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These papers include correspondence, reports, meeting minutes, floor plans, and campus maps relating to the planning of campus classrooms and dormitories during the 1940s and 1950s. The file labels and alphabetical organization exist as they were assigned by Ambrose. Of note is the 1955 space utilization study, conducted for all offices and classrooms in all campus buildings. In addition to the enormity of the project, this study is noteworthy for the standardization of building names Ambrose apparently brought about. He and his staff found that four resources -- the 1954 Financial Report, the Staff Directory, the Schedule of Courses, and the SUI section of the telephone book -- were not in agreement regarding the nomenclature of some campus buildings (see Box 10, folder 1). This collection provides a view of campus growth, as well as evidence of cooperation between institutions as they grappled with the same challenges.

Photographs: Boxes 13, 20

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These papers describe the work of Dr. Darwin T. Turner and his collections of writings by African American authors. These papers document his development of the African American World Studies Program, within the English Department at the University of Iowa.

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The Edward E. Mason papers, 1945-2023, contains publications, photographs, and correspondence from the "Father of Obesity Surgery."

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The Marcus Bach papers, 1933-1964, contain correspondence, scripts, programs, publishing contracts, articles, and biographical materials from the playright and religion scholar.

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Professor of art and art history. Consultant to National Endowment for the Humanities. Correspondence, administrative records.

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University of Iowa professor in Sociology and Anthropology, 1960-1999. Correspondence, speeches, manuscript, awards.

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These papers include biographical information and fundraising records of the University of Iowa Foundation from 1962 to 1999. Folders regarding "The Club" pertain to a faculty dinner club established at the University of Iowa on November 11, 1905.

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Professor and head of Art Department, 1936-1958. Correspondence, articles, clippings.

Scope and Contents The Joan Mannheimer papers include correspondence and other research material used in the writing of two enclosed unpublished manuscripts, River Rebels in the Barracks: Ceramic Education at the University of Iowa, 1952-1969, and Glenn C. Nelson. Nelson was an instructor in the University of Iowa Department of Art during 1954-1955.Three color photographs regarding potter Tom Mason are enclosed with correspondence to Mannheimer from James McKinnell, who was assistant professor in the UI Department of Art 1963-1968. Black and white photographs are included of Glenn C. Nelson. The collection includes references to barracks, trailers, Quonset huts, and other temporary structures which were constructed on the University of Iowa campus near the Iowa River after World War II. These buildings were initially constructed for the purpose of housing veterans and married students enrolled at the University, but later also served as class rooms and office space for such programs as...

Scope and Contents The correspondence includes determinations of specimen types, exchanges, botanical society business, critiquing of journal articles, recommendations for Martin's many students, and inquiries from the general public. Correspondents include botanical garden personnel, herbarium curators, professors at other universities, government agencies dealing with the study of fungi, foreign mycologists, and his former students. Significant correspondents include Constantine John Alexopoulos, Ruth McVaugh Allen, Gladys Elizabeth Baker, Robert Joseph Bandoni, Ernst Athearn Bessey, Henry Shoemaker Conard, William Bridge Cooke, Richard William George Dennis, Bernard Ogilvie Dodge, Marie Leonore Farr, Joseph Charles Gilman, William Dudley Gray, Clifford William Hesseltine, Herbert Spencer Jackson, Theodor Karl Just, Lorene Louise Kennedy, Donald T. Kowalski, Paul Lewis Lentz, David Hunt Linder, Marcel V. Locquin, Josiah Lincoln Lowe, Bernard Lowy, Thomas Huston Macbride (no letter from Macbride is...

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The Papers of Bohumil Shimek include published material and field notes taken by Shimek, assessing geological and botanical features of Iowa counties and other areas of the Midwest around the turn of the twentieth century. The collection also includes a set of his articles, both published and unpublished, arranged alphabetically by title.

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Professor of Chemistry at the University of Iowa, 1863-1886. Founder of the Iowa Weather Service, the first state weather and crop service in the United States.

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The papers of Roger Hornsby consist of personal and professional correspondence, lecture notes, essays, and book manuscripts. Also included are dinner party records and correspondence written by and received by his spouse, Jessie Lynn Gillespie Hornsby (1917-1993).

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Professor of English from 1920 until 1951. Published on the literature of Quakers.

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University of Iowa professor of English and instrumental in the founding of the UI School of Letters.

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Geology professor, University of Iowa, 1953-1978. Publications.

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University of Iowa professor of history, 1902-1949. Research specialty in European studies.

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Professor and head of the Department of History 1948-1981. Chair of Faculty Senate 1969-1970, during student protests of the Vietnam War. Correspondence and committe records.