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...
Althea "Bee" Moore was an undergraduate student at the University of Iowa (then known as the State University of Iowa) from 1924 to 1928. Very active socially, the scrapbook's collection of photographs, clippings, invitations and concert programs...
African Americans; Iowa Federation Home (Iowa City, Iowa)
Pamphlet describing the Iowa Federation Home, 942 Iowa Ave., Iowa City, Iowa. It was founded by the Iowa Federation of Colored Women’s Clubs in 1919 to house African American female students at the University of Iowa.
"The third annual exhibition of contemporary art (The Iowa Summer Show) is presented by the School of Fine Arts at the State University of Iowa as one of the major events of the Ninth Annual Fine Arts Festival. The exhibition this year presents...
"The summer exhibition of contemporary art at the State University of Iowa [is] a major feature of the Annual Fine Arts Festival. This year there are 160 paintings, drawings and prints, drawn from private collections, artists' studios, and...
Festival included: an address by Gibson A. Danes; "From galleries, museums and private homes ... this exhibition is composed of irreplaceable art objects of great aesthetic quality and intrinsic value. It affords indisputable evidence of great...
Festival included: panel featuring Grant Wood, Paul Green, Lawrence Tibbett, Frank Lloyd Wright; exhibition of paintings by Grant Wood and Marvin Cone; graduate student art exhibition; plays and musical performances.
"The exhibition is divided into two parts: (1) 'Art Created in Iowa' and (2) 'Art Collected in Iowa.' For the purposes of this exhibition, contemporary creative activity in Iowa is represented by works of art in several media by the faculty of the...