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Special Collections Department

Special Collections Department - Collections - Manuscript Collections - Subject Listing

Manuscript Collections - Subject Listing

 

Aeronautics / airplanes
  MS 141 Iowa Aviation Material
  MS 217 Gilkey, Herbert J.Airline, Busline and Railroad Schedules
  MS 243 Lippisch, Alexander
  MS 307 Human computers : the women in aeronautical research
  MS 325 Robertson, Milton S.
  MS 360 Pellegreno, Ann
African Americans
  MS 307 Golemba, Beverly E.
  MS 314 Carson, Louise A. and Lucia St. John Cook
Century farms / family farms
  MS 086 Holton Family Century Farm
  MS 096 Iowa Century Farms
  MS 124 Negus, Jesse
  MS 163 Hamilton, Charles K.
  MS 176 Schipull, Rudolf E.
  MS 190 Winborn, John Thomas
  MS 205 Vibber, R. S.
  MS 234 Ullem, Benjamin
  MS 309 Bergeson, Rollo
  MS 311 Ludwig, Joseph
  MS 331 Rudolph, Daniel. Ledgers
  MS 332 Andrews, Elizur. Business Ledger
  MS 355 Burchett, Wayne O. and Gayle Carns
  MS 565 Meade Family
Civil war (United States)
  MS 001 McCall Family
  MS 010 Adams Family
  MS 059 Rayness, Gerard and Velma
  MS 095 Chandler, George W.
  MS 112 Gable, Asenath Hampton
  MS 159 Chambers, John W.
  MS 213 Van Zandt Family
  MS 246 Barker, Celestia Lee
  MS 247 Tilden Family
  MS 587 Hall, L. Stone. Civil War Diary and Transcript
  MS 591 Chapman, Charles W. Civil War Diary
  MS 606 Bussey, Cyrus. Civil War Reminiscences
  MS 637 Neel, George Samuel. Civil War Diary and Related Papers
  MS 646 Robertson, James
  MS 662 Hostetter, John L. Civil War Diary
  MS 663 Sisson, Robert and Mary Ann. Civil War Papers
History of Computers
  MS 267 Hanson, Henry L.
  MS 269 Bradley, Ralph A.
  MS 599 Mollenhoff, Clark Papers
Cooking
  MS 009 Miller, Leroy S.
  MS 237 Food Pamphlet Collection
  MS 246 Barker, Celestia Lee
  MS 271 Watt, Bernice Kunerth
  MS 380 Wartime Household Guides and Recipe Books
  MS 381 Food and Household Product Advertising Guides and Publications
Corn / hybrid corn
  MS 008 Reichardt, William J.
  MS 091 Pascal, Descartes L.
  MS 136 Allee, George M.
  MS 173 Garst and Thomas Hybrid Corn Company
  MS 273 Weber, Evelyn J.
  MS 304 Adams, William M.
  MS 348 Ford, Ellen Lee
  MS 541 Pioneer Hi-Bred International, Inc. Eastern Division
  MS 542 Pioneer Hi-Bred International, Inc.
  MS 200 Associated Hybrid Producers
  MS 199 Seed Company Sign Collection
  MS 590 Garst, David
  MS 639 Garst, Stephen
  MS 579 Garst Family
  MS 642 Garst Company
Depression (economic)
  MS 006 Olsen, Nils Andreas
  MS 044 National Farmers Process Tax Recovery Association
  MS 072 Poultry Science Association
  MS 081 Allen, George E. and Sewell E. Allen
  MS 260 United States. Work Projects Administration (Iowa) Photographs
  MS 293 United States. Work Projects Administration (Iowa). Professional and Service Division Scrapbooks
  MS 409 United States. Works Progress Administration (Iowa) Special Reports and Narratives of Projects
Land use
  MS 007 Public Land Law Review Commission Records