Abstract Editor, publisher and politician, Don Lytton Berry (1880-1974) was born in Indianola, Iowa. Berry was involved in many Republican Party activities both in Iowa and nationally including as a delegate to the 1936 Republican Convention and Executive Secretary of the National Republican Farm Study Committee (1941). He also worked as an editor and farmer for several years before devoting more of his time to politics. This collection contains news clippings, correspondence, speeches, notes, and...

Scope and Contents The collection (1854-ongoing) centers around materials Helen DeElda Gunderson collected in the course of creating her "The Road I Grew Up On" project. Documenting social change from 1854-1997 in rural Iowa, this project was based primarily on events in Roosevelt and Garfield townships, Pocahontas county, though it includes material gathered across the state of Iowa. In addition to the "Road" material, this collection contains materials pertaining to the history and...