Illinois student who moved to Mt. Pleasant, Iowa.

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

Businessman and proprietor of the Mount Pleasant Free Press. One journal contains Throop's hardware store accounts and recipes kept by Bessie Throop. The other is a record book kept by the Loyal Union League of Henry County, Iowa, 1863-1864, which includes bylaws, meeting minutes, a membership list, etc.

Correspondence, Civil War diaries, military records, business papers, family papers.

Iowa farm woman and political organizer who was active in Roxanne Conlin's gubernatorial campaign in 1982.

Reports of meetings and financial accounts reflect activities of the organization.

Anti-Vietnam War activist whose son, Michael, was killed by 'friendly fire' in Vietnam in 1970.

Copies of the hardcover and paperback versions of "Friendly Fire" and a hardcover copy of "Unfriendly Fire: A Mother's Memoir" are shelved in the printed works collection.

Family papers consisting of correspondence on life in Iowa and Illinois in the Civil War era and beyond.