Skip to main content Skip to search results

Showing Collections: 1 - 20 of 32

Ben F. Jensen Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MsC0147
Abstract

U.S. Representative from Iowa. Correspondence, subject files, legislative records, and speeches relating to his career in the Congress.

Dates: 1939-1964

Childs Family Letters

 Collection
Identifier: MsC0547
Abstract

Letters of the Childsfamily in Philadelphia , Pennsylvania and members of the family in Clinton County , Iowa , including the towns of Low Moor, Lyons, and Camanche. Though the correspondence is carried on during the Civil War, the letters have mostly to do with domestic affairs.

Civil War period.

Dates: 1849-1889; Majority of material found within 1860-1860

Christian William Ramseyer Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MsC0132
Abstract

Attorney, Congressman, and U.S. Court of Claims commissioner from Iowa. Correspondence, clippings, court records and opinions, and speeches.

Dates: 1904-1943; Majority of material found within 1920-1939

Claus Ruus papers

 Collection
Identifier: MsC1238
Abstract

This collection is made up of crop reports and letters from Claus C. Ruus before, during, and after the Civil War.

Dates: 1849-1906

Clifford Thorne Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MsC0188
Abstract

Attorney, Iowa Railroad Commissioner and candidate for the U.S. Senate. Correspondence, speeches, notes and other material relating primarily to legal disputes involving transportation of agricultural products.

Dates: 1901-1923; Majority of material found within 1917-1922

Cranefield African Agriculture Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MsC0813
Abstract

Paul Cranefield did research on agriculture in Southern Africa.

Dates: 1902-1945

Daniel A. Wallace Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MsC0178
Abstract

Agricultural journalist. Business correspondence, speeches, and subject files relating to agriculture and the Wallace family.

Dates: 1905-1954

Dick Clark papers

 Collection
Identifier: MsC0414
Abstract

U.S. Senator from Iowa , and educator. Arranged in 9 series, the papers consist of subject files, casework files, issue statements, clippings, audio, visual, film and photographs during his term in office. Subjects of special concern to Clark range from Africa and international relations to agriculture and conservation, Democratic Party politics to the aged, and education to transportation.

Dates: 1973-1988; Majority of material found within 1973-1979

Earl Elijah Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MsC0244
Abstract

State senator, farmer, and bank president. Primarily speeches about agriculture, with newspaper clippings, campaign literature, and correspondence.

Dates: 1929-1971

Edward Kennedy Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MsC0442
Abstract

Judge, economist, statistician, and union official. Papers relating primarily to Kennedy's activities with the National Farmers' Union in the 1930s. Also contains subject files relating to his work as a probate judge and with the United Mine Workers of America.

Dates: 1921-1983; Majority of material found within 1930-1939

Edwin Thomas Meredith Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MsC0121
Abstract

Attorney and Iowa state legislator. Subject files and correspondence concerning his business, family and political career. The bulk of the papers consist of correspondence dealing with business conditions during the 1920s and W.W.II, politics, family life.

Dates: 1898-1949

Erik Bert Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MsC0426
Abstract

Born Herbert Joseph Putz. Communist journalist and editor in the 1930s of The Producers News and Farmers National Weekly; his career after 1941 was with the Daily World. Subject files, correspondence, notebooks, typescripts, and published writings regarding the link between communism and agriculture.

Dates: 1930-1979; Majority of material found within 1960-1969

Facts for Farmers Records

 Collection
Identifier: MsC0485
Abstract

Agricultural publication (1935-1962) edited by Charles J. Coe.

Dates: 1930-1990; Majority of material found within 1930-1949

Farmers' Grain Dealers Association Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MsC0141
Dates: 1914-1943; Majority of material found in 1920-1940

Fred Schwengel Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MsC0456
Abstract

This collection is comprised of the papers of Iowa Representative Fred Schwengel.

Dates: 1940-1993; Majority of material found within 1960-1979

Harold E. Hughes Gubernatorial Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MsC0385
Abstract

Governor and U.S. Senator from Iowa. Gubernatorial and senatorial office files relating to his political career.

Dates: 1962-1975

Henry C. Wallace Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MsC0179
Abstract

Second editor of Wallaces' Farmer; appointed U.S. Secretary of Agriculture by Warren Harding (1921-1924). Member of exec. committee of the Roosevelt Memorial Association and of the International Committee of Young Men's Christian Association. Arranged in broad subject categories. The correspondence arranged in chronological order.

Dates: 1904-1930

Henry Wallace Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MsC0180
Abstract

First editor of Wallaces' Farmer. Arranged in broad subject categories and then in chronological order. Available on microfilm for use in repository, for interlibrary loan, and for purchase.

Dates: 1860-1924

James E. Bromwell Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MsC0441
Abstract

Lawyer and U.S. Congressman, 1961-1965. Political and campaign related papers.

Dates: 1959 -1969

James I. Dolliver Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MsC0243
Abstract

Attorney, U.S. Representative from Iowa, and Regional Legal Council for the International Cooperation Administration of the Middle East. Correspondence, speeches, and subject files relating to his career.

