Scope and Content This collection (1932-1968, undated) consists principally of Allin's writings, including articles, reports, book reviews, addresses, speeches, and lectures. The bulk of these materials document the economics of U.S. agricultural policy and practice, including analyses of land-use practices, forecasts of future economic conditions, and reports on employment opportunities. The collection also contains biographical information, correspondence, Congressional testimony, and writings by others on...

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The collection (1946-1997) consists of records documenting the 1955 visit of a Russian delegation of agriculturalists to Iowa State University. These materials comprise the bulk of the collection and include memoranda, invitations, and itineraries for farm visits. Biographical information and general professional correspondence is also included in the collection.

Scope and Content This collection (1934-1983, undated) contains biographical information, correspondence, college work, research data, publications, and reports of Frank Riecken. The biographical information includes news clippings, faculty information forms, and some personal notes from family members. The collection also contains several files related to Riecken's college work including statistics notes, notebooks, and a copy of his thesis. Correspondence files include letters to...

Scope and Content The collection includes business and personal letters, maps, newspaper clippings, writings, photographs, and a biographical account of Hearst’s life. Series I, Agricultural Delegation trip to the USSR, contains official letters and itineraries that Hearst received prior to the delegation in 1955. Materials from the actual trip include lists of soviet officials, maps, passports, newspaper clippings, photographs, and Hearst’s diaries...

Scope and Content The collection (1920-1984, undated) contains biographical information, correspondence, personal business records, clippings, government documents, and photographs. The bulk of the collection is related to Pike's 1955 trip to the U.S.S.R., including souvenir books, periodicals, scrapbooks, clippings, and photographs. Notebooks contain material related to Pike's undergraduate work, military training on artillery, and professional career. Sporadic information on Pike's land assessment work...

Scope and Content The collection contains general information about the CARD program, including annual reports, a historical timeline, and articles. The bulk of the collection contains records of a project Iowa State University was working on in Russia. The Istra River Basin Small Watershed Management Project began in order to assist Russia to develop ways to improve the water quality of the Istra River by preventing farm pollution run-off. The Istra River basin provides the city of...

Scope and Content This collection (1942-1960, undated) includes biographical information, correspondence, newspaper articles and editorials, magazine articles, speeches, and photographs. The collection contains numerous writings by Russell, both drafts and published, related to his trips to the Far East and Europe to survey farm conditions, the Russian-American agricultural exchange (1955), and the efforts of Wolf Ladejinsky (1953-1959), a land reformer in East Asia. Correspondents include Chester Davis and...

Abstract Agricultural economist and editor at the Des Moines Register and Tribune. Lauren Soth was born in Sibley, Iowa, in 1910. He received B.S. (1932) and M.S. (1938) degrees from Iowa State University. Soth was in charge of economic information at Iowa State from 1934-1947 and was an editorial writer for the Des Moines Register and Tribune from 1947-1954. He was editor of the newspaper's editorial pages from 1954 until his retirement in 1975. Soth received a Pulitzer Prize (1956) for editorial...

Abstract Stanley R. Johnson (1938- ) (economist) received a B.A. (1961) in Agricultural Economics from Western Illinois University, a M.S. (1962) in Agricultural Economics from Texas Technological College, and a Ph.D. (1966) from Texas A&M University. At Iowa State, he was a Professor of Economics (1985-1996), Director of the Center for Agricultural and Rural Development (CARD) (1985-1996), and Vice Provost for University Extension (1996-2005). The collection contains correspondence, project...