The "What is it?" exhibit challenges visitors to identify the name and use of gadgets that many Iowan great-grandparents would have known. Credit: Julia McGuire, Des Moines Frugal Family Examiner
- The "What is it?" exhibit challenges visitors to identify the name and use of gadgets that many Iowan great-grandparents would have known.
- Bill Wagner, local historic architect, restored this scale house and used it as his home office and studio before the museum received it.
- Dallas County life included frugality -- someone saved an eighty-five pound ball of string.
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