Story County (Iowa); History; Biography; Iowa Agricultural College
Biographical and historical memoirs of Story County, Iowa. Comprising a condensed history of the state, a number of biographies of distinguished citizens of the same, a descriptive history of the county named herein, and numerous selected...
The History of Dubuque County, Iowa, Containing a History of the County, its Cities, Towns, &
Biographical Sketches of Citizens, War Record of its Volunteers in the late Rebellion, General and Local Statistics, Portraits of Early Settlers and...
Exploration; Travel; Central America; Panama; Darien
Box 1: folder 10, Source Material Relating to Richard A. Tewkesbury’s trips to the Darien in 1939 and 1940. Contains excerpts from various periodicals and publications highlighting Tewkesbury and his expeditions.
Volume 7, Bulletins 89-101. (89) Partial Correlation Analysis of Farm Organization and Management Data from Warren Country, Iowa; (90) Citric Acid Content of Milk; (91) Certain Physical and Chemical Changes of Grimes Applies During Ripening and...
Billerica Improvement Association, lecture word slide #10: ""The 60 miles of roads in the towns 16000 acres before 1900 cost $92. per mile per year to maintain. Now 50 miles of additional new roads are required for 19 new subdivisions. They...
Volume 9, Bulletins 114-121. (114) Soybean Inoculation Studies; (115) Soggy Breakdown of Apples and Its Control by Storage Temperature; (116) Apple Breeding: A Study of Jonathan Crosses; (117) Bacteriological Studies on Sulfid Spoilage of Canned...
Volume 22, Bulletins 242-250. (242) Physical and Chemical Characteristics of Lards and Other Fats in Relation to Their Culinary Value: I. Shortening value in Pastry and Cookies; (243) Study of Drouth Resistance in Inbred Strains of Sweet Corn Zea...
Compiled and written by the Iowa Writers' program of the Work Projects Administration for the state of Iowa. Sponsored by county superintendent of schools, Monroe county.
Barker, Celestia Lee, 1846- ; Barker, William B ; Cookery, American -- Midwestern style ; Farm life -- Iowa ; Home economics ; Religious education -- Iowa ; Rural families ; Women in agriculture ; Women teachers -- Iowa ; Iowa -- History -- Civil...
The majority of entries were written during the Civil War and describe Lee's work on the family farm, attending religious services, visiting family throughout central Iowa, social activities, and her beaux. She also describes her training to be a...
Robertson, James, Iowa soldier ; United States. Army. Iowa Infantry Regiment, 8th (1861-1865). Company C ; United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Personal narratives ; Diaries
James Robertson was a native of Clifton, Iowa, in Louisa County. He was a private in Company C, 8th Iowa Infantry, was taken prisoner at the battle of Shiloh and hospitalized in Nashville, Tennessee's University Hospital. The diary details his...
Welch, Mary B. (Mary Beaumont), 1840-1923 ; Iowa Agricultural College and Model Farm
Contains biographical information including an article from the Alumnus, radio address by Ralph K. Bliss, and memorials given by various individuals including O. H. Cessna, President Raymond A. Pearson, and Herman Knapp,
