creator:

Cunningham, Jules Cool (1878-1948)

title:

Papers

dates:

1900-1973

extent:

2.05 linear feet (1 half-document box, 2 document boxes and 1 oversized box)

collection number:

RS 9/16/53

repository:

University Archives, Special Collections Department, Iowa State University.

access:

Open for research

publication rights:

Consult Head, Special Collections Department

preferred citation:

Jules Cool Cunningham Papers, RS 9/16/53, Special Collections Department, Iowa State University Library.

Biographical note

Jules Cool (J.C.) Cunningham was born August 12, 1878 in Cedar Point, Kansas.  He received a Bachelor of Science (1905) from Kansas State College (University).

Cunningham was employed in commercial horticultural nurseries in Kansas and Nebraska (1905-1909).  He joined the faculty at Kansas State College and served as an Assistant Professor (1909-1911). Cunningham accepted a position at Iowa State College (University) in the Department of Horticulture where he served as an Assistant Professor (1911-1915), Associate Professor (1915-1916), and Professor (1917-1948).  He also worked in the Bulletin Division of the Agriculture Experiment Station (1935-1948).

Cunningham was a representative on President Harding’s Commission in the organization of the United States Veterans’ Bureau (1919-1920).  He directed the work in agriculture for disabled ex-servicemen at Iowa State College (1919-1926).  J.C. Cunningham died October 23, 1948.

Collection description

This collection contains biographical information, correspondence, committee files, publications, and writings.  The papers include bibliographies Cunningham compiled about swine and corn.  The collection also contains information regarding corn club work and early corn shows in Iowa. 

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1

Biographical Material

1940-1973

1

2

Correspondence

1936-1947

1

3

Iowa Corn Research Committee on Historical Maize Material - Maize Museum

1908-1945

1

4

Publications

1900-1944

2

1

Swine Bibliography Manuscript - Author Index, pp. 1-168

n.d.

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2

Swine Bibliography Manuscript - Author Index, pp. 169-336

n.d

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3

Swine Bibliography Manuscript - Subject Index, pp. 1-155

n.d.

2

4

Swine Bibliography Manuscript - Subject Index, pp. 156-320

n.d.

2

5

Swine Bibliography Manuscript - Subject Index, pp. 320-489

n.d.

2

6

Swine Bibliography Manuscript - Subject Index, pp. 490-717

n.d.

3

1

Swine Bibliography Manuscript - Subject Index, pp. 718-900

n.d.

3

2

Swine Bibliography Manuscript - Subject Index, pp. 901-1046

n.d.

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3

Corn Bibliography Notebook (1 of 4)

1948-1949

3

4

Corn Bibliography Notebook (2 of 4)

1948-1949

3

5

Corn Bibliography Notebook (3 of 4)

1948-1949

3

6

Corn Bibliography Notebook (4 of 4)

1948-1949

3

7

"Down the Path and Up the Brook" (typescript)   

n.d.

3

8

"America the Mother of Maize" (typescript)

n.d.

3

9

Early Iowa Corn Breeders (bound volume)

n.d.

4

1

“Notes on Early Corn Shows and Corn Club Work”

1937

4

2

Photographs of Early Corn Shows and Corn Club Work

1905-1915, n.d.