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Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: MsC-72
Scope and Contents
This is a three page handwritten letter from John Ruskin to a Mr. Smith. It is dated Easter Monday, 1864. In the letter, Ruskin discusses the disposition of some drawings. The provenance of the letter and the date when it was added to the University Archives are unknown. It has been in the collection since at least 1974.
Dates:
1864
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: MsC-73
Scope and Contents
This is a photocopy of a letter from Oscar Burbank to Dr. W. A. Rohlf, of Waverly, Iowa, written on November 30, 1899. In the letter Burbank recalls witnessing what he states was the first use of ether in a surgical operation. Dr. W. T. G. Morton apparently originated the use of ether. He asked Dr. Warren to use the anesthetic procedure in a surgical operation. Dr. Warren then performed the operation in November 1846 at Massachusetts General Hospital. The provenance of this letter and the...
Dates:
1899
Collection
Identifier: 22/01/03
Scope and Contents
This collection, dating from c. 1980-2020, contains the records of Rod Library committees, task forces, and working groups. Files include meeting minutes, reports, brochures, agendas, and other administrative records. It documents the work of Rod Library (and its predecessors) and its staff throughout the library's history.
Dates:
c. 1980-2020
Collection
Identifier: 22/01/04
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of photographs related to Rod Library, its activities, and its staff. Photographs are organized into photograph album sleeves and are numbered.
The collection's control file includes a key that identifies a majority of the photographs, using the number on the back of the images. Please ask SC&UA staff for assistance if you are interested in looking at the key and photographs together.
Dates:
1976-
Collection
Identifier: 22/12/01
Collection — Box: 1, Folder: 1
Identifier: MsC-7
Scope and Contents
This is the college notebook of a man named Lindsay Seals. It contains the lecture notes he took for two classes. The first half covers metaphysics as taught by a Dr. Wylie, while the second half has notes from Rhetoric and Oratory. The name of the teacher of this second course is unknown.
Dates:
1839-1840
Collection
Identifier: RSC-RSR-057
Scope and Contents
This collection contains documents from the rural school system of Linn County, Iowa dating from 1847-1976. 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: “Office of the Superintendent, 1847-1971”, “Township, 1919-1942”, “District and School, 1905-1976".
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Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1847-1976; Other: Majority of material found in 1915-1970; Other: Date acquired: 10/05/2007
Collection
Identifier: 17/01/03/19
Scope and Contents
This collection contains two copies of LIT journal's April/May 2000 issue.
Dates:
2000
Collection
Identifier: 17/01/03/18
Collection
Identifier: 19/31
Scope and Contents
This collection contains photographs and one copy of The Alumnus (July 1940). The photographs were accumulated by Lizzie Doderer, most likely while she was a student at the Iowa State Normal School, as well as later in her life. Many of the photographs are studio portraits of Doderer and her friends, including Emma Niederfrank, Ruia Bowersox, Mary Closz, Amy Walker, Nell Cole, Myrtie Lockwood, and others. Also included are images of groups outside of rooming...
Dates:
c. 1900; 1940
