Librarian and UI alumna Esther Walls was elected director of the United States Secretariat for the International Book Year 1972. In this capacity, she coordinated the activities of the U.S. Secretariat, an agency established to promote the United...
Scrapbook compiled by Evelyn Birkby; chiefly contains clippings from "Up a country lane, " Birkby's weekly homemaking column in the Shenandoah Evening Sentinel newspaper.
War; Soldiers; Campaigns & battles; Military camps; Military life; Families; Children; Farming
Wilkerson, a young farmer in Hamburg, Iowa, was drafted into the 13th Iowa Infantry, Company C; he left behind his pregnant wife Sarahett to run the farm. He traveled by his estimate more than 5,000 miles to seven states and the District of...
One of 18 scrapbooks on Wood's career, containing letters, postcards, photographs, clippings, and miscellany; compiled by Nan Wood Graham, sister of Grant Wood.
Concerning arrangements to pay his washerwoman and his determination "to be perfectly well off" before he marries. The Baron's rudeness last night; his suggestion that Hunt's displays of affection with Marianne are vulgar; Hunt's reprimand.
Concerning his illness; his gratitude for the illumination by Adelaide Procter and for Procter's poetry; his comments on Wilkie Collins; the cities of York and Chester; the value of words; Pauline Burette and his wish that she might talk French...