Iowa State University; Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering Dept.; Plows
A team of three horses are drawing a mold board plow through a field creating furrows. The plow is moving away from the camera, but the driver has turned in the seat to face the camera. Two other teams and plows are in the background.
Farm Equipment; Agriculture; Iowa State University;
Dale Wollsoncroft demonstrating plow adjustment at a training event in State Center, Iowa, in the spring of 1949. A crowd of men is gathered around an instructor who is kneeling on the ground at the front end of a plow that is in turn connected to...
Kitchen-Klatter began as a half-hour radio show with Leanna Driftmier sharing household tips, recipes, and childrearing advice among other topics. The radio show aired from 1926-1986 making it the longest running homemaker program in the history of...
World War I, 1914-1918; Military Training; Iowa State University;
""American girls learning to use tractors in order to increase the Country's food supply at the National Service School, Inc., of the Women's Naval Service, Inc."" The tractor and the plow being pulled have all metal wheels without tires. An...
Compiled and written by the Iowa Writers' Program of the Work Projects Administration in the state of Iowa. Jessie M. Parker, state superintendent of public instruction, state-wide sponsor of the Iowa Writers' program. Sponsored by Joseph Flynn,...
Iowa State University Statistical Laboratory; Iowa State University Department of Statistics; Statistics; Statistical services
The Statistical Laboratory was organized at Iowa State College in 1933. The first of its kind in the nation, the Statistical Laboratory provides consulting work and promotes statistical research. Although statistics courses were first taught at...