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Albert J. Cohen Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MsC0126
Abstract

American motion picture and television script writer and producer. Program scripts, department materials, memos, clippings, notes, correspondence, production budgets, and miscellaneous photographs.

Dates: 1948-1961; Majority of material found within 1951-1955

Alice French Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MsC0605
Abstract

One of the most successful women writers of the later 19th century, Octave Thanet's stories and novels celebrated the status quo; she lived much of her life in Davenport, Iowa. Our holdings consist of a holograph draft of her story, The Governor's Prerogative, photographs, photocopies of other stories, and a microfilm of Voice of Nature.

Dates: 1868-1962

Augustus Sinning Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MsC0391
Abstract

Physician. Correspondence, clippings, notebooks, and other papers.

Dates: 1892-1948

Cedar Rapids Chamber of Commerce Records

 Collection
Identifier: MsC0138
Abstract

Budgets, correspondence, clippings, photographs, and other material.

Dates: 1874 - 1973; Majority of material found within 1935 - 1946

Cornelia Meigs Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MsC0658
Abstract

Children's author and Iowa's first Newbery Award winner. This collection consists of a manuscript and various clippings. Iowa Author Mss.

Dates: 1949

Dante Pierce Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MsC0061
Abstract

Farm editor. Correspondence with State and National Political figures including Smith Brookhart, Calvin Coolidge, Robert LaFolette, Henry Wallace, and George Wilson.

Dates: 1916-1948; Majority of material found within 1925-1945

Davenport Besler Corporation Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MsC0081
Abstract

Business records of a liquidated Davenport, Iowa, locomotive manufacturing company.

Dates: 1909-1955

Dr. Mark Ranney Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MsC0190
Abstract

Physician and book collector. Photographs, financial records, clippings and memorabilia.

Dates: 1854-1909; Majority of material found within 1870-1909

Edward C. Eicher Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MsC0049
Abstract

Lawyer, Government official, and U.S. Representative from Iowa. Correspondence, and speeches, including material on Iowa politics and government.

Dates: 1899-1944; Majority of material found within 1899-1901; Majority of material found within 1935-1938

Edwin Ford Piper Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MsC0040
Abstract

Piper's notes on Western ballads, with music for some; other folk materials including rhymes, riddles, games, folk sayings, quadrille calls, slang, superstitions, and folk remedies.

Dates: 1929-1941

Elbert Family Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MsC0042
Abstract

Legal papers, diplomas, certificates of appointments, scrapbook, 2 issues of Keosauqua, Iowa, newspapers (1852-58), and other papers.

Dates: 1828-1895; Majority of material found within 1850-1869

Eleanor Pownall Simmons Manuscripts

 Collection
Identifier: MsC0698
Abstract

Printmaker and artist, Simmons wrote and illustrated a number of books for children. This collection includes her artwork, typescript drafts, and artist's ephemera.

Dates: 1960 - 1970

Emlin McClain Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MsC0035
Abstract

Lawyer, judge, and professor. Personal and business correspondence, diaries, and speeches on painting. Most of the material dates before 1880, while McClain was a law student at the University of Iowa.

Dates: 1869 - 1915

Frank Emmanuel Stucki Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MsC0090
Abstract

Minister. Correspondence, sermons, and tax returns.

Dates: 1910-1961

Frank Miller Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MsC0659
Abstract

Editorial cartoonist for the Des Moines Register. 100 original drawings, cartoons with over-lays and color processes, engraving printing plates, correspondence, photos and other papers.

Dates: 1951 - 1983; 1960-1979

George J. Schaller Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MsC0833
Abstract

Banker and businessman. Legal, personal, and business papers, as well as correspondence and photographs.

Dates: 1871-1964

Hazel E. Brown Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MsC0573
Abstract

Writer and friend of both Grant Wood and Marvin Cone. The collection contains research notes and manuscripts for the book, as well as clippings about Brown herself. Iowa Author Mss.

Dates: 1926-1973

Henry Agard Wallace Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MsC0177
Abstract

Editor of Wallaces' Farmer 1921-1933; Secretary of Agriculture, 1933-1940; Vice-President of the United States, 1941-1945; Secretary of Commerce, 1945-1946. Includes audio visual materials; clippings; an extensive collection of correspondence, including photocopies of the microfilm edition of the originals in the Library of Congress, Manuscript Division; government documents; personal papers; photographs; research materials, with an emphasis on agriculture, particularly corn, but including livestock, weather, strawberries, chickens, and gladioli; writings, and speeches.

