The west side of the Campanile. The view is relatively close from below. A leafless deciduous tree is on the left of the tower and a conifer on the right of the tower. Cables lead down from the belfry to the ground. In the spring of 1956 an...
The windows and bushes at the Alpha Gamma Delta, Rho Chapter house are decorated to depict a winter scene. Two Kansas Jayhawk figures are sitting among the frozen landscape. A banner reads, ""Freeze 'em out.""
The wrap around porch, second floor dormer and southern chimney are all visible in this southeastern view of the Knoll. The house is surrounded by trees and the lawn.
The year 1923 is engraved above the doorway of the east entrance to the library. The tower peaks of Margaret Hall are reflected in the glass window above the entrance.
These administrative records, 1838-1860, (originally bound together in a volume) document the earliest activities of the American Statistical Association. Included are letters of acceptance from early ASA members as well as the handwritten minutes...
These Board of Directors’ records, 1839-1872, include handwritten minutes for meetings of the Association. The information includes attendance, officer and committee lists, presentations, proposals for membership, and resolutions.
Curtiss-Wright Engineering Cadettes, 1941-1945; Department of Military Science; Iowa State University; Women in Science and Engineering; World War II
These cadettes with their hair wrapped in a turban and wearing eye protection, are working on the tail of a wrecked plane in the Welding Laboratory of the Mechanical Engineering Building. One of the projects for the five-week laboratory course was...
Iowa State University; Iowa Agriculture and Home Economics Experiment Station; Hybrid corn; Guatemala
These Iowa State College experts are discussing some of the hybrids made on Guatemalan corns grown on the Agricultural Experiment Station plots. They are, left to right, Dr. I.J. Johnson, head of Farm Crops sub-section; Dr. I.E. Melhus, Director of...
Iowa State University; Dept. of Chemical and Biological Engineering; Agricultural wastes.
These two rotating cylinder drums are operated by pulleys. On each drum is a spigot and each has a rectangular pan underneath. The drum on the left is smaller than the one on the right.
Thick ivy almost obscures the north front entryway of the Knoll. Trees flank the right and left sides of the building and bushes surround the wrap-around porch.
This 1937 photograph shows the front (north) of the Memorial Union, viewed from across the fountain. The fountain has several water jets going upward. A group of several people is standing on the steps in front of the entrance to Gold Star Hall....
This 1938 image taken from north and only slightly west of the Gold Star Hall (front) entrance to the Memorial Union has foreground an unpaved road that crosses in front of the fountain and defines the Union's property. A lamppost and a No Parking...
Memorial Union; Four Seasons Fountain; Petersen, Christian, 1885-1961; Iowa State University;
This 1941 image is a close-up of two of the figures, Winter and Fall, in the Four Seasons Fountain which is located in front (north) of the entrance to the Memorial Union's Gold Star Hall. The Four Seasons Fountain, which includes four Native...
This 1941 photograph is of the west side of the Memorial Union, seen from across Lake LaVerne. Several cars are parked and people are walking along a road between the lake and the Union. Plantings partially obscure the lower story of the Union, but...
This 1941 photograph shows a close view of the Four Seasons Fountain in the front (north) of the Memorial Union. The Four Seasons Fountain, which includes four Native American female figures, each representing one of the four seasons, is by...
This 1944 photograph of the Memorial Union's west side shows mainly the roof lines, chimneys, pediments, a balcony around a window above the entrance, and the windows on the upper floors. Lake LaVerne is in the foreground, and plantings and trees...
This 1950 photograph of the Memorial Union shows the excavated construction area for what will become the west terrace. A new foundation wall is near the center. A large stack of bricks is in the foreground and a crane, steel framework for the...
