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.
Correspondence details the 1863 wartime experiences of James Mead, who joined the army in 1862 and served in both the Iowa Infantry Volunteers and the U.S. Colored Volunteer Infantry.
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.
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 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...