Forgotten Midwest collects vintage photographs and lost stories from across the American Midwest — main streets, farms, factories, floods, and front porches.
Every photograph comes from a public archive — the Library of Congress, the National Archives, Wikimedia Commons, and state and university collections — and is credited to its source. The facts in each story come from the archive record itself.
Forgotten Midwest is an independent history project. Photographs are public domain unless otherwise noted.