Military service; Soldiers; Veterans; War; Pensions
Typed transcriptions, photocopies and newspaper clippings documenting the Civil War experiences of Charles T. Ackley, a New York native who moved to Iowa before the War, and of the Seventh Iowa Volunteer Infantry to which he belonged.
Katherine Parker earned her BA in Studio Art and Art History from the University of California, Davis in 1995. She is currently pursuing an MFA at the University of Iowa with an emphasis in intermedia. S. Bailey Jacobson is an Intermedia B.F.A....
One of 18 scrapbooks on Wood's career, containing letters, postcards, photographs, clippings, and miscellany; compiled by Nan Wood Graham, sister of Grant Wood.
Scrapbook compiled by Evelyn Birkby; chiefly contains clippings from "Up a country lane, " Birkby's weekly homemaking column in the Shenandoah Evening Sentinel newspaper.
Papers and documents of James Miller, a Scottish immigrant who served in the Civil War as an engineer and later was an engineer at the Joliet State Prison.
Soldiers; Military discharges; Military service; Pensions; Military officers; Horses; Animal auctions
Asahel Mann and his two brothers were soldiers in Company A of the 4th Iowa Volunteer Cavalry. Asahel enlisted in Aug. 1861 at age 18, was taken prisoner on Oct. 11, 1862 in Jones Lane, Ark., and was exchanged and returned to his company on Dec. 1,...
James B. Weaver was trained as a lawyer, entered the Civil War as a private and left as a brigadier general, was an attorney general, tax assessor, and newspaper editor in Iowa, was elected to Congress, and was twice a presidential candidate, for...
Teresa Paschke is an Assistant Professor at Iowa State University in Ames where she teaches in the Fibers program. Her work has been featured in many national and international exhibitions. She recently returned from a residency at the Women's...