Welch, Mary B. (Mary Beaumont), 1840-1923 ; Iowa Agricultural College and Model Farm ; Iowa State College Department of Domestic Economy ; Home economics ; Women -- Education ; Technical education
Topics include subjects taught in domestic economy courses, measuring the work of women in the home, plea for the higher education of cooks, and the legitimacy of teaching domestic economy.
White ribbon with "The World's Congress of 1893" "Department of Women's Progress" "Member's Badge" inscribed in gold. The bottom of the ribbon is frayed. The ribbon is from the World's Congress of Representative Women, which was held in May 1893...
Chemistry; Laboratory; Equipment; Iowa State University;
A female student in a white lab coat using a Worburg apparatus. The Worburg apparatus was widely used in biochemical and biological research for measuring rates of reaction in which gases are involved. The student is noting readings in a lab record...
Iowa State University; Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering Dept.; Woodworking
A man is tightening a screw on a saw horse type object that he is constructing upon a work bench. An instructor looks on while other students work on projects in the background.
A chemistry class for women. A notation on the reverse reads: ""2nd Floor-East--Room now a corridor leading into PSRR (Physical Science Reading Room) on second floor of O & L Bldg. (Office & Lab Building). Class taught by Nellie Naylor."" Naylor, a...
Farm Equipment; Agriculture; Iowa State University;
A two horse team hitched to a wagon bed on which has been built an open framing covered with poultry wire, and in which are six sheep and a man shearing one of the sheep. Temporary signs on the wagon are turned except for one, which reads...
Small pin in the shape of a flag. Front has white background inscribed with "VROUWEN KIESRECHT" in gold. Vrouwenkiesrecht translates from Dutch to "Woman Suffrage" in English.
Farm Equipment; Agriculture; Iowa State University;
A general utility wagon hitched to a coop. A crate filled with white chickens is balanced on the wagon. A workman is standing next to the wagon and looking into the crate. Farm utility buildings are in the background.
Welch, Adonijah Strong, 1821-1889; Speeches; Presidents' papers; Iowa State University presidents; Fairs; Agricultural education
Box 3, Folder 1: A speech given by Welch to the "Farmers of Delaware County" who helped organize their county fair. Welch speaks of the importance of agricultural education and practical farming. He discusses the value of fairs, compares fairs to...
Welch, Adonijah Strong, 1821-1889; Speeches; Presidents' papers; Iowa State University presidents; Education; Technical education; Agricultural education
Box 2, Folder 18: A speech given by Welch about the need for higher education to concentrate more on practical, scientific education rather than the disciplines traditionally studied in the past. (Missing pages 1, 18-19, 21, 54, 83-84,93)
Welch, Adonijah Strong, 1821-1889; speeches; presidents' papers; Iowa State University presidents; fairs; agricultural exhibitions; breeding value; contest judging
Box 2, Folder 11: A speech given by Welch at an agricultural fair. He discusses his opinion that animal competitions should be judged by the value of the animal to the world and not the price of the animal to the farmer. He argues that fairs...
