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.
Welch, Adonijah Strong, 1821-1889; Presidents' papers; Iowa State University presidents
Box 1, Folder 6: Contains remembrances of Welch and Iowa State and correspondence discussing Welch. Correspondents include Louis Pammel and Earle Ross.
Welch, Adonijah Strong, 1821-1889; Iowa State University presidents; Presidents' papers; Speeches
Box 1, Folder 21: Welch discusses the advances of science, its relation to religion, qualities required of citizens, and the transitions society was experiencing at that time.
Welch, Adonijah Strong, 1821-1889; speeches; Moral education; Moral development; Presidents' papers; Iowa State University presidents; Personal morality; Personality development
Box 2, Folder 5: A speech given by Welch about the importance of education on the development of moral character.
Welch, Mary B. (Mary Beaumont), 1840-1923 ; Women -- Education ; Women -- Social aspects ; Home economics ; Housekeeping ; Housewives ; Women -- Suffrage
Lecture read before women's clubs in Los Angeles, California. Discusses the importance of a woman's role in the home, how a woman's education prepares her for life, how education has helped the women's suffrage movement, and the importance of...
Exploration; Travel; Central America; Panama; Darien
Box 1: folder 7, Source Material Relating to Richard A. Tewkesbury’s trips to the Darien in 1939 and 1940. Contains Tewkesbury’s unpublished writings which consist of his day by day notes of his trek through the Darien from July 6 to August...
Exploration; Travel; Central America; Panama; Darien
Box 1: folder 8, Source Material Relating to Richard A. Tewkesbury’s trips to the Darien in 1939 and 1940. Contains Tewkesbury’s unpublished writings which consist of his diary and day by day notes of his second trip through the Darien from...
Exploration; Travel; Central America; Panama; Darien
Box 1: folder 13, Source Material Relating to Richard A. Tewkesbury’s trips to the Darien in 1939 and 1940. Contains informational materials collected on the Indians of the Darien.
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.
Clothing and dress; Costume; Fashion; Fashion Plates; Fashion Illustrations
Day and evening dresses all with full, hoop skirts. The first woman is wearing a burnoose over her dress. The second has a dagged, shoulder cape over her long sleeved, fitted bodice; a long sash tied around her waist with a bow in back; a layered...
Clothing and dress; Costume; Fashion; Fashion Plates; Fashion Illustrations
Five day dresses with bustle skirts with multiple rows of ruffle at hem and flounced overskirts, fitted bodices with coat or pagoda sleeves, fitted overcoats with fur trim, high necklines. Small hats sit on top of head, trimmed with feathers and...
Clothing and dress; Costume; Fashion; Fashion Plates; Fashion Illustrations
Five day dresses, small bustles, overskirts trimmed with embroidery on three, fitted jacket style bodices with lapels and high band collars on four, waists curve to a point in front, leg-of-mutton sleeves either full or 3/4 length with gloves, hats...
Clothing and dress; Costume; Fashion; Fashion Plates; Fashion Illustrations
Day dresses for different generations. The woman's dress consists of a simple, fitted bodice with a fold-over collar, bow; long, fitted sleeves with cuffs and shoulder extensions, a belted waist, and a full skirt. The dress has an asymmetrical...
Home of George Wourms Pascal and his wife Talitha Cumi Cotton Pascal, parents of Descartes Pascal. Pascal's boyhood home was located near Grand Mound, Iowa. A man in the foreground of the picture is photographing a young standing child.
