The WCTU of Iowa held an annual convention each October in churches across the state. Women became members of the WCTU of Iowa upon signing the WCTU of Iowa Constitution, pledging to perform temperance work, and paying annual dues.
Scrapbook compiled by Evelyn Birkby; chiefly contains clippings from "Up a country lane, " Birkby's weekly homemaking column in the Shenandoah Evening Sentinel newspaper.
Sewell Van Alstine describes his experiences as a soldier in the 95th Illinois Infantry during the Civil War. Diary contains entries from September 1863 to October 1864. Van Alstine is also featured in the Iowa Authors Collection.
Soldiers; War casualties; Campaigns & battles; Guards; Sick persons; Military inspections; Military training; Marching; Typhus fever; Death; Graves
Letters from Beaty to his family recounting his experience as a Union soldier in the 149th Regiment of the Pennsylvania infantry, and letters to his family from his comrades recounting the circumstances of his death and burial.
One of 18 scrapbooks on Wood's career, containing letters, postcards, photographs, clippings, and miscellany; compiled by Nan Wood Graham, sister of Grant Wood.
Letters to and from Kinnick, a student leader, scholar, athlete, and naval officer from Iowa. This correspondence is chiefly letters from Nile Kinnick to his family members during his military training at the U.S. Naval Air Station in Pensacola,...
Newspaper articles about the University of Iowa football seasons, 1936-1939, where Nile Kinnick excelled as a star player, which led to his Heisman trophy award.
Concerning disappointment in the expected visit from Thornton; his request for a letter from Hunt; his praise of the Story of Rimini; his reading of the memoirs of the French revolution. The miserableness of the marriage state and his defense of...
The Aldine Publishing Company, New York -- ad card for wood-cut printing (n.d.) -- George E. Cockerton & Son, Danville, Illinois -- ad folder from job-printing firm (n.d.) -- Peter Pauper Press, Mount Vernon, New York -- sheet advertising Prelude...