Local and Family History Collection

In collaboration with Fortepan Iowa at the University of Northern Iowa, the Waverly Historical Photograph Collection (WHPC) is available for viewing in digital format. Fortepan Iowa photos are free to use under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike license (CC-BY-SA 4.0). You must always attribute every Fortepan Iowa photograph you use. Photographs and local historical resources can be found at the Waverly Public Library.

Check out our FotoStories:    Waverly's Palace Theater    One Building, Three Businesses

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The Waverly Public Library has a number of local history resources in the Local and Family History (LFH) section of our collection. The following is a brief list of the contents of our collection.

• Digitized newspaper collection
• Newspaper Archive database (in-library use only)
• Waverly Phoenix (German-language newspaper)
• Newspaper Database Research Resource
• Annals of Iowa - PDF issues through State Historical Society of Iowa
• The Palimpsest - PDF issues through State Historical Society of Iowa
• Iowa Naturalists Publications
• Iowa Department of Cultural Affairs Arts Directories
• Local Obituaries and Burial Records
• Bremer County Genealogy and History Resources
• Waverly Newspapers from 1856 - 2013 on microfilm
• Local Church Records
• Local Historic Photos
• Bremer County and Iowa Military Service Records
• Bremer County Probate Records
• Iowa History Resources
• Books by Iowa authors

Ask any local history question and we'll do our best to answer it!

Related Links:

• Bremer County Genealogy
• Iowa Official Register Archive