The Iowa Women’s Archives and University of Iowa Libraries are marking Women’s Equality Day—Friday, Aug. 26—by unveiling a new digital collection documenting the decades-long campaign by Iowa women to gain the right to vote. The Women’s Suffrage in Iowa Digital Collection is the culmination of a yearlong project to select and scan photographs, letters andContinue reading “Women’s Suffrage in Iowa: an online exhibit & digital collection”
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Hear Iowa City readings from the new U.S. Poet Laureate
Iowa Writers’ Workshop graduate Philip Levine (57MFA), “best known for his big-hearted, Whitmanesque poems about working-class Detroit” was named the new U.S. Poet Laureate today. “I find him an extraordinary discovery because he introduced me to a whole new world I hadn’t connected to in poetry before,” James Billington, the librarian of Congress, told the New York TimesContinue reading “Hear Iowa City readings from the new U.S. Poet Laureate”
Root Beer
Nothing goes together with summertime like root beer. And given this summer, the colder the better. The Nourished Kitchen blog published a recipe for homemade root beer, and in describing the history of the beverage, pointed to a delightful 1891 pamphlet for Hires’ Root Beer from the Szathmary Recipe Pamphlet digital collection from the Iowa DigitalContinue reading “Root Beer”
Tweeting Civil War diaries
It took some 19th-century journals to drag us into using the 21st-century equivalent, but we’re finally on Twitter. Follow us at UIL-transcripts, or drop by the Civil War Diaries Transcription Project site to read our Tweets and see other enhancements, including newly-added diaries and an improved design (we’re still smarting from the old version being comparedContinue reading “Tweeting Civil War diaries”
Byron Burford’s work in the UIMA digital catalog
Late yesterday, the University of Iowa Museum of Art announced the passing of Byron Burford, Professor of Art at the University of Iowa for nearly 40 years. He died on Friday, June 17, at the age of 90. According to the UIMA, Buford was originally from Mississippi and came to Iowa City to study with Grant Wood. “AfterContinue reading “Byron Burford’s work in the UIMA digital catalog”
Stradivari Quartet recordings now available online
Forty-four years after its first public performance, the Stradivari String Quartet now has audio recordings from 1963-1996 publicly available in the Iowa Digital Library at http://digital.lib.uiowa.edu/strad. The collection is part of the Iowa Sounds Digital Collection, a growing digital repository of audio recordings that documents the musical and cultural heritage of the University of IowaContinue reading “Stradivari Quartet recordings now available online”
Commemorating Civil War sesquicentennial with digital collection & crowdsourcing effort
University of Iowa Libraries has launched a new exhibition and digital collection to commemorate the sesquicentennial of the Civil War, and it’s enlisting the help of a few good men and women (well, lots, really) to help make the collection even more accessible and useful. The exhibition, “‘Now Do Not Let Your Courage Fail’: VoicesContinue reading “Commemorating Civil War sesquicentennial with digital collection & crowdsourcing effort”
Improved searching of Wallace Collection
We have recently improved the searching of our Henry A Wallace Collection. This enhancement makes finding letters, telegrams, postcards or memorandum much easier. In 1975, Earl M. Rogers and Leslie W. Dunlap published an index to the letters in our microfilm collection as well as to the correspondence in the Franklin D. Roosevelt Library (MicroContinue reading “Improved searching of Wallace Collection”
Scottish Highlanders
Posing with bass drum, 1948 Local readers may have heard a report on Iowa Public Radio this morning about the Scottish Highlanders, The University of Iowa’s all-female bagpipe band. For those of you who want to know more, several hundred photos of the group can be viewed in the Iowa City Town and Campus Scenes digital collection.Continue reading “Scottish Highlanders”
Portraits in conversation
The University of Iowa Libraries is pleased to announce the launch of its latest digital collection, Félix de la Concha’s Portraits in Conversation: http://digital.lib.uiowa.edu/felixdelaconcha De la Concha is a painter who creates multidimensional portrayals of his subjects while conducting and recording interviews about their life, work, and views on art. The collection features Spanish-language interviewsContinue reading “Portraits in conversation”