The Aldine Publishing Company, New York -- ad card for wood-cut printing (n.d.) -- George E. Cockerton & Son, Danville, Illinois -- ad folder from job-printing firm (n.d.) -- Peter Pauper Press, Mount Vernon, New York -- sheet advertising Prelude...
Adapted from the Annals of Iowa, vol. XIV, no. 5, 1924. Contains a history of the women's suffrage movement in Iowa and solicits donations in order to construct a memorial.
Wheelchair no Impediment to Success on Iowa Campus -- UI Now Accessible to Disabled Students -- An Interview with Charles W. Case -- From Child Actor, to Dental Doctor -- Homecoming: Reunions 1980 -- In its 8th Year: Alumni Band Marches On --...
INDEX OF SPECIAL ARTICLES Alumni Dental Clinic -- Charles Noble Gregory / Emlin McClain, L. A. '71, LL.B. '73, L.L. D. '91 -- Commencement, June 9 to 14 -- Country Club Reunions -- Death of Professor Calvin -- Department of Fine Arts, The /...
"Greeting": Clarke -- The Athletic Horizon -- Good Start for Association -- Football Journalism in 1875 -- Alumni Laboratory Useful -- Thirty-one Marriages -- Homecoming Edition: Nov. 1 -- Come Home Nov. 15 -- The Iowa Spirit of 1899 -- Chicago...
The Efe/Gelede masquerades of the Yoruba of western Nigeria and Benin (formerly Dahomey) are held during the period from March to May at the beginning of the new agricultural season. The performances honor "our mothers," awon iya wa and...
This is a portrait of King Shamba Bolongongo (written more recently Shyaam a-Mbul a-Ngwoong), the most famous of the kings whose portraits were once preserved in Mushenge, the capital of the Kuba kingdom. The original portrait was removed to the...
The largest portion of the Bemba population currently lives in northeastern Zambia. However, the Bemba empire once extended to the shores of Lake Tanganyika in southeastern Zaire where several small pockets of Bemba people still exist. They...
Large and dramatic masks like this first attracted the attention of collectors and students of African art to the Yaka. The most numerousYaka mask types are those intended to be worn by adolescents and their tutors and exhibited to the public in...
The vision for the Iowa City area's participation in the UNESCO Creative Cities Network as a "City of Literature" is rolled out in a free, public event at 5 p.m. Tuesday, April 7, in the Englert Theatre, downtown Iowa City.
The program -- emceed...
Mike Ostlund, an Iowa City author and member of the Naval Submarine League, reads from his book Find 'em, Chase 'em, Sink 'em:The Mysterious Loss of the WWII Submarine USS Gudgeon. Ron Martini of the Submarine World Network says,….I approach most...
Ted Kooser reads various poems in honor of the release of his collection of poems entitled Delights and Shadows.
Kooser explains his tradition of annually sending postcards inscribed with a Valentine’s Day poem to wives of friends, and how he...
Poets Emily Wilson and Mark Levine read from their work. Emily Wilson is the author of two highly acclaimed collections, The Keep and Micrographia. She holds degrees from Harvard and The Iowa Writers' Workshop and is the recipient of a fellowship...