Dates: 1923-2004

Henry Clay Russell Civil War Letters

 Collection
Identifier: MsC0546
Abstract

Russell's correspondence to his sister, Mary, of Crawfordsville, Iowa.

Dates: 1861-1902; Majority of material found in 1865

Iowa Authors Manuscripts Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MsC0869
Abstract

Includes manuscripts, galley proofs, page proofs, dust jackets, and other miscellany associated with publications of many Iowa Authors.

Dates: 1888-1990

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University of Iowa 4
Bissell, Bess G., 1908-1970 1
Brown, Hazel E. 1
Brown, Lewis H. (Lewis Herold), 1894- 1
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Cassill, R. V. (Ronald Verlin), 1919-2002 1
Cedar Rapids Area Chamber of Commerce 1
Clark, Glenn, 1882-1956 1
Cohen, Albert J. 1
Colby, Anthony Owen 1
Cone, Marvin Dorwart, 1891-1965 1
Crary, Margaret 1
Darling, Jay N. (Jay Norwood), 1876-1962 1
Davenport Besler Corportation 1
Davenport Locomotive Works 1
Davenport-Besler Corporation 1
Drake University 1
Eastman, Harold Lloyd 1
Eicher, Edward Clayton, 1878-1944 1
Elbert, John Downs 1
Elbert, S. LeRoy 1
Elbert, Samuel Hitt, 1833-1899 1
Elston, Hattie Phinnette, 1900- 1
Engle family 1
Engle, Paul 1
Engle, Paul, 1908-1991 1
Faulkner, William, 1897-1962 1
French, Alice 1
Iowa Author's 1
Iowa Writers' Workshop 1
Ironmen (Football team) 1
J.N. "Ding" Darling Foundation 1
John Morrell & Co. 1
Johns-Manville, Incorporated 1
Kinnick, Nile C. 1
Kinnick, Nile C. (Nile Clarke), 1918-1943 1
League of Iowa Municipalities 1
MacVicar, John 1
MacVicar, John, 1859-1928 1
Maibaum, Richard 1
McClain, Emlin 1
McDonald, Julie 1
McDonald, Julie, 1929- 1
Medary, Marjorie 1
Meigs, Cornelia 1
Meigs, Cornelia, 1884-1973 1
Miles, Mary E. Russell 1
Miller, Frank 1
Miller, Frank, 1926-1983 1
Morrill family 1
Muehl, Lois Baker 1
Nature Conservancy (U.S.). Iowa Chapter 1
Pierce, Dante 1
Pierce, Dante M. 1
Radio Corporation of America 1
Ranney, Dr. Mark 1
Ranney, M. H. 1
Rohlf, Willam Amos, 1867- 1
Rohlf, William A. 1
Rosheim, David L. 1
Rowan, Edward Beatty, 1898-1946 1
Russell, Henry Clay 1
Russell, Henry Clay, d. 1902 1
Saltzman, (Katherine) Eleanor (1904-1946) 1
Saltzman, Eleanor 1
Saunders, William Irving 1
Schaller, George J. 1
Schaller, George J., 1873-1964 1
Simmons, Eleanor Pownall 1
Simmons, Elly (artist) 1
Simpson, Frank B. 1
Sinning, Augustus 1
Sinning, Augustus, 1864-1960 1
Smith, Grace Noll, 1878-1974 1
Smith, Lewis Worthington, 1866-1947 1
Springer, John 1
Stern, Stewart 1
Stucki, Frank Emmanuel 1
Stucki, Frank Emmanuel, 1895-1961 1
Thanet, Octave, 1850-1934 1
United States Army. Infantry Division, 106th 1
United States. Army. Iowa Infantry Regiment, 2nd (1861-1864) 1
United States. Army. Iowa Infantry Regiment, 2nd (1861-1864). Company H 1
United States. Navy 1
University of Iowa. Department of English 1
University of Iowa. International Writing Program 1
Ver Duft, Lee, 1910- 1
Wallace, Henry A. (Henry Agard), 1888-1965 1
Walsh Construction Company 1
Walsh, Patrick Thomas, 1855-1916 1
Walton, Josiah Procter, 1826-1899 1
Walton, Josiah Proctor 1
Ward, Leo R. (Leo Richard), 1893- 1
Weaver, Clara Vinson 1
Weaver, James B. (James Baird), 1833-1912 1
Wood, Grant, 1891-1942 1
YWCA of Greater Des Moines 1
Zaffiras, George John, 1917- 1
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