A view of the Water Tower construction site on March 18, 1897. Five of the construction crew members are sitting or standing on top of the first tier of support girders. Old Main and Chemistry Hall are among the buildings in the background.
Warren B. Kuhn, Dean of the Library, is showing a reel of microfilm. Boxes of microfilm, an envelope of microfiche, and pam boxes with micro-opaques are displayed on the book truck.
Farm Equipment; Agriculture; Iowa State University;
A two horse team hitched to a wagon bed on which has been built an open framing covered with poultry wire, and in which are six sheep and a man shearing one of the sheep. Temporary signs on the wagon are turned except for one, which reads...
Iowa State University; Dept. of Chemical and Biological Engineering; clay rings for sewage treatment filters
Chemical Engineering Professor W.E. Galligan, Ralph H. Suebbers, (graduate student) and Dr. Max Levine (Bacteriology) examine clay rings (produced in Ceramic Engineering Laboratory) for sewage-treatment filters as part of a general station study).
One page from the one millionth volume added to the Iowa State University Library collection is shown in this close-up. The page reads Vita di Lionardo da Vinci descritta daRafaelle du Fresne.
Iowa State University; University Library; 2nd Addition
Students at study carrels along the wall of one of the newly completed 2nd Addition tiers in the library, while the shelves are in the process of being filled and labeled with call number ranges.
The concrete foundation and two levels of the 1st addition are under construction. Vertical rebars and wooden planks are sticking up from the foundation.
Workmen have started work on the foundation for the 1st addition. Vertical rebars are sticking out of the foundation. A workman is operating a crane owned by Thomas Construction Company to lift a drum-shaped object. The workmens' office, two...
The four floors are visible in this view of the 3rd addition library construction. A small crane and bull dozer are on the right. Scaffolding is in place alongside the building.
Men are working on the construction site for the 1st addition in this view from the parking lot filled with late 1950 vehicles. The rotunda entrance is beginning to take shape. A war surplus building, Number ""N"", appears on the far left. It was...
