2,600+ photographs documenting railroad depots captured in the late 1800s into the 1980s; includes depictions of trains, tracks, signs, stations and travelers.
Contributing Institution:
Special Collections Dept., University of Iowa Libraries
Featuring more than 3,500 digital images of historic photographs, correspondence, and other artifacts documenting the Union Pacific and the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific railroad companies.
Contributing Institution:
Special Collections Dept., University of Iowa Libraries
Hundreds of issues, ca. 1887-1905, of the Railroad Telegraphers of North America's journal, based in Iowa. Along with railway news, the issues feature fiction, poetry, and humor.
Contributing Institution:
University of Iowa Libraries
State Historical Society of Iowa
Catalogs and price lists for the Rand & Leopold Desk Company, an office furniture manufacturing firm which operated out of Burlington, Iowa for 102 years before closing in 1990.
Contributing Institution:
Special Collections Dept., University of Iowa Libraries
Hundreds of calendars, invitations, pamphlets, and other ephemeral materials created by John Springer (1850-1937), an Iowa City printer.
Contributing Institution:
Special Collections Dept., University of Iowa Libraries
Over 100 recipe pamphlets, published by food and appliance manufacturers; dating from the late 19th century to the present, this advertising ephemera reflects the evolution of the modern American diet.
Contributing Institution:
Special Collections Dept., University of Iowa Libraries
Advertising pamphlets, ca. 1920s-1930s, from the Iowa-based Victor Animatograph Corporation, manufacturers of the world's first 16mm motion picture projector, or "animatograph."
Contributing Institution:
Special Collections Dept., University of Iowa Libraries
Several hundred Victorian-era advertising cards promoting products such as clocks, jewelry, food, and medicine; the cards' images are often whimsical and bear little relation to the company or product being advertised.
Contributing Institution:
Special Collections Dept., University of Iowa Libraries
Photographs, correspondence, and news clippings documenting the UI's experiments in television broadcasting during the 1930s.
