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Arthur Francis Allen Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MsC0357
Abstract

Editor of the Sioux City Journal. Primarily correspondence, with speeches, clippings, and a scrapbook on Abraham Lincoln.

Dates: 1913-1949; Majority of material found in 1919-1930

Conger Reynolds Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MsC0183
Abstract

Journalist, diplomat, and public relations expert. Subject files, correspondence, diaries, scrapbooks, etc. relating to his varied career, from WWI intelligence officer to Chicago Tribune editor in Paris to consulate official to public relations director for Standard Oil.

Dates: 1899-1970

Davenport Besler Corporation Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MsC0081
Abstract

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

Dates: 1909-1955

D.C. Spriestersbach Papers

 Collection
Identifier: RG99.0255
Abstract

Faculty, Speech Pathology and Audiology, University of Iowa, 1940. Dean, Graduate College, 1965-1987. Interim University President, 1981-1982. Reports, memoranda, appointment books, scrapbooks, and correspondence, pertaining to a variety of University-related topics, including advancement of research, anti-war protest, and federal funding for public institutions.

Dates: 1952-2000

Edward J. McManus Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MsC0258
Abstract

Iowa state senator, lieutenant governor of Iowa, Democratic candidate for governor of Iowa, delegate to Democratic National Convention, and U.S. District Court Judge for Northern District of Iowa. Correspondence, speeches, telegrams, campaign material, press releases, photographs, newspaper clippings, tape recordings, phonograph recordings, and scrapbooks.

Dates: 1942-1964; Majority of material found within 1960-1969

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

Fred Dickinson Letts Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MsC0072
Abstract

Attorney, Congressman, and judge. Correspondence, family and personal records, with court decisions and speeches.

Dates: 1841-1965; Majority of material found within 1940-1969

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

Howard Richardson Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MsC0301
Abstract

Dramatist. Subject files relating to his career and personal life, including dra s, photographs, set designs, etc. Much of the collection relates to his best known play, Dark of the Moon..

Dates: 1923-1987

Jay N. "Ding" Darling Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MsC0170
Abstract

Correspondence, speeches, articles, leaflets, clippings, scrapbooks and a sketchbook, mostly dealing with politics, conservation, or family affairs, assembled by newspaper cartoonist Ding Darling of The Des Moines Register. There are also some 6,000 original pen-and-ink cartoons drawn by Darling.

Dates: Majority of material found in 1897-1962

John MacVicar Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MsC0051
Abstract

Record of expenditures for a farm located on Muscatine Island.

Dates: 1881-1952

Lester Jesse Dickinson Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MsC0094
Abstract

U.S. Representative and Senator from Iowa. Speeches, scrapbooks, correspondence, clippings, and campaign material all related to his political career.

Dates: 1898-1955; Majority of material found within 1920-1939

Louis Kehoe Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MsC0219
Abstract

Lawyer and journalist. Primarily consist of manuscripts of his columns for Washington, Iowa's Evening Journal, along with some material from his political campaigns.

Dates: 1930-1960

Nile C. Kinnick Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MsC0112
Abstract

Student leader, scholar, and athlete from Iowa. Correspondence, diaries, scrapbooks, speeches, photographs, articles, etc.

Dates: 1935-1991

Norman C. Meier Papers

 Collection
Identifier: RG99.0163
Abstract

Professor of psychology, University of Iowa, from 1923 until 1964. Designed tests to measure artistic aptitude, and audience response. Correspondence, photographs, lectures.

Dates: 1906-1964

Paul Harvey Cunningham Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MsC0107
Abstract

U.S. Representative from Iowa. Correspondence, newspaper clippings, speeches, news releases, and other documents relating to his public and political life.

Dates: 1940 - 1961

Robert K. Beck Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MsC0394
Abstract

Newspaper publisher in Centerville, Iowa . Correspondence, clippings, speeches, subject files, etc., relating to newspaper publishing, Republican politics, and the Rathbun Dam.

Dates: 1938-1968; Majority of material found within 1966-1968

Sadie Seagrave Papers

 Collection
Identifier: msc0693
Scope and Contents

There are no contents, the information for this collection has been moved to the Iowa Author’s Manuscript Collection, MsC0869.

Dates: -

William C. Jarnagin Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MsC0255
Abstract

Owner, editor and publisher of the Storm Lake Pilot-Tribune and the Storm Lake Register. Small group of papers relating to Jarnagin's newspaper publishing career, including scrapbooks, extra sheets from the Spanish American War, and clippings.

Dates: 1898-1971; Majority of material found within 1965-1971

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