Scrapbook compiled by Evelyn Birkby; chiefly contains clippings from "Up a country lane," Birkby's weekly homemaking column in the Shenandoah Evening Sentinel newspaper.
"First Country Lane column scrapbook, 1949-1954. Cataloged Feb....
Scrapbook compiled by Evelyn Birkby; chiefly contains clippings from "Up a country lane, " Birkby's weekly homemaking column in the Shenandoah Evening Sentinel newspaper.
Kelly Bartolotta writes: 'I'm a 21-year-old student originally from the Chicago area, but deeply entrenched in the small-town, quiet and serene life in Mount Vernon, Iowa. The vastness of this state and the beauty of its nature have helped...
Jennifer Banash's Hollywoodland: An American Fairy Tale was published in 2006 by Impetus Press, an independent publisher based in Iowa City. Founded on a mountain of contempt for mainstream publishing and a dislike for the rigid constraints of...
Newspaper articles about Nile Kinnick's untimely death and the many tributes that followed, which included scholarships, awards, memorials and the renaming of the University of Iowa's stadium to Kinnick Stadium.
Concerning his agreement with Wilson's Tory beliefs; accuses Blackwood's magazine and Wilson of offensive treatment of the "Cockney" poets, Shelley, Keats, Hunt, Procter and Tennyson, because their political ideas were not in agreement with...
Powell, Thomas, 1809-1887; Hunt, Leigh, 1784-1859; Gillies, Margaret, 1803-1887; Horne, R. H. (Richard H.), 1802-1884;
Concerning his desire to visit Hunt; his enjoyment of Margaret Gillies' portrait of Hunt which Powell borrowed from her; the success of Moxon's edition of Massinger and Ford; the sale of Moxon's reprint of Hunt's Indicator; R.H. Horne's and his new...
Concerning dinner on the river; medicine for Thornton’s weakness; a letter to Mr. Newnham (copied on last page); requesting a message be given to Mrs. Webbe; a ball in Brighton and Marianne’s envy of women able to walk “arm in arm” with...