This collection includes biographical materials, correspondence, agricultural experiment station annual reports, project reports, clippings, honors, photographs, publications, speeches and reference files.They document research on sorghum, bindweed, pericarp in corn, and other U.S. Department of Agriculture/Iowa State College experiment station workings. Included are personal and financial documentation as well as correspondence from other U.S.D.A. Agricultural Experiment Stations such as Hawaii, Nevada, California, Oklahoma, Minnesota, Ohio, Nebraska, and Iowa. Other notable items include materials related to: Coover Recognition Day; Agricultural Experiment Station reports, notes and charts, an assortment of World War II propaganda as well as Iowa State University's involvement in atomic research; four original Henry Wallace works and a small amount of fraternity/secret organizations catalogs.



Correspondents include: A.L. Bakke, Loomis, Melhus, Johnson, Kephart, Munro, T. Spease, N. Hanson, F. Ingram and Iowa State College faculty/administration. Organizations include: American Chemical Society, Osborn Research Club, U.S. Department of Agriculture Bureau of Plant Industry, Phi Delta Chi, Cosmopolitan Club, Chemical Abstracts Service, Phi Lambda Upsilon, and Kiwanis.



Organizations include: American Chemical Society, Osborn Research Club, USDA Bureau of Plant Industry, Phi Delta Chi, Cosmopolitan Club, Chemical Abstracts Service, Phi Lambda Upsilon, and Kiwanis. Other noteworthy items include: Coover Recognition Day; Ag Experiment Station Project Reports, Notes, and Charts; an assortment of WWII propaganda as well as Iowa States' Atomic involvement; four original Henry Wallace works and a small assortment of fraternity/secret organization catalogs.