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The Papers of Bohumil Shimek include published material and field notes taken by Shimek, assessing geological and botanical features of Iowa counties and other areas of the Midwest around the turn of the twentieth century. The collection also includes a set of his articles, both published and unpublished, arranged alphabetically by title.

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Professor of English from 1920 until 1951. Published on the literature of Quakers.

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Geology professor, University of Iowa, 1953-1978. Publications.

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University of Iowa professor of history, 1902-1949. Research specialty in European studies.

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Founding director of the University of Iowa School of Library Science (later renamed School of Library and Information Science).

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The Carl E. Seashore papers consists of publications, correspondence, and other ephemera relating to the head of psychology and Dean of the Graduate College. Seashore was instrumental in the University's decision in 1922 to accept creative work in lieu of theses for graduate degrees in the fine and performing arts, the first public university in the United States to do so. Notably, this collection contains the "Seashore Measures of Musical Talent," one of the first talent assessments to gain world-wide recognition.

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These papers include correspondence, reports, meeting minutes, floor plans, and campus maps relating to the planning of campus classrooms and dormitories during the 1940s and 1950s. The file labels and alphabetical organization exist as they were assigned by Ambrose. Of note is the 1955 space utilization study, conducted for all offices and classrooms in all campus buildings. In addition to the enormity of the project, this study is noteworthy for the standardization of building names Ambrose apparently brought about. He and his staff found that four resources -- the 1954 Financial Report, the Staff Directory, the Schedule of Courses, and the SUI section of the telephone book -- were not in agreement regarding the nomenclature of some campus buildings (see Box 10, folder 1). This collection provides a view of campus growth, as well as evidence of cooperation between institutions as they grappled with the same challenges.

Photographs: Boxes 13, 20

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These papers describe the work of Dr. Darwin T. Turner and his collections of writings by African American authors. These papers document his development of the African American World Studies Program, within the English Department at the University of Iowa.

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Professor of art and art history. Consultant to National Endowment for the Humanities. Correspondence, administrative records.

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University of Iowa professor in Sociology and Anthropology, 1960-1999. Correspondence, speeches, manuscript, awards.

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University of Iowa professor of psychology and dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences.

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Professor and head of Art Department, 1936-1958. Correspondence, articles, clippings.

Scope and Contents The Joan Mannheimer papers include correspondence and other research material used in the writing of two enclosed unpublished manuscripts, River Rebels in the Barracks: Ceramic Education at the University of Iowa, 1952-1969, and Glenn C. Nelson. Nelson was an instructor in the University of Iowa Department of Art during 1954-1955.Three color photographs regarding potter Tom Mason are enclosed with correspondence to Mannheimer from James McKinnell, who was assistant professor in the UI Department of Art 1963-1968. Black and white photographs are included of Glenn C. Nelson. The collection includes references to barracks, trailers, Quonset huts, and other temporary structures which were constructed on the University of Iowa campus near the Iowa River after World War II. These buildings were initially constructed for the purpose of housing veterans and married students enrolled at the University, but later also served as class rooms and office space for such programs as...

Scope and Contents The correspondence includes determinations of specimen types, exchanges, botanical society business, critiquing of journal articles, recommendations for Martin's many students, and inquiries from the general public. Correspondents include botanical garden personnel, herbarium curators, professors at other universities, government agencies dealing with the study of fungi, foreign mycologists, and his former students. Significant correspondents include Constantine John Alexopoulos, Ruth McVaugh Allen, Gladys Elizabeth Baker, Robert Joseph Bandoni, Ernst Athearn Bessey, Henry Shoemaker Conard, William Bridge Cooke, Richard William George Dennis, Bernard Ogilvie Dodge, Marie Leonore Farr, Joseph Charles Gilman, William Dudley Gray, Clifford William Hesseltine, Herbert Spencer Jackson, Theodor Karl Just, Lorene Louise Kennedy, Donald T. Kowalski, Paul Lewis Lentz, David Hunt Linder, Marcel V. Locquin, Josiah Lincoln Lowe, Bernard Lowy, Thomas Huston Macbride (no letter from Macbride is...

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Professor of Chemistry at the University of Iowa, 1863-1886. Founder of the Iowa Weather Service, the first state weather and crop service in the United States.

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The papers of Roger Hornsby consist of personal and professional correspondence, lecture notes, essays, and book manuscripts. Also included are dinner party records and correspondence written by and received by his spouse, Jessie Lynn Gillespie Hornsby (1917-1993).

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University of Iowa professor of English and instrumental in the founding of the UI School of Letters.

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Professor of mathematics, University of Iowa, from 1918 until 1954. Correspondence and lectures.

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Editorial assistant for the University of Iowa News and Information Service from 1952 until 1958, and administrative assistant in the Department of Physics and Astronomy from 1958 to 1979. Reports, writings, and news releases.