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![Hoover Heads](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/web/20121018080515im_/http://hoover.archives.gov/images/indexpage_images/HooverHeadsTitle.jpg)
New pages featuring little known Hoover facts
![The Great Famine](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/web/20121018080515im_/http://hoover.archives.gov/images/indexpage_images/famine_film_landing.jpg)
The American Experience:
The Great Famine
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Hoover Library & Museum Orientation film
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Celebrating 50 Years!
![Herbert Hoover and Harry Truman at the dedication of the Hoover Presidential Library-Museum, August 10, 1962.](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/web/20121018080515im_/http://hoover.archives.gov/images/indexpage_images/1962-A46A.jpg)
Herbert Hoover and Harry Truman at the dedication of the Herbert Hoover Presidential Library-Museum, August 10, 1962.
The Hoover Library & Museum enables visitors to experience for themselves the many sides of Iowa's only president:
- The permanent galleries begin with Hoover's boyhood in Iowa and continue on to the Waldorf Towers in New York where he spent the final years of his life.
- The Quarton Gallery offers exciting temporary exhibits relating to American history.
- In the Hoover Library people of all ages can learn about President Hoover's life and career. Using manuscripts, photographs and oral histories, one can learn the stories of our history.
![](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/web/20121018080515im_/http://hoover.archives.gov/images/1pixelclear.gif) ![Herbert Hoover Presidential Library-Museum](images/indexpage_images/LibraryAutumn.jpg)
The Hoover Museum sits on the grounds of the Herbert Hoover National Historic Site where visitors can tour:
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Mr. Hoover's birthplace cottage
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a blacksmith shop
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Quaker Meeting house
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the gravesite of Mr. and Mrs. Hoover
![Herbert Hoover Birthplace Cottage](images/indexpage_images/BirthHorizentalAutumn09.jpg)
Herbert Hoover's Birthplace Cottage
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![Herbert Hoover Gravesite](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/web/20121018080515im_/http://hoover.archives.gov/images/indexpage_images/Gravesite-summer.jpg)
Herbert and Lou Henry Hoover's Gravesite
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News and Events |
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Creating the Legacy, Dining with the President, and Ideas of Lincoln and Hoover- all on display to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Hoover Library-Museum. April 21 - October 28 |
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In Memoriam of President Hoover, October 20, 1:00 p.m.
Join the National Park Service for a program iIn remembrance of President Hoover's death. |
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![Herbert Hoover Pumpkin](images/indexpage_images/Hoover-Pumkin.jpg) |
Veteran's Day, November 11, 2012, 1:00 p.m.
The African American Museum of Iowa will present a program on Black Iowa Veterans, followed by a showing of the film, Red Tails at 2:30. |
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A Cowboy Christmas
November 17, 2012 - January 2, 2013 |
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America's Darling, A Documentary
November 18, 2012, 2:00 pm
A documentary about Ding Darling's achievements, particularly his leadership in conservation. Director Sam Koltinsky will be here to make introductory comments and to answer questions following the presentation. |
Christmas Past Celebration November 30 - December 2Throughout West Branch
A weekend of music, horse-drawn rides, shopping and holiday entertainment. |
![Horse-drawn rides through the Hoover National Park.](images/indexpage_images/horse-rides.jpg) |
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