{"id":66,"date":"2008-04-08T16:27:37","date_gmt":"2008-04-08T22:27:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/dls\/2008\/04\/08\/66\/"},"modified":"2013-10-30T11:44:43","modified_gmt":"2013-10-30T16:44:43","slug":"66","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/studio\/2008\/04\/08\/66\/","title":{"rendered":"IDL staff pick: James Van Allen with rockoon, 1950s"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>As the Iowa Digital Library approaches the 100,000-item mark, we&#8217;re celebrating this milestonetemp by highlighting some of our favorite items from the collections.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Title:<\/strong> James Van Allen on deck at an arctic rockoon expedition, 1950s<br \/>\n<strong>Creator: <\/strong>Joseph Kasper<br \/>\n<strong>Collection: <\/strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/digital.lib.uiowa.edu\/cdm4\/browse.php?CISOROOT=%2Frescoll\">Research Collections Images<\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/digital.lib.uiowa.edu\/cdm\/ref\/collection\/rescoll\/id\/443\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" width=\"500\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/studio\/files\/2012\/01\/rescoll_443.jpg\" height=\"341\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Prof. James Van Allen adjusting equipment about to be sent aloft during an arctic expedition to launch research &#8220;rockoons,&#8221; precursors to rockets, at the very beginning of the Space Age. The subject matter is of interest to me, but I also like the fact that this image is from a slide taken by a graduate student on the expedition &#8212; it has the feel of a snapshot rather than a more &#8220;official&#8221; photograph, bringing us closer to the historic moment we are witnessing.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8211;Greg Prickman<br \/>\nAssistant Head, Special Collections &amp; University Archives<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the Iowa Digital Library approaches the 100,000-item mark, we&#8217;re celebrating this milestonetemp by highlighting some of our favorite items from the collections. Title: James Van Allen on deck at an arctic rockoon expedition, 1950s Creator: Joseph Kasper Collection: Research Collections Images Prof. James Van Allen adjusting equipment about to be sent aloft during an<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/studio\/2008\/04\/08\/66\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;IDL staff pick: James Van Allen with rockoon, 1950s&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":131,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"syndication":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/studio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/studio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/studio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/studio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/131"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/studio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/studio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3783,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/studio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66\/revisions\/3783"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/studio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/studio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/studio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66"},{"taxonomy":"syndication","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/studio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/syndication?post=66"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}