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...
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; liberal arts; technical education; curriculum development; educational reform; higher education; technical eduation; liberal arts
Box 2, Folder 9: A speech given by Welch about the benefits of a practical education. He discusses how education that has no outlet in useful activities is not as valuable as a practical education. He gives examples to prove that without the...
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)
World War I, 1914-1918; Military Training; Iowa State University;
Activities at training camp. In the foreground in front of a tent encampment a squad of eight men are engaged in making maps. On the image left a group of men are in line to move out of the group of tents.
Farm Equipment; Agriculture; Iowa State University;
A tractor-mounted six-row cultivator seen from the rear. One man is driving the tractor.One man is also seated on each of the two rear sections of the cultivator, one on each side of the machine. The machinery and the tractor have steel wheels....
Farm Equipment; Agriculture; Iowa State University;
A tractor-mounted six-row cultivator seen from the front. One man is driving the tractor.One man is also seated on each of the two rear sections of the cultivator, one on each side of the machine. The machinery and the tractor have steel wheels....
Farm Equipment; Agriculture; Iowa State University;
A rubber tired tractor with an attached field cultivator preparing a seedbed for corn. The tractor is stationary without a driver. It is viewed at middle distance from the rear, in the middle of a large field, untilled except for where this...
Farm Equipment; Agriculture; Iowa State University;
A closeup view of a tractor mounted cultivator with a pair of disk hillers and two pairs of sweeps per row for final corn cultivation. The tractor has steel wheels. The corn being cultivated is approximately three feet high.
Welch, Adonijah Strong, 1821-1889; Speeches; Presidents' papers; Iowa State University presidents; Curriculum development; Higher education; Technical education
Box 2, Folder 17: A speech given by Welch before the State Association of Principals of Graded Schools in Iowa City on July 27, 1878. He discusses differences between the old and new theories of education and curricula. He asserts that in order...
World War I, 1914-1918; Military Training; Iowa State University;
Male students formally sitting on the front steps of Beardshear Hall with a man in military uniform. In the back row two men hold a banner with the text ""Iowa State College, Ames, USA"" surrounding a cross.
Farm Equipment; Agriculture; Iowa State University;
A driver on a steel-wheeled tractor pulling a plow with an unusual chain gearing system. A tree line in the background is the boundary for the field of corn stubble being plowed.
Farm Equipment; Agriculture; Iowa State University;
A rear view of a steel-wheeled tractor with a spring tooth weeder rear attached for cultivation in a process that kills weeds and levels inter-row soil. The driverless tractor is in the midst of tilling a corn field with corn approximately 20...
World War I, 1914-1918; Military Training; Iowa State University;
A street scene in which a large training detachment of U.S. soldiers in uniform is marching in formation with rifles on shoulders. Cars are parked on one side of the street. In the foreground there is debris that suggests a sidewalk installation...
World War I, 1914-1918; War Work; Iowa State University;
The Iowa State College Service Flag used in World War I. The numbers 2, 1, 8, 0 are arranged vertically on a white vertical field with a dark perimeter field. The numbers are formed by a double row of stars. At either side of the numerical...
World War I, 1914-1918; Military Vehicle; Military Training; Iowa State University;
A unit of U.S. soldiers:""Second section, Iowa section."" Twenty-three men are posed for a photograph by a military transport vehicle. The truck's canvas cover is stenciled with the insignia ""U.S.Q.M.C.""
