Souvenir of the November 17, 1951 meeting of the Lincoln Group of Boston. Article is an excerpt from the book New physiognomy originally published in 1866.
W.B. Emmons was a soldier with the 34th Illinois Infantry during the Civil War. In his diary, he writes about the Atlanta Campaign, the end of the war, and Lincoln's assassination.
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 of Civil War soldier William Titus Rigby of the 24th Iowa Infantry Regiment, Company B. After the war he attended Cornell College in Mount Vernon, Iowa, and graduated in 1869.
Newspaper articles about Nile Kinnick's last football season at the University of Iowa, his subsequent football awards, his participation in the 1940 All Stars game, his Iowa speaking tours, and his enlistment and training in the U.S. Naval Air...
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.