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.
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.
Notebook with brief notes of a trip to Montreal, follwed by an overnight train journey to St. Paul. The bulk of the volume is filled with recipes in pen and pencil for food preparations, also with some home remedies for colds and coughs, and...
One of 18 scrapbooks on Wood's career, containing letters, postcards, photographs, clippings, and miscellany; compiled by Nan Wood Graham, sister of Grant Wood.
Hunt, Leigh, 1784-1859; Swift, Mrs. Elizabeth S (Lorrain); Shewell, Lydia, 1776-1865; Shewell, Stephen, 1727-1809
Concerning his illnesses, the death of her sister and his delay in answering her last letter; the rebuke from his Aunt Lydia for remarks about his grandfather Shewell in his Autobiography; sends autographs for his American friends.
Concerning his interest in the project of reprinting Hunt's works in America; modestly sends a few of his sonnets at Hunt's request to be considered for inclusion in a collection, i.e. The book of the sonnet.
Carlyle, Thomas, 1795-1881; Fraser, James, d. 1841; Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, 1749-1832;
Concerning large printing account and the mailing of 500 of his books to America. The printing of his translation of Goethe's Wilhelm Meister's apprenticeship and travels; the value of reprinting two parts of German romance, that on Richter and...
For keyboard, apparently a reprinting of the keyboard part from an edition of the piano trio, identical to several such editions examined. Caption title. Engraved throughout. Contains violin cues; probably retained from earlier publication for...
Warning to voters to beware of bogus tickets of candidates for office -- lists legal political tickets for coming election (n.d.) -- Democratic State Convention, Council Bluffs (1892), 2 tickets. -- Gov. Horace Boies (1892), ticket to second...