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 also includes awards presented to Birkby by Iowa Press Women, Inc....
Excerpted from The Irving library, vol. 7, no. 949. Includes debate with Stephen Douglas (June 17, 1858), speech at Independence Hall (Feb. 21, 1861), First Inaugural Address (Mar. 4, 1861), Emancipation Proclamation (Jan. 1, 1863), Gettysburg...
"An address delivered before the Springfield Washingtonian Temperance Society at the Second Presbyterian Church on the twenty-second day of February, 1842, by Abraham Lincoln."
Marcellus Warner Darling was a native of New York. He enlisted in Company K, 154th New York Volunteers on September 6, 1862. The 154th saw a great deal of action during the Civil War. Darling was wounded in the battle of Chancellorsville, was...
Correspondence detailing the experiences of Joseph Franklin Culver, who served with the Illinois 129th Infantry Regiment, Company A, from 1862-1865, first as a lieutenant and later as captain.
Soldiers; War casualties; Sick persons; Military camps; Military hospitals; Prisoners of war; Military officers; Guards; Courtship; Campaigns & battles; Writing; Reading; Christianity; Slaves; Freedmen; Orphanages; Mental institutions; Teachers;...
Diaries of siblings O.C., Mary, and R. Amanda Shelton from the 1860s and a speech written by R. Amanda Shelton in 1911 about her experiences during the Civil War. O.C. Shelton served as an officer in the Iowa Infantry 45th Regiment and died of...
Families; Children; Wives; Marriage; Love; Homesickness; Kissing; Soldiers; Military officers; Military camps; Military headquarters; Military cookery; Surrenders; Wages; Correspondence; War casualties; Sick persons; Prayer; Campaigns & battles;...
James B. Weaver was trained as a lawyer, entered the Civil War as a private and left as a brigadier general, was an attorney general, tax assessor, and newspaper editor in Iowa, was elected to Congress, and was twice a presidential candidate, for...
Diaries recounting the Civil War experiences of Jacob Harrison Allspaugh of the 31st Ohio Infantry regiment, primarily describing the war in Tennessee, Mississippi, and Georgia. Allspaugh was a resident of Rock Rapids, Iowa, in his later years.
Soviet Union -- Description and travel -- 1917-1944; Soviet Union -- Description and travel -- 1917-1944 -- Caricatures and cartoons; Communism -- Soviet Union; Communism -- Soviet Union -- Caricatures and cartoons