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Jan 19 2018

2017 Year in Review for Special Collections

Posted on January 19, 2018January 25, 2018 by Colleen Theisen

Left: Manuscripts class with fifth grade students. Right: Center for the Book class.

Photos of the RBMS conference including a pile of tote bags, Janet Weaver presenting at Hancher, an Instagram meetup, and the crowd at the closing plenary.

Photos: Final tote bag pile, Colleen Theisen and Rebecca Romney speaking at Prairie Lights, Janet Weaver speaking about Mujeres Latinas at Hancher, the Instagram meetup, and a crowd scene from the final plenary session.

Filmed about Miniature Books with NBC Nightly News.

NBC Nightly News filmed a segment about the Charlotte Smith Miniature Book Collection. View it here.

Photo of the Dada exhibit in the gallery, an exhibit case full of 1960's underground newspapers and fliers, and a photo of two women looking at the IWA 25th anniversary exhibit

More information about our past exhibitions can be found on the Gallery website pages here: Dada, Alternative Press, IWA 25th. 

Paper of Andrei Codrescu arrived in 2017Read the blog post about this new arrival.

Dada/Surrealism Journal issue number 21 was published.Read the new issue.

This brief chart about purchases will be expanded with a post with highlights from our 2017 donations and purchases. Coming soon!

Follow us on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, YouTube and Tumblr.

Historically Yours the Podcast was launched in 2017. You can listen at http://historicallyyours.podbean.comFollow along here on our blog, on Podbean, or subscribe on your favorite podcast app. 

Old Gold columns can be read via Iowa Now.

hundreds of 1930's-1950's science fiction fanzines were put online. Volunteers can read and transcribe them here: diyhistory.lib.uiowa.edu/hevelinGet started transcribing, or just browse the collection here.

Posted in Year In ReviewTagged acquisitions, dada/surrealism, david mccartney, greg prickman, historically yours, instagram, instruction, Lindsay Moen, margaret Gamm, social media
Sep 11 2012

Unboxing the Hevelin Science Fiction Collection on Tumblr

Posted on September 11, 2012December 2, 2016 by Colleen Theisen
The time has come! The James L. “Rusty” Hevelin Collection of Pulps, Fanzines, and Science Fiction Books is being unboxed and processed. 
 
Special Collections & University Archives is pleased to welcome long-time student worker and avid researcher Peter Balestrieri who is joining our staff as a Processing Librarian and taking on the task of making the collection ready for researchers. 
 
Rusty Hevelin was a science fiction fan, pulp collector, huckster (a dealer at conventions), and voracious reader.  In addition, he was one of the founders of Iowa’s two ongoing science fiction conventions, Icon in the Iowa City/Cedar Rapids area, and DemiCon in Des Moines.   
 
Friends and fans now have the opportunity to follow Peter as he explores and unboxes the collection, on our new Tumblr page where he will post photos and updates, box by box, as the mysteries within are revealed.
 
Please follow along and enjoy the snapshots into the history of science fiction and fantasy literature and fandom in the United States  http://hevelincollection.tumblr.com
 
For more on Rusty Hevelin and his collections please see our April 11th blog post.
 
 
 
Posted in NewsTagged hevelin, scifi, social media, tumblr
Aug 14 2012

150 Years Later a Civil War Story Unfolds

Posted on August 14, 2012December 2, 2016 by Colleen Theisen

In celebration of the U.S. Civil War Sesquicentennial, The University of Iowa Libraries is bringing to life the compelling story of Civil War soldier Joseph F. Culver and his wife, Mary, featuring letters held in Special Collections in the J.F Culver Papers. Letter by letter their story will unfold over the next three years published on a new blog exactly 150 years to the exact date each letter was written.  The blog was launched today with the first letter written 8/14/1862. 

Joseph Franklin Culver (1834-1899) was engaged in banking, insurance, and the practice of law in Pontiac, Illinois, before the war.  An honorable and religious man he was inspired to leave his pregnant wife of less than a year behind to “walk in the path of duty” as a volunteer to serve with the Illinois 129th Infantry Regiment, Company A (August 1862-June 1865), first as a lieutenant and later as captain. Culver so desired to keep in contact with his new wife that he wrote detailed letters multiple times each week sharing his day, news items, and the stories of the men in his company, also men from Pontiac and Livingston County, IL, for the duration of the three years of his service.  

Extensive annotations added by scholar Edwin C. Bearss in the 1970s as J.F. Culver’s letters were turned into a book, Your Affectionate Husband, J.F. Culver, are included to make it possible to follow the dates, names, relationships, and references in the letters. Newly discovered letters and letters from his wife, Mary, will be included in the blog project to make the most complete version of their story to date.

Mary Culver Portrait

A review of the book from 1979 highly recommended Culver’s letters.  “This is a valuable series of letters by an observant and highly literate soldier. In addition, the collection has been edited in impeccably scholarly fashion. The book is thus a revealing as well as useful chronicle of Sherman’s campaigns…The chief value of Culver’s letters is the wide variety of subject matter. Comrades, marches, campaigns, rumors, prices, religion, and general commentaries abound. So do observations on all facets of army life–discipline, conscription, elections, camp life, baggage, shelters, pay, and rations. Added to this are personal opinions on a number of Union leaders.” James I. Robertson, Jr. The Journal of Southern History, Vol. 45, no.4 (Nov. 1979), pp. 612-613. 

Though primarily a story of an Illinois man, Iowa readers should note that Joseph and Mary Culver are great-grandparents to John Culver, former Iowa representative to the U.S. House of Representatives and U.S. Senator from Iowa, and great-great-grandparents to Chet Culver, former governor of Iowa.

View the Joseph F. Culver Civil War Blog.

The book is available from Amazon.com.

 

Posted in NewsTagged blog, civil war, outreach, social media

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