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.
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.
Clergy; Chaplains; War; Military life; Military medicine; Campaigns & battles; Hospital ships; Religion; Reunions; Reformatories
Corkhill was a Methodist minister, instrumental in the founding of Iowa Wesleyan College and the reformatories in Mitchellville and Eldora, Iowa. Governor Samuel Kirkwood commissioned this account of Corkhill's experiences as a chaplain for the...
Soviet Union -- Description and travel -- 1917-1944; Soviet Union -- Description and travel -- 1917-1944 -- Caricatures and cartoons; Communism -- Soviet Union; Communism -- Soviet Union -- Caricatures and cartoons
Samuel Stewart writes: 'I am fourteen years old and homeschooled. My parents graduated from the University of Iowa, and my grandmother lives in Sioux City. My inspiration for this essay came from my grandmother's backyard.'
Bruce Moore received his BA from The University of Iowa in 1970 and his MA in biology from Drake University in 1973. He and his wife Betsy live in Geneseo, Illinois and have four children and six grandchildren.