Workmen have started work on the foundation for the 1st addition. Vertical rebars are sticking out of the foundation. A workman is operating a crane owned by Thomas Construction Company to lift a drum-shaped object. The workmens' office, two...
Clothing and dress; Costume; Fashion; Fashion Plates; Fashion Illustrations
Woman's Dress, made out of tulle and trimmed in satin, including a shirred overlay trimmed in lace (both front and back) over a fitted bodice, short puffed sleeves with contrasting fabric cutouts and ribbon, a full skirt decorated with a zigzag...
Iowa State University; Iowa Agriculture and Home Economics Experiment Station
With a corn crib and small electrical tower in the foreground, a cow peers out the door of the barn in the background on this Agriculture Experiment Station farm. A pig and horse are near the barn, and pigs are grazing in the snow on a hill in...
Clothing and dress; Costume; Fashion; Fashion Plates; Fashion Illustrations
Walking dresses for a mother and her two young children. The mother's dress has a fitted jacket that flairs out over her hips with lace trim, pagoda sleeves, a full skirt and a bonnet trimmed with flowers, feathers, ribbons and lace. The young...
Clothing and dress; Costume; Fashion; Fashion Plates; Fashion Illustrations
Walking Dress, illustrating the pelerine made out of matching fabric over a bodice with a high ruffled collar, wide shoulders, leg-of-mutton sleeves, decorative detailing down the front of the dress. The skirt length is somewhat shorter. The bonnet...
Two large cut out figures that resemble Pogo Possum and Albert the Alligator from the comic strip Pogo dominate this display along with three smaller pig figures. The alligator figure is carrying a knife and fork. The possum figure is sharpening a...
Clothing and dress; Costume; Fashion; Fashion Plates; Fashion Illustrations
Two day dresses both with fitted jackets with lace trim, full skirts, and lace caps with flowers and ribbons. Left dress has jacket flairing out over the hips, a lace collar and chemise, and pagoda sleeves with lace trim. Right dress has a matching...
Two cut out figures pedal a tandem bicycle in this Pi Beta Phi lawn display. The front figure is dressed as a football player, while the back figure might be an ISU fan. A tiger figure is being hit by the front of the bicycle.
Curtiss-Wright Engineering Cadettes, 1941-1945; Department of Military Science; Iowa State University; Women in Science and Engineering; World War II
Three cadettes are listening to instructions from their Professor Benjamin Willis in the Electrical Engineering Power Laboratory. One cadette is focused on a piece of equipment while another is taking notes. The third cadette looks on from the...
This winter image shows the front of Catt Hall. The building is partially obscured by the surrounding trees. There is snow on the building, trees and lawn.
This winter image shows the front and side of Catt Hall and the greenhouse next to it. There is snow on the ground and one individual is walking on the sidewalk.
This view of the Campanile is typical of a number of university publicity photographs. The top of the tower down to just below a clockface emerges through a grove of trees against a clear sky, as seen through a dark frame of heavy foliage and...
This view of the Campanile across a great open expanse of lawn shows full foliaged trees on either side of the view with two people in the middle distance walking across the lawn. An unidentified object (perhaps a weather data station) is in the...