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.
Scrapbook compiled by Evelyn Birkby; chiefly contains clippings from "Up a country lane, " Birkby's weekly homemaking column in the Shenandoah Evening Sentinel newspaper.
Anonymous. Circa 1750 -- 1780. The book is in its original vellum written in several hands. There are 230 pages of which 148 are written. The cookbook is indexed with recipes in other hands pasted in the back. Recipes include: to make French bread,...
Sewell Van Alstine describes his experiences as a soldier in the 95th Illinois Infantry during the Civil War. Diary contains entries from September 1863 to October 1864. Van Alstine is also featured in the Iowa Authors Collection.
Soldiers; Surgery; Physicians; War casualties; Military hospitals; Military camps; Battlefields; Campaigns & battles; Military officers; Homesickness; Education
Letters from Underwood to his wife, Sophie, and two from her to him, while he was an assistant surgeon of the 12th Regiment of the Iowa Infantry during the Civil War.
This poem was selected for the 2009 Poetry in Public project, sponsored by the Iowa City Public Art Program. Now in its seventh year, Poetry in Public displays poems by local writers of all ages in Iowa City buses, downtown kiosks, and select...
Newspaper articles about the University of Iowa football seasons, 1936-1939, where Nile Kinnick excelled as a star player, which led to his Heisman trophy award.
Letters to and from Kinnick, a student leader, scholar, athlete, and naval officer from Iowa. This correspondence is chiefly letters from Nile Kinnick to his family members during his military training at the U.S. Naval Air Station in Miami,...
Horne, R. H. (Richard H.), 1802-1884; Horne, Maria Patridge; Deal, John
Concerning his anxiety at her not receiving some of his letters, some of which contained money; his trip from Vera Cruz; his service with the Mexicans who cheated him, forcing him to give up his plan of seeing the wilder tribes of North America;...
Concerning his desire for amicable arrangements regarding the Examiner and the Liberal; John Murray's bitterness against John Hunt; Byron's directions for Murray to publish Werner and Heaven and Earth; Murray's fear of the latter being unorthodox;...