This 1957 photograph taken from the terrace is of the beginning excavations for what will be the bookstore and Sun Room in the Memorial Union. A workman in a skid shovel with the shovel full of dirt and raised high waits and looks towards a dump...
Iowa State University; University Library; students
Students are working at computer stations in the main hall of the library, to the south of the circulation desk. The view is taken from the central circular staircase.
Iowa State University; University Library; students
Iowa State College students Virginia Smith (left), West Liberty, and Electa Groszkruger, Belle Plaine. examine the famous ""counterfeit"" corn ear. Smith is a home economics senior, and Miss Groszkruger a sophomore in home economics education.
Catt Hall; Botany Hall; Greenhouse; Iowa State University;
The front of Catt Hall with the lawn and sidewalk in the foreground. Several groups of individuals in warm weather clothing are walking on the sidewalk. The Greenhouses are barely visible in the background.
Catt Hall; Botany Hall; Greenhouse; Iowa State University;
The front and side of Catt Hall. The greenhouse can also be seen through the trees. In the foreground, individuals can be seen walking along the sidewalk
Several students walking along a path leading away from Catt Hall, which can be seen in the background. The greenhouse is directly to the right of Catt Hall.
A figure reminiscent of Fearless Fosdick from the Li'l Abner comic strip runs towards a buffalo dressed in football gear. Both Fosdick and the buffalo point guns at each other.
The Spinney House lawn display is modeled on room containing an easy chair and brick fire place. Above the fireplace is rear and tail of a buffalo is mounted like a hunting trophy. On the fireplace mantle are two footballs labeled 54 and 26. One...
A figure representing football coach, Vince DiFrancesca is standing near a stone wall. Several football player figures are trying with little success to climb over or around the wall.
This lawn display won second place award in the Men's Residence Division for 1954. It features a two gravestones in the ""Homecoming Hill Cemetery."" The smaller gravestone is labeled, "" 1953 Missouri passed on 13-6"" in reference to the...
Three individuals are serving themselves donuts and beverages from a table at a Homecoming event. The table consists of a flat board resting on sawhorses.
This 1954 photograph shows the west side of the Memorial Union from across Lake LaVerne. Only the tallest parts of the Union are visible through the thick foliage and trees that surround the lake. One white swan is standing in the shallows, and...
