Welch, Adonijah Strong, 1821-1889; Welch, Mary B. (Mary Beaumont), 1840-1923; Stanton, Edgar Williams, 1850-1920; Stanton, Margaret MacDonald; Knapp, Seaman Ashahel, 1833-1911; Iowa Agricultural College and Model Farm; Travelers - Europe;...
Written by Mary and Adonijah Welch to Margaret and Edgar Stanton while the Welches were on their second trip to Europe after Welch resigned from the presidency. The letters mention family matters, the Board of Trustees and the dissension against...
Iowa State University; Iowa Agriculture and Home Economics Experiment Station
With a corn crib and small electrical tower in the foreground, a cow peers out the door of the barn in the background on this Agriculture Experiment Station farm. A pig and horse are near the barn, and pigs are grazing in the snow on a hill in...
Welch, Mary B. (Mary Beaumont), 1840-1923 ; Iowa Agricultural College and Model Farm ; Iowa State College Department of Domestic Economy ; Home economics ; Courtesy ; United States -- Social life and customs ; lecture notes
Welch discusses definitions of politeness, people's perceptions of American society, examples of civility towards women, the genuineness of American politeness, and compares Americam courtesy to that in other countries.
Iowa State University; Iowa Agriculture and Home Economics Experiment Station
Walter G. Lovely, Professor of Agricultural Engineering, and Professor in Charge of Experiment Station Agriculture Research Support Services, is shown in this portrait.
Iowa State University; Iowa Agriculture and Home Economics Experiment Station; Silos; Silage
Using a pitchfork, a worker spreads ensilage from a large wooden wheeled cart onto a pit silo. Other farm machinery, fences and buildings are in the background.
Iowa State University; Iowa Agriculture and Home Economics Experiment Station; Silos; Silage
Two workers are setting up the walls for a temporary circular silo to store silage. The bin is already partially filled. A barn and another silo are in the background.
Iowa State University; Iowa Agriculture and Home Economics Experiment Station; Silos; Silage
Two workers are filling a temporary silo. One man is using a pitchfork, while the other maneuvers a silage unloader in order to fill the silo evenly. A tractor and car are near the silo. In the background cattle graze near the farm's...
Two technicians in the glass lab of the Chemistry Department. One technician is working with a torch and tubes of glass at a worktable, on which are a lighter, glass tubes, rubber stoppers and various tools.The other technician is standing in the...
Iowa State University; Iowa Agriculture and Home Economics Experiment Station
Two snowy fields are separated by a barbed wire fence. A farm house, barn and other buildings are nestled near some tree and snow covered hills in the distance.
Iowa State University; Iowa Agriculture and Home Economics Experiment Station; Swine
Two researchers in white lab coats take measurements with equipment in a field. One researcher monitors gauges connected to a machine and board by wires, while the other researcher studies an object on the connected board. Pigs and their housing...
Iowa State University; Iowa Agriculture and Home Economics Experiment Station; Swine
Two researchers in white lab coats examine an object in a laboratory that also contains a scale, a jar full of stoppered and labeled vials, and a wood and glass piece of equipment. In the inset photo, a man kneels while one baby pig comes to see...
Iowa State University; Iowa Agriculture and Home Economics Experiment Station; Farm equipment
Two men who look dirty from their hard work stand talking by a farm machine, perhaps a hay baler, with two one-story farm buildings in the background with trees. Both men wear hats and glasses, and the older man wears overalls.
Iowa State University; Iowa Agriculture and Home Economics Experiment Station
Two men stand by waist-high wire fence while they talk, each with one hand on the fence and the other hand in his pocket. A wooden barn and trees are in the background.
Farm Equipment; Agriculture; Iowa State University;
Two Ford tractors linked together as a single drivable unit and hitched to a five bottom plow. The machinery is sited in front of Davidson Hall. Ten men are looking at the machinery, another is sitting in the driving seat of the power unit. Another...
Welch, Mary B. (Mary Beaumont), 1840-1923 ; Iowa Agricultural College and Model Farm ; Iowa State College Department of Domestic Economy ; Home economics ; Women -- Education ; Technical education
Topics include subjects taught in domestic economy courses, measuring the work of women in the home, plea for the higher education of cooks, and the legitimacy of teaching domestic economy.
Farm Equipment; Agriculture; Iowa State University;
Three men working on a tractor-drawn Case hay baler in the foreground. A harvested hay field can be seen behind the baler. Residential housing across a gravel road is in the background.
Iowa State University; Iowa Agriculture and Home Economics Experiment Station
Thomas A. Fretz, Associate Dean of the College of Agriculture and Associate Director of the Agriculture and Home Economics Experiment Station, is shown in this portrait taken in 1989.