Dates: 1923-1962; Majority of material found within 1940-1960

Filtered By

  • Subject: Agriculture X
  • Repository: University of Iowa Special Collections X

Filter Results

Additional filters:

Subject
Agriculture 30
Iowa 16
20th century 13
Legislators 11
Speeches 11
∨ more
Political campaigns 9
Clippings (information artifacts) 6
Education 6
Conservation of natural resources 5
Taxation 5
Agriculture and politics 4
American literature 4
Correspondence 4
Elections 4
English literature 4
Journalists 4
Politicians 4
Publishers and publishing 4
Transportation 4
Writers Archive at Iowa 4
Agricultural laws and legislation 3
Banks and banking 3
Newspaper editors 3
Periodical editors 3
Personal narratives 3
Photographs 3
Political parties 3
Postal service 3
Scrapbooks 3
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 3
Advertising 2
Agriculture and state 2
Agriculture, Cooperative 2
American newspapers 2
Archives (groupings) 2
Audiotapes 2
Business enterprises 2
Business records 2
Businessmen 2
Cedar Rapids (Iowa) 2
Civil rights 2
Communism and agriculture 2
Davenport (Iowa) 2
Des Moines (Iowa) 2
Diaries 2
Drafts (documents) 2
Drug abuse 2
Farmers 2
Henry County (Iowa) 2
Labor unions 2
Lawyers 2
Legislation 2
Manuscripts (documents) 2
Maryland 2
Mount Pleasant (Iowa) 2
Politics, Practical 2
Press releases 2
Public works 2
Red Rock Dam (Iowa) 2
Roads 2
Veterans 2
Vietnam War, 1961-1975 2
Wallaces' farmer (Des Moines, Iowa : 1898) 2
Wallaces' farmer (Des Moines, Iowa : 1959) 2
Wallaces' farmer and Iowa homestead (Des Moines, Iowa : 1929) 2
World War, 1914-1918 2
Advertisements 1
Africa 1
African Americans 1
Agricultural industries 1
Agricultural journalism 1
Agricultural laborers 1
Agricultural prices 1
Agriculturists 1
Airports 1
Alcoholism 1
Apartheid 1
Apportionment (Election law) 1
Arid regions 1
Arid regions agriculture 1
Bettendorf (Iowa) 1
Bills, Legislative 1
Black Hawk County (Iowa) 1
Bremer County (Iowa) 1
Burlington (Iowa) 1
Cape May (N.J.) 1
Cedar County (Iowa) 1
Chiropractic 1
Commerce 1
Communism 1
Congressional committee reports 1
Cooperative marketing of farm produce 1
Copperhead movement 1
Coralville (Iowa) 1
Coralville Lake (Iowa) 1
Courts 1
Crime 1
Criminals 1
Daily world (New York, N.Y.) 1
Democratic Party (Iowa) 1
+ ∧ less
 
Names
Republican Party (Iowa) 5
United States. Department of Agriculture 5
Democratic Party (U.S.) 4
Republican Party (U.S. : 1854- ) 4
Democratic Party (Iowa) 3
∨ more
National Farmers' Union (U.S.) 3
Communist Party of America 2
Abraham, Lot 1
Agricultural Publishers Association 1
American Farm Bureau Federation 1
American Farm Foundation 1
American Grain & Related Industries 1
American Legion 1
Associated Advertising Clubs of the World 1
Beck, Robert Knowlton, 1915- 1
Bert, Erik 1
Bromwell, James 1
Carter, Steven V. 1
Childs Family 1
Childs family 1
Clark, Dick 1
Coe, Charles J. (Charles Joseph), 1908- 1
Committee of Seven 1
Continental Congress for Economic Reconstruction (1933 : Washington, D.C.) 1
Corn Belt Committee 1
Council of Defense in Counties 1
Coverdale, John Walter 1
Cranefield, Paul Frederic 1
Dolliver, James I. 1
Elijah, Earl 1
Facts for Farmers 1
Farm Research, Inc. 1
Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago 1
Harris, Lement 1
Harris, Lement, 1904-2002 1
Howard, James Raley, 1873- 1
Hughes, Harold E. 1
Idaho Farm Development Company 1
Iowa Commerce Commission 1
Iowa Farm Bureau Federation 1
Iowa Farmers Union 1
Jensen, Ben F. 1
Jolley Family 1
Kennedy, Edward 1
Kraschel, Nelson G. 1
LeCompte, Karl 1
Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 1
Mayne, Wiley 1
Meredith, Edwin T. 1
Missouri River Wildlife Association 1
National Board of the Young Men's Christian Associations 1
National Committee on Boy's and Girl's Club Work 1
National Council of Farmer's Cooperative Marketing 1
National Farmers' Holiday Association (U.S.) 1
National Governors' Conference 1
Nixon, Richard M. (Richard Milhous), 1913-1994 1
Ramseyer, Christian William 1
Reno, Milo 1
Roosevelt Memorial Association 1
Schapsmeier, Edward L. 1
Schapsmeier, Frederick H. 1
Silver, Silas B. 1
Tennessee Valley Authority 1
Thorne, Clifford 1
United Mine Workers of America 1
United Nations 1
United States Army. Division, 88th. Infantry Regiment, 352nd, Company K 1
United States Commission on Civil Rights 1
United States Congress. House Committee on Appropriations 1
United States Congress. House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce 1
United States Congress. House Committee on the Judiciary 1
United States Congress. Senate Committee on Armed Services 1
United States Congress. Senate Committee on Foreign Relations 1
United States Congress. Senate Committee on Veterans' Affairs 1
United States Congress. Senate. Subcommittee on Alcoholism and Narcotics 1
United States Postal Service 1
United States. Army. Iowa Cavalry Regiment, 4th (1861-1865) 1
United States. Chamber of Commerce 1
United States. Commission on Intergovernmental Relations 1
United States. Congress 1
United States. Congress. House 1
United States. Court of Claims 1
United States. Department of Defense 1
United States. Federal Farm Board 1
United States. Food Administration 1
United States. International Cooperation Administration 1
Wallace, Daniel A. 1
Wallace, Henry A. (Henry Agard), 1888-1965 1
Wallace, Henry Cantwell, 1866-1924 1
Wallace, Henry, 1836-1916 1
Young Men's Christian Associations of North America. International Committee 1
+ ∧ less