Spanish poet Juan Ramón Jiménez (1881–1958) received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1956. Michael Carey farms in southwest Iowa near the town of Farragut. He is the author of a teaching manual and five books of poetry. “The Little Green...
Mary Andrews Muller was born in Evanston, Illinois, in 1934. She is the second of four children. Her family moved a lot, living in Michigan, Illinois, Pennsylvania, and New York. From sixth grade through high school, she grew up in Bloomfield...
Orville Magnus Running was born September 19, 1910 in Veblen, South Dakota to the Rev. Alfred Running and Sophia Olsen Running. His father was a Lutheran pastor and his mother a teacher and musician. After living in Montana and Idaho, the family...
One of 18 scrapbooks on Wood's career, containing letters, postcards, photographs, clippings, and miscellany; compiled by Nan Wood Graham, sister of Grant Wood.
One of 18 scrapbooks on Wood's career, containing letters, postcards, photographs, clippings, and miscellany; compiled by Nan Wood Graham, sister of Grant Wood.
In the northeastern Ekiti region of Yoruba country, helmet masks called epa surmounted by tall, elaborately carved superstructures, perform in festivals held during the first yam harvests of the year. The heavy masks, weighing between thirty and...
Clark Blaise begins the discussion by giving a brief overview of protest novels and the importance of this type of literature throughout the world. Tibor Fischer talks of the Hungarian revolution of 1956 in which his first novel Under the Frog is...
Clark Blaise interviews György Spiró, a novelist and playwright from Hungary. Spiró was ten years old at the time of the Hungarian Revolution in 1956 and talks about his life during that time. Before deciding to be a writer he had contemplated...
British novelist Tibor Fischer talks about being born to Hungarian parents who fled to England during the 1956 revolution in Hungary. He states that both of his parents were basketball players in Hungary, which influenced his first novel, “Under...
Peter Nazareth interviews Hungarian authors, Pal Bekes and Kornel Hamvai. Bekes discusses living in a cellar in 1956 and experience he used for his play entitled “Cellar Play,” about refuges that have been hiding so long they are unable to find...
Contents: Acceptance of invitation to conference, Mar. 2, 1959; Approval of grade 4 report topic, Mar. 21, 1955; Approval to not do grade 4 report and take executive training seminars, Oct. 31, 1955; Approval to take executive training seminars and...
Includes several manuscripts of several pages each, by Henry A. Wallace, in his handwriting, and with titles supplied by him. Documents by Henry A. Wallace and others include: "Abstract of Conversation with Mr. John Maynard Keynes," 1936,...
"Revised edition by the author. Reprinted in 1956 by the Illinois State Historical Library from the 'Illinois blue book, 1953-1954,' issued January, 1955, by Charles F. Carpentier, Secretary of State."
On basketball team from 1953-1956. Voted Iowa's most valuable player during 1953-54 and 1955-56 seasons. Was part of the American basketball team which won the Olympic gold medal in 1956.
On basketball team from 1953-1956. Voted Iowa's most valuable player during 1953-54 and 1955-56 seasons. Was part of the American basketball team which won the Olympic gold medal in 1956.
Autograph letters and documents relating to the history of America, from the private collection of Mr. & Mrs. Philip D. Sang, were exhibited at the State University of Iowa Library from Nov. 3-Dec. 8, 1956.
Autograph letters and documents relating to the history of America, from the private collection of Mr. & Mrs. Philip D. Sang, were exhibited at the State University of Iowa Library from Nov. 3-Dec. 8, 1956.