Scrapbook compiled by Evelyn Birkby; chiefly contains clippings from "Up a country lane, " Birkby's weekly homemaking column in the Shenandoah Evening Sentinel newspaper.
Cavalry; Military officers; Military camps; Soldiers; Guards; Guerrillas; Courts martial & courts of inquiry; Military deserters; Marching; Troop movements; Equipment & supplies; Spies; Executions; Prisoners of war; Refugees; Naval warfare
Holograph and printed copies of correspondence, orders, and invoices of the 1st Iowa Cavalry, mustered into service in Sept. 1861 under the command of Colonel Fitz Henry Warren, sent to Benton Barracks in Saint Louis and then on patrol in Missouri.
Dustin Renwick is a sophomore journalism student at St. Ambrose University in Davenport, Iowa. Dustin is the Ads Director and frequent contributor to the school newspaper, The Buzz. He is also a hurdler and triple jumper for the men's track and...
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.
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.
The Advertisers Paper Mills, New York -- "Caslon Flowers: An Appreciation" by W.A.Dwiggins printed on Holyoke Text paper (1913), booklet -- Bradner Smith & Co., Chicago -- booklet of Government rules and regulations of interest to printers (1918)...
Allegheny Insurance Co., Pittsburgh -- ad card with formal reminder of date of expiration of policy printed on one side (c. 1880's) -- Armstrong Cork Company, St. Louis -- business card printed on paper-thin piece of genuine cork (n.d.) -- William...