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Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: 14/15/02/02
Scope and Contents
The Harold Palmer Mobile Unit Collection consists of materials documenting the development and use of the Iowa State Teachers College Mobile Industrial Arts Unit. The unit, originally a 44-foot bread truck and trailer, was designed to help instructors teach industrial arts to rural students whose schools could not afford their own equipment. Among the machines included in the unit were lathes, drill presses, a milling machine, and a metal shaper. Fifth through eighth grade students learned...
Dates:
1948-1952
Collection
Identifier: RSC-RSR-043
Scope and Contents
This collection contains documents from the rural school system of Harrison County, Iowa dating from 1912-1973. The records cover a majority of the rural schools’ histories, but they are not comprehensive: some records were lost before their transfer to the Center for the History of Rural Iowa Education and Culture.
The collection material is arranged into three series – “County Board of Education, 1929-1973”, “Office of the Superintendent, 1912-1976”, and “District and School, 1932-1966”...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1912-1976; Other: Majority of material found in 1918-1973; Other: Date acquired: 10/26/2007
Collection
Identifier: RSC-HEC-008
Scope and Contents
As the District Board of Education Secretary for Black Hawk County, Cedar Falls Township, #6 Eddy School, Harry Barck amassed a collection of rural school records that shed light on the duties of a school board officer. In addition to Mr. Barck's secretarial records, The Harry Barck Collection contains materials from Mrs. Pauline L. Barck (Hekel), a rural school teacher, and the student records of the couple's two children, Frances A. Brunskill (Barck), and Philip H. Barck.
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1915-1958; Other: Majority of material found in 1920-1950
Collection
Identifier: 20/03/02/01
Scope and Contents
The Harvey August (H.A.) Riebe papers contain records created and used by Riebe during a portion of his time at the Iowa State Teachers College. They date from 1942 to 1952. The vast majority of the collection consists of scripts and correspondence related to Riebe’s radio broadcast, “The Student in War Service.”“The Student in War Service” broadcast materials date from 1942 to 1945. The program scripts provide basic news about ISTC students serving in the war, general war news,...
Dates:
1942 - 1945
Collection
Identifier: MsC-69
Scope and Contents
The Hess collection includes correspondence, publications, journals, worksheets, and news clippings by and about Harvey Hess. Notes on journals in the Hess collection, Boxes 1-4 (Box 4 also contains biographical material. There are also some miscellaneous journal pages in box 14, primarily from the mid-1990s. Harvey Hess was a writer who created poetry, essays, music and art reviews, librettos, plays, and short stories. He also kept diaries. Dating his journals was challening, because more...
Dates:
1946-2012
Collection
Identifier: 14/06/02/01
Scope and Contents
This collection consists primarily of assignments prepared by students in Miss Strayer’s classes; lecture and demonstration material; and typed copies of poetry and dramatic selections probably used as recitations in those classes. The collection also includes newspaper clippings, two promptbooks, and a small amount of personal correspondence. Some material apparently used for classroom recitations was discarded due to its poor physical condition.
Dates:
Undated
Collection
Identifier: 19/34
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of a few documents and a large, extensive, and exceptionally fine college scrapbook kept by Hazel Frank. It is an excellent document of life at the Teachers College in the early 1930s.
Dates:
c. 1931-1937
Collection
Identifier: 04/04/01
Collection
Identifier: 14/03/04
Scope and Contents
The Hearst family papers date from about 1762 to 1996 and contain correspondence, photographs, clippings, journals, unpublished drafts, published works, and more related to the lives and careers of members of the Hearst family.Hearst family members who materials are represented in the collection include James Schell Hearst, Charles Ernest Hearst, Katherine Schell Hearst, Charles Joseph Hearst, Helen Louise Hearst, Camelita Calderwood Hearst, Meryl Norton Hearst, and Gladys...
Dates:
c. 1762-1996
Collection
Identifier: 19/78
