We were delighted to run across this blog post from writer, editor, and UI alum Alison Feldmann on the IDL’s Historic Iowa Children’s Diaries digital collection. We have a deep love for historic diaries as well, and we’re currently hard at work developing a site that will allow the public to help enhance our collections through “crowdsourcing” or collaborative transcriptionContinue reading “Dear Diary”
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Happy autumn
Celebrate the start of fall with these images from the Iowa Digital Library: Harvest Aglow by Douglas Eckheart, 2005 Fall picnic, Iowa, 1910s Editorial cartoon by Ding Darling, Nov. 1904 Postcard from Epworth, Iowa, 1910 Page from Helen Grundman’s 4-H scrapbook, Prescott, Iowa, 1931
Historic photos of UI child development studies featured in online exhibit
Frederick Kent’s “Colleges and Departments” photograph series, covering the early to mid-20th century and housed in the University Archives, is the definitive pictorial history of academics at The University of Iowa. But among expected subject matter like scholars, scientists, and artists, one might be surprised to find over 500 images of infants, toddlers, and preschoolers.Continue reading “Historic photos of UI child development studies featured in online exhibit”
Getting Ames’ goat again
Congrats to the Hawkeyes for Saturday’s win over Iowa State — the latest in a long line, as shown in these images from the Iowa Digital Library: Parade, The University of Iowa, 1920s Freshman engineers, Nov. 18, 1911 Victory bonfire by the Pentacrest, Nov. 13, 1909 Touchdown, Nov. 4, 1933
Student contest: Iowa City Then & Now
Get to Know Iowa City, Flex Your Creative Muscles, Win Fame and Prizes! As you’re getting to know Iowa City, you’re finding new places and people. What did those places look like in the past? Who were the people? Now it’s your turn to make your mark on the Iowa City landscape. Choose a historicalContinue reading “Student contest: Iowa City Then & Now”
Scandalous artifacts
The UI Libraries is proud to be a part of “Scandal!”, the featured exhibit at the Museum of American Finance in New York: “From betrayals of the public trust by government officials to betrayals of investors by Ponzi artists, and from corporate accounting fraud to egregious failures of risk management in more recent years, ‘Scandal!’Continue reading “Scandalous artifacts”
Plaid Sweater returns!
After being displaced along with the rest of the UI Museum of Art in the 2008 floods, Grant Wood’s celebrated 1931 painting Plaid Sweater is back in town. For those of you unable to drop by its new home in the student union’s Richey Ballroom, it’s one of the nearly 10,000 items available for browsing in the Iowa Digital Library’sContinue reading “Plaid Sweater returns!”
Jumping into a new school year
… with these inspirational images from the Iowa Digital Library. High jump, The University of Iowa, 1926 Pole vault, The University of Iowa, 1894 Mildred Wirt Benson in mid-dive, Iowa River, ca. 1925 Blanket toss at cadet camp, The University of Iowa, 1912
Heavy bike traffic ahead
RAGBRAI sign by Michael W. Lemberger, July 2009 Good luck to everyone on RAGBRAI! For those of you unable to race your bike across Iowa, please enjoy vicarious cycling with these historic images from the Iowa Digital Library. “WAC messengers ride bikes in parade,” Des Moines Register, Aug. 1943 “By the way, how about a place inContinue reading “Heavy bike traffic ahead”
Digitally celebrating books, reading, and writing
In honor of the upcoming Iowa City Book Festival (July 16-18, 2010), we’re featuring some of the literary collections in Iowa Digital Library and Iowa Research Online. We hope you’ll explore the content online and the book fest in real life. Paul Engle teaching at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, The University of Iowa, ca. 1950s View similarContinue reading “Digitally celebrating books, reading, and writing”