Curtiss-Wright Engineering Cadettes, 1941-1945; Department of Military Science; Iowa State University; Women in Science and Engineering; World War II
On the blackboard is the organization for one of the laboratory periods. The cut and formed parts are on the table for inspection before assembling begins. Two cadettes are standing to the left of the blackboard and two are seated on a table to the...
Curtiss-Wright Engineering Cadettes, 1941-1945; Department of Military Science; Iowa State University; Women in Science and Engineering; World War II
Betty Belle Gardner (Parsons, Kansas) is getting an advance taste of work in the wind tunnel in the Aeronautical Laboratory. She is about to replace a wing section in the mouth of the tunnel with a model transport plane.
Curtiss-Wright Engineering Cadettes, 1941-1945; Department of Military Science; Iowa State University; Women in Science and Engineering; World War II
Betty Cue, a stenographer at the Memorial Union, is seated showing a Curtiss P-40 Warhawk model plane to a cadette who is sitting on the floor in front of a fireplace. The plane has a wood framework with a paper exterior with a wind up, rubber-band...
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...
Billerica Improvement Association, lecture word slide #13: ""The three following slides show how a plain, bare house can be draped by vines and surrounded by flowering plants at an original cost that need not exceed $100.""
Curtiss Hall; Agriculture Hall; Iowa State University;
Curtiss Hall and the front entryway with its stairs, Ionic columns, and ornamental lamps. A flag is flying above the building. Trees are on either side of the building, and a treeless lawn stretches out in front of it.
Curtiss Hall; Agriculture Hall; Iowa State University;
This photo shows the front entryway to Curtiss Hall with its Ionic columns, stairs, and ornamental lamps. Three men and three women are ascending or descending the stairs; four men and one woman are either sitting by or leaning up against the...
Curtiss-Wright Engineering Cadettes, 1941-1945; Department of Military Science; Iowa State University; Women in Science and Engineering; World War II
Four cadettes surround a workbench displaying the Guerin (rubber) embossing die, cupping die, dimpling die, drill jigs, templates, soldering jigs, forming blocks and standard hand tools.
The Iowa State University Veterinarian (1938-2001) was the official publication of the Iowa State University Student Chapter of the American Veterinary Medical Association. The journal was the first veterinary student publication in the country...
Cotton; Okra; Carver, George Washington, 1864?-1943
July 18, 1914
Prof. Geo. Carver,
Tuskegee, Alabama.
Dear Professor Carver:
I wish you could employ someone for me to collect and press about 100 specimens of cotton with flowers and bolls. I think you had better employ the person at the rate of 15...
E.F. Goss, Associate Professor of Dairy Industries at Iowa State College (University) is shown making cottage cheese in a cheese vat in this photograph, taken July 16, 1930, The curd has been heated slowly to above 100 degrees F. until it will...
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...
Bussey, Cyrus, 1833-1915 ; United States. Army. Iowa Cavalry Regiment, 3rd (1861-1865) ; Pea Ridge, Battle of, Ark., 1862 ; Vicksburg (Miss.) -- History -- Siege, 1863 ; United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Personal narratives
Cyrus Bussey details his exploits as an officer with the Iowa Cavalry. Bussey refers to himself in the third person in this laudatory discussion of his experiences in the Army, including his involvement in the Battles of Pea Ridge and Vicksburg, as...
