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...
Welch, Adonijah Strong, 1821-1889; Presidents' papers; Iowa State University presidents; Presidents' family relationships
Box 1, Folder 5: Contains correspondence about members of Adonijah and Mary Welch's family, correspondence by descendents, obituaries, and brief histories. Correspondents primarily include A. B. Shaw and Winifred Dudley Shaw.
Exploration; Travel; Central America; Panama; Darien
Box 1: folder 9, Source Material Relating to Richard A. Tewkesbury’s trips to the Darien in 1939 and 1940. Tewkesbury's published writings included in these materials are: “There’s Drama In Mexico”; “An Explorer Sets Forth”; “Darien...
Farm Equipment; Agriculture; Iowa State University;
Drawn farm machinery lined up for exhibit. A front row contains wind mill motors. A steam engine sits at the rear of the assembled machinery. A man stands in the second row with his hand on a two-bottom plow. There is a white fence in the rear of...
Farm Equipment; Agriculture; Iowa State University;
A driver on a steel-wheeled tractor pulling a plow toward the horizon through an unplowed field. Two automobiles are in the field in the far left distance. Another tractor is in the far right distance. A tree line on the horizon defines the edge of...
Farm Equipment; Agriculture; Iowa State University;
A front view of an Oliver tractor with a mounted cultivator stradling two rows of corn. The driver, wearing a pith helmet, is closely watching the front wheels of the tractor.
Farm Equipment; Agriculture; Iowa State University;
A two-horse team hitched to a Bettendorf utility wagon. The driver and a child are posing in the driver's seat. The photograph was taken in the fall of 1904, probably on Excursion Day.
Welch, Mary B. (Mary Beaumont), 1840-1923 ; Welch, Adonijah Strong, 1821-1889 ; Families
Contains information on the Welch and Shaw families including Anna Shaw (daugher of Mary Welch), Anna Shaw's husband A. B. Shaw, and Lily Beaumont Graham (Mary Welch's sister).
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.
Farm Equipment; Agriculture; Iowa State University;
Image of a Caterpillar Fifteen in second speed listing and planting three rows of corn with a Rock Island Three-Row Lister, Milan, Ill. The photograph was taken in July 1930.
Clothing and dress; Costume; Fashion; Fashion Plates; Fashion Illustrations
Two day dresses. The left dress shows a seamed and decorated bodice coming to a point at the waist, overhanging the shoulders are wide strips of fabric, the pagoda sleeves are extremely wide and 3/4 length with a lace blouse underneath, a lace...
Clothing and dress; Costume; Fashion; Fashion Plates; Fashion Illustrations
Day dresses for a woman, baby, and child, illustrate the wide, full silhouette. The woman is wearing a fitted bodice with lace collar; long, full sleeves, a huge skirt, and a lace cap. Both children are wearing extremely full dresses, decorated...
Farm Equipment; Agriculture; Iowa State University;
A tractor driver and Iowa State Professor J.B. Davidson looking at an Iowa integrating and recording traction dynamometer, mounted on the linkage between the tractor and the piece of farm machinery being pulled. The farm tractor has rubber tires....
Farm Equipment; Agriculture; Iowa State University;
A horse-drawn farm freight wagon full of husked corn on a gravel road. Seen from behind, the driver has turned to look at the camera. The rubber-tired wagon is being pulled by a two-horse team.The background countryside suggests very late fall or...
