Farm Equipment; Agriculture; Iowa State University;
An Oliver Row Crop 70 tractor with a mounted cultivator and a two- hopper planter hitched behind. The set up is designed for one operation seedbed preparation and planting. The tractor is without a driver but stopped in mid-field. Cultivated fields...
Welch, Adonijah Strong, 1821-1889; Presidents' papers; Iowa State University; Iowa Agricultural College and Model Farm; Speeches; Presidential inauguration, 1869
Box 1, Folder 10: In addition to President Welch's inaugural address, speakers include John Scott (Lieutenant Governor ), Benjamin F. Gue (President of the Board of Trustees), and (Norton?) Townshend. Included is the poem ""The Ideal Farmer and...
Box 1, Folder 13: Speech given to the State Horticultural Society in which Welch describes the campus in 1869, and how the acres of wild prairie were transformed into a planned campus landscape. He primarily describes building roads and planting...
Welch, Adonijah Strong, 1821-1889; Iowa State University presidents; Iowa Agricultural College and Model Farm; Presidents' papers; Speeches; Presidential inauguration, 1869; State universities and colleges; Technical education; Professional...
Box 1, Folder 18: Speech given by Welch at the State Agricultural College (now Iowa State) inauguration. Welch discusses the opening of the new institution, the importance of the college's focus on industrial and practical education, and the...
Farm Equipment; Agriculture; Iowa State University;
Dale Wollsoncroft demonstrating plow adjustment at a training event in State Center, Iowa, in the spring of 1949. A crowd of men is gathered around an instructor who is kneeling on the ground at the front end of a plow that is in turn connected to...
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...
Clothing and dress; Costume; Fashion; Fashion Plates; Fashion Illustrations
Five day dresses with bustles and small trains, multiple flounced and ruffled overskirts, sashes at waist with large ribbons at center back enhancing the bustles, extensive use of lace trim all over dresses and in hair; coat sleeves with lace,...
Clothing and dress; Costume; Fashion; Fashion Plates; Fashion Illustrations
Five day dresses with elliptical hoop skirts with small trains and multiple ruffled and flounced overskirts, sashes just above waistline with small bows or ribbon rosettes, all have long sleeves, high necklines, and all dresses are heavily trimmed....
Four female students in white lab coats conducting an experiment in a chemistry laboratory. Two of the students are at the counter and two are to the rear watching while taking notes.
Chemistry; Laboratory; Equipment; Iowa State University;
Frank Janssen, a graduate student in chemistry, with a Craig Liquid Extraction Apparatus. This apparatus, invented by Dr. Lyman Craig, an Iowa State alumnus, was widely used for separating medicinal and other biologically important materials. It...
G. F. Hanna, a graduate student in the Department of Chemistry and a research fellow of the Agricultural Experiment Station, demonstrating the refrigerated bath in the refrigerated laboratory. The room was maintained at a temperature just above...
G. F. Hanna, a graduate student in the Department of Chemistry and a research fellow of the Agricultural Experiment Station, showing the refrigerated super centrifuge along with the refrigerated bath. The room was maintained at a temperature just...
H. Frederick Hollenbeck and Frances Hiltrop working with models of complex crystals. In addition to a large model in the foreground there are models shelved behind them.
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.
Jim Weiher at the dry box (a shielded laboratory chemical containment hood), which was used to perform chemical operations in a controlled atmosphere. Weiher is seated, with his arms inserted through portals into the inner chamber which can be...
Men and women in a college chemistry laboratory. An adjoining laboratory, full of students, can be seen through a double arched doorway. A female student in the foreground appears to be wearing one of the men's hats.
Agriculture; Chemistry; Laboratory; Iowa State University;
Nine men in the agricultural chemistry laboratory. The caption on the reverse reads:""Man on extreme right is T.W. Mast '97; next to him is Harry Scurr '98."" The lower right corner of the photograph is missing.
Clothing and dress; Costume; Fashion; Fashion Plates; Fashion Illustrations
One formal day and a wedding dress both with bustle skirts and multiple flounced and ruffled overskirts, sashes at waist, coat sleeves. Bride has a long train and a full length veil. Attendant has a bonnet trimmed with flowers and ribbons....
Professor F. E. Brown observing a chemistry student in the lab. The student is using a dropper to add liquid to a test tube. Three other students are working in the background.
