diff --git a/pandas/core/frame.py b/pandas/core/frame.py
index 81d5c112885ec..288ff26b14bc4 100644
--- a/pandas/core/frame.py
+++ b/pandas/core/frame.py
@@ -778,14 +778,50 @@ def style(self):
         return Styler(self)
 
     def iteritems(self):
-        """
+        r"""
         Iterator over (column name, Series) pairs.
 
-        See also
+        Iterates over the DataFrame columns, returning a tuple with the column name
+        and the content as a Series.
+
+        Yields
+        ------
+        label : object
+            The column names for the DataFrame being iterated over.
+        content : Series
+            The column entries belonging to each label, as a Series.
+
+        See Also
         --------
-        iterrows : Iterate over DataFrame rows as (index, Series) pairs.
-        itertuples : Iterate over DataFrame rows as namedtuples of the values.
+        DataFrame.iterrows : Iterate over DataFrame rows as (index, Series) pairs.
+        DataFrame.itertuples : Iterate over DataFrame rows as namedtuples of the values.
 
+        Examples
+        --------
+        >>> df = pd.DataFrame({'species': ['bear', 'bear', 'marsupial'],
+        ...                   'population': [1864, 22000, 80000]},
+        ...                   index=['panda', 'polar', 'koala'])
+        >>> df
+                species   population
+        panda 	bear 	  1864
+        polar 	bear 	  22000
+        koala 	marsupial 80000
+        >>> for label, content in df.iteritems():
+        ...     print('label:', label)
+        ...     print('content:', content, sep='\n')
+        ...
+        label: species
+        content:
+        panda         bear
+        polar         bear
+        koala    marsupial
+        Name: species, dtype: object
+        label: population
+        content:
+        panda     1864
+        polar    22000
+        koala    80000
+        Name: population, dtype: int64
         """
         if self.columns.is_unique and hasattr(self, '_item_cache'):
             for k in self.columns: