CARDinal: Cyclone Archival Research Database

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This collection contains documents relating to the formation of Iowa State University and various university branding materials such as seals and logos. Types of materials include artifacts, correspondence, and publications.

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The collection consists of scans of a scrapbook from the early 1900's.

Scope and Content This collection (1961-1992) includes correspondence, meeting minutes, and reports related to the Committee of Presidents of Statistical Societies (COPSS). The records are rather incomplete; most of the materials cover just the first several years of the organization. One file contains meeting minutes and reports that corresponds to Lyle Calvin's Chairmanship (1986-1992) of COPSS. The collection also includes historical sketches of COPSS compiled by Ingram Olkin, Chair of COPSS in the...

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This collection contains lecturer information, lectures, conferences, annual reports, programs, and FOCUS grants as well as photographs.

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The collection (1975-1980, undated) contains background papers, correspondence, news clippings, media materials (including a list of the Committee’s radio spots), speeches given by various Committee members, surveys, articles and videotapes. There are several articles and papers written by members of the committee about the Stanley amendment. Other organization materials include informational pamphlets, brochures, and advertisements.

Abstract Common Threads was a small business created and run by Victoria Walch, based in Iowa City, Iowa, beginning in 1993. She produced the Stitcher's Pocket Inventory, a small booklet that helped needleworkers keep track of the fiber and notions they owned. Update packs and expansion packs were added over the years, as well as a booklet that tracked needlepoint patterns. The business was sold in 2000. This collection contains correspondence, sales information,...

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This collection includes correspondence, budget reports, meeting minutes, a press release and the group’s by-laws.

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This collection documents the history of the Conferece of Research Workers in Animal Disease as early as the 1960's, as well as more modern records documenting annual meetings, membership, and council meetings.

Scope and Content This collection (1983, undated) includes correspondence and writings of Conrad Samson. The correspondence mainly concerns Samson’s Land Use Tax proposal. Correspondents include fellow farmers, the South Dakota Rural Project, and journalists who requested copies of his proposal for their use in writing articles. Included also are letters from the Lieutenant Governor, the Office of the Governor, and Iowa’s senator, Chuck Grassley. About half of...

Abstract The Consortium for International Crop Protection (CICP) was founded in 1978 and ceased in 2010. The goal of the CICP was to help countries requesting technical assistance to improve their capability to develop economically efficient and environmentally sound pest management systems. The collection contains governance documents, planning documents, financial and audit reports, Board of Directors meeting minutes, annual project reports, awards, correspondence, contract proposals, environmental...

Scope and Content This collection (1978-1999, undated) contains general correspondence, news releases, statements, hearing testimony, and articles from and about Consumer Alert as well as several in-house publications and newsletters. Consumer Alert's publications in this collection include brochures, annual reports, A Statement of Our Purpose - Consumer Alert, and Five-Year History. Their newsletter, Consumer...

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This collection (1931-1973, undated) consists of pamphlets donated by the Iowa Institute of Cooperation. The collection contains printed pamphlets on cooperation and on cooperative societies throughout the world. Pamphlets on "cooperation" deal with the theory and history of cooperation and the cooperative movement. Pamphlets on "cooperative societies" deal with the nature and organization of cooperative organizations and their laws.

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This collection (1968-1994, undated) contains reports detailing the progress of teachers who had participated in the CUTE program, lesson plans, and guides to aid in educating teachers on how to teach within inner-cities. In addition to documenting the CUTE program at Iowa State University and nationwide, the records illustrate the beginning of a multicultural education movement that is now required in the education of future teachers.

Scope and Content This collection (1875) contains one volume of botanical specimens collected by Cora Belle Keith Pierce. Pierce collected the sixty-three plant samples on or near the Iowa Agricultural College (Iowa State University) campus from April through September 1875 as a requirement for her sophomore year botany classes. Many of the samples are labeled with each plant's order, genus, species, habitat, and date collected. Some items are left unidentified. Several samples, including mosses and some...

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This collection (1971) contains a typed manuscript of Hawkins's book, Buggies, Blizzards, and Babies, published by the Iowa State University Press in 1971. Each chapter is kept separate and the preface, table of contents, dedication, and cutlines for photographs used at the beginning of each chapter are at the beginning of the collection.

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This collection contains records about women’s suffrage organizations in Iowa. All materials are paper documents, including notes, correspondence, an event program, a list of accomplishments, and a certificate signed by Carrie Chapman Catt.

Scope and Content The collection (1948-2018) contains annual reports, newsletters, information booklets and a microfilm of various scrapbooks which contain newspaper clippings, announcements and photographs. The annual reports contain reports on the operations and financial statistics of the Cooperative for that year. The Watts Watt newsletters include news and announcements on maintenance and construction, facilities and lines, meetings, member cooperatives, employees and a...

Scope and Content This collection contains the professional of Cornelius "Conny" Bodine Jr. The professional papers encompass Bodine's work with the Iowa Beef Processors (IBP), time as a city council member in Sioux City, IA, and as city manager of Sioux City and Newark, NJ. Materials from Bodine's work in local government includes research files, building and project proposals, budgets, and administrative and committee records. The IBP records contain economic research, beef...

Scope and Content The collection (1908-1992, undated) documents the club’s activities on campus, in the Ames community and nationally. The early years of the club are mainly documented by the scrapbook, memory book and event programs. The collection does not have any records from the final years of the club. The records include historical narratives, scrapbooks, financial accounts, constitutions, membership lists, brochures, posters, programs, newsletters, and yearly records produced by the club. The yearly...

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This collection (1966-1980) contains course materials and information for classes and department activities, including materials regarding the agriculture travel course.

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David Frame Cox (1931-2009) was a professor of animal science and statistics at Iowa State University from 1960 to 1997. Much of his early work was devoted to the study of swine and the effects of irradiation on swine. The collection contains biographical information; personal course work; notes from Cox's mentor, Cornell University Professor Charles Roy Henderson; reprints of articles written by Cox; course notes from Statistics 401, taught by Cox; and personal research notes.

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committee, and Board of Directors meeting minutes of the Crop Science Society of America. Also included is a proposal and related correspondence regarding a textbook on crop science for college-level instruction under the auspices of the CSSA.

Scope and Content This collection consists of one thirty-six page document where Bussey details his exploits as an officer with the Iowa Cavalry. Bussey refers to himself in the third person in this laudatory discussion of his experience with the Army of the Southwest, including his encounters with Colonels Van Dorn, McCulloch, and McIntosh; Generals Osterhaus, Fremont, Steele, Sherman, and Grant; Major William C. Drake, Lt. Col. Frimble, Captain Thomas J. Taylor, Lt. A. H. Griswold and Union spy William...

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This collection contains the notebooks kept by Dale Madden as a student in Animal Husbandry 655, Genetics of Population taught by Dr. Jay L. Lush. The notebooks include the full course work for the class.

Scope and Content This collection (1917-1999) contains biographical information, correspondence, publications, and research files. Many of Hull's publications on farm machinery, safety, and structures are included. The bulk of the collection contains Hull's research and reference files, which includes information on structures and processing, farm safety, and power equipment and machinery. These files contain an assortment of materials including correspondence, manufacturer's product literature, agricultural...

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Damaris Pease (1921-1991) was a professor at Iowa State University in the Department of Child Development. This collection contains research, articles, correspondence, photographs, and administrative records.

Scope and Content This collection (1915-2004) consists of information regarding Dr. Damon Catron’s work and research with livestock, specifically swine feed and nutrition. The papers contain biographical information, correspondence, course and lecture materials, as well as his publications. The collection also includes documents relating to his research with swine food additives and photographs and scrapbooks from his international consulting trips. In addition, this collection contains photographs (box 1,...

Abstract Dan Shechtman is a materials scientist and professor at the Technion in Hafia, Israel, and at Iowa State University and the U.S. Department of Energy's Ames Laboratory. He received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry (2011) for his discovery of quasicrystals. This collection contains publications announcing both Shechtman's faculty appointment to the Materials Science and Engineering Department at Iowa State University and his winning of the 2011 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. The collection includes...

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This collection (1975-1998) contains class notes and laboratory notebooks compiled during Staedtler's time as an undergraduate and graduate student at Iowa State University. This collection also includes one file of biographical information.

Scope and Content This collection (1915) contains a copy of a typescript reminiscence written by Daniel A. Peterson recalling the events that transpired in his life and especially moments related to life as a pioneer in Iowa. He recalls his parents, his childhood in Sweden, and the move to the United States. He describes pioneer life in Iowa, going into some detail about breaking the prairie sod with a team of oxen and about other struggles faced by immigrant pioneers. He relates a story about a trip down the...