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.
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.
This handwritten cookery book has recipes and newspaper clipping recipes laid in. Generally, the recipes in this cloth bound notebook are accompanied by the names of the people who gave them. There are 78 pages of which 66 are written.
The recipes date from the 1880's-1890's. There is a newspaper recipe for Emma Paddock Telford's "Chocolate Fudge Recipes for College Girls' Spreads." Ms. Telford wrote several books published between 1908 and 1914. The other newspaper clippings in...
Family history including author's description of her father John Strang's participation in the Civil War in Company K of the 11th Regiment of the Iowa Infantry Volunteers.
Letters detailing army life in 1863 for Civil War soldier William Titus Rigby of the 24th Iowa Infantry Regiment, Company B, including the Vicksburg campaign.
Yiyun Li grew up in Beijing and came to the United States in 1996. She earned MFA degrees in fiction and nonfiction writing at the University of Iowa and currently teaches at Mills College in Oakland, California. Her essay 'The Ground Floor' was...
Rosie Sorenson grew up near the Quad Cities and attended the University of Iowa from 1963 to 1968. Her work has been published in several publications, including the San Francisco Chronicle and Mobius. One of her essays, broadcast on KQED-FM (San...