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
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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”
Happy Fourth of July
The Digital Library Services staff hopes everyone has a great Fourth of July weekend. We hope you have good times with family and friends. We hope you eat good food. We hope you enjoy fireworks displays. And we hope you stay safe.
Korean War
The Korean War started 60 years ago today. I grew up knowing about the war as fictionalized by M*A*S*H. In history class, we never made it that far into the twentieth century and, unlike today, the conflict between North & South Korea never came up in our current events conversations, making it a forgotten war.Continue reading “Korean War”
Ephemeral bovine
It’s helpful for Digital Library Services to examine usage statistics about the Iowa Digital Library to see where site traffic comes from and which collections have more or less hits. Sometimes, it’s just fun to see outside links pointing to unexpected places. The Springer Printing Ephemera is a digital collectiton containing samples from various printing companies,Continue reading “Ephemeral bovine”
1970 Student Protests
Spring of 1970 was a tumultuous time on college campuses. On April 30, President Richard Nixon announced that U.S forces would invade Cambodia because of the recent communist coup. Students around the country protested this escalation of the Vietnam War. On May 4, the National Guard fired on students at Kent State University, killing 4Continue reading “1970 Student Protests”