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American literature

 Subject
Subject Source: Lcsh: Library Of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 220 Collections and/or Records:

Esther Carlson Manuscript

 Collection
Identifier: msc0756
Scope and Contents

There are no contents, the information for this collection has been moved to the Iowa Author’s Manuscript Collection, Msc0869.

Dates: 1947-1948

Eugene L. Burdick Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MsC0574
Abstract

Author and co-author of such books as The Ugly American and Fail-Safe. This collection contains a manuscript for the book The Blue of Capricorn, and the serialized version of Fail-Safe, as well as clippings relating to Burdick. Iowa Author Ms.

Dates: 1962

Evelyn Harter Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MsC0622
Abstract

Harter was born in Keokuk, Iowa. Completing a BA at the University of Iowa in 1925, she moved to New York City where she shared an apartment for a time with Ruth Suckow. Primarily a typographer and book designer, she worked for publishers such as Cape and Smith, Smith and Haas, and Random House. Her first novel, Dr. Katherine Bell (Doubleday, 1950) is partially set in Iowa City. She gave a corrected typescript and a set of corrected galleys just after the novel was published.

Dates: 1930-1999

Evelyn Nelson papers

 Collection
Identifier: msc0671
Scope and Contents

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

Dates: 1925 - 1939

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

Fairfield Daily Ledger Records and Walter Williams Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MsC0155
Abstract

Account books, tax receipts, operating statements, advertising returns, other financial records.

Dates: 1930-1938

Federal Theatre Project Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MsC0314
Abstract

Complete working scripts of 19 produced and 5 unproduced plays. Includes Eugene O'Neill (One-Act Plays of the Sea) and George Bernard Shaw (On the Rocks).

Dates: 1936-1939

Federal Writer's Project Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MsC0295
Abstract

Subject files on Iowa history, counties, towns, colleges, churches, and other matters, unpublished manuscripts, radio scripts, pamphlets, and newspaper clippings.

Dates: 1923-1939; Majority of material found within 1936-1937

Frances Lynch McGuire Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MsC0652
Scope and Contents

Wagon to a Star, a collection of stories about life on an Adair County farm in the 1870s.

Dates: -

Francis O. Wilcox Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MsC0727
Abstract

Educator, United States government official (Senate Foreign Relations Committee chief of staff, 1947-1955; Assistant Secretary of State, 1955-1961). Correspondence, subject files, lecture notes, speeches, and preliminary drafts of articles.

Dates: 1929-1985

Frank Luther Mott Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MsC0664
Abstract

Journalism professor and dean. Mott is best remembered for his writing on the history of American newspapers. He also wrote numerous stories, plays and novels, and drafts of which are preserved in this collection.

Dates: 1918 - 1963

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

Frank Nye Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MsC0437
Abstract

Reporter and editor for The Cedar Rapids Gazette. Correspondence, subject files, and photographs relating to Nye's career with the Gazette. Includes information on Iowa politics and legislature, reapportionment, Herbert Hoover, and copies of articles written by Nye.

Dates: 1942-1983

Frank Simpson papers

 Collection
Identifier: msc0699
Scope and Contents

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

Dates: 1944

Frank Starzell Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MsC0231
Abstract

General manager of Associated Press. The scrapbooks contain photographs, speeches, press releases, and articles from his career with the Associated Press.

Dates: 1942-1959

Frederick Stern Bock Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MsC0567
Abstract

Poet , Assistant Editor Poetry Fountains of Regardlessness (1961). Correspondence, subject files, and preliminary drafts of his writings.

Dates: 1935-1980

Gar Osten Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MsC0672
Abstract

Astrologer. Papers include correspondence, interviews, tape recordings, astrological charts, and materials relating to a number of criminal investigations in which Osten participated as well as his writings.

Dates: 1851 - 1989; 1970-1989

George J. Zaffiras Manuscripts

 Collection
Identifier: msc0736
Scope and Contents

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

Dates: -

George M. Sheets Papers

 Collection
Identifier: msc0694
Scope and Contents

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

Dates: -

George Stimpson Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MsC0704
Abstract

Journalist, writer, and President of the National Press Club. Manuscripts for four of his informational books. Iowa Author

Dates: Undated