Clothing and dress; Costume; Fashion; Fashion Plates; Fashion Illustrations
Wedding day dresses, showing heavily decorated bodices with lace chemisettes and overlays, still emphasizing a small waist. Wedding dress has jewel neckline, long sleeves with ruffle cuffs, a triple layered full skirt, and a full length veil...
Welch, Adonijah Strong, 1821-1889; presidents' papers; Iowa State University presidents; College majors; Curriculum development; Greek (classical); Latin; Mathematics; Technical education; University of Michigan
Box 2, Folder 13: A speech given by Welch when he received a L. L. D. (Doctor of Law) Degree from the University of Michigan. He talks about his time at the University and the importance of a good education. He praises the University for...
Cotton family--Homes and haunts--Iowa--DeWitt; Cotton, Della M.; Cotton, Bertha M.
Two women seated beside the back door of their house in DeWitt, Iowa. On the left is Della M. Cotton and on the right is Bertha M. Cotton. They are the daughters of Salem Cotton and his wife Mercy Brown.
Teacher and students posed outside a one-room schoolhouse. The children in the front row are dressed in white and are carrying flowers. The tallest woman on the left in the back row is Lucy Pascal, sister of Descartes Pascal. The school is located...
Street scene in Grand Mound, Iowa. Two men are sitting outside a storefront. Above another shop there is a sign for a cobbler named ""A. Schultz"" and a dog is sitting beside the doorway to the shop. Farther down the street, three young boys lean...