Scrapbook compiled by Evelyn Birkby; chiefly contains clippings from "Up a country lane, " Birkby's weekly homemaking column in the Shenandoah Evening Sentinel newspaper.
Scrapbook compiled by Evelyn Birkby; chiefly contains clippings from "Up a country lane," Birkby's weekly homemaking column in the Shenandoah Evening Sentinel newspaper.
Sharon Neff has been a potter since before she had permission. As a child she played in the woods behind her house on the Mississippi River bluff. When discovered by her mother, she insisted she was not playing with fire, but explained that she was...
Patricia Foster is a professor in the Nonfiction Writing Program at the University of Iowa. She is the author of All the Lost Girls: Confessions of a Southern Daughter and editor of Minding the Body: Women Writers on Body and Soul. Just Beneath My...
Debora Stewart was born in Iowa in 1951. She has lived in Clinton, Iowa all of her life. She received a Bachelors in Art Education from the University of Iowa and a Masters in Counselor Education from Western Illinois University. She has always...
Whiting Paper Company, Holyoke, Massachusetts & Chicago -- "Our Aim" with samples of ledger paper (n.d.), pamphlet -- sample calling card with New Year's wish (1884) in envelope -- brochure entitled "Card Courtesy (n.d.) (in envelope) -- booklet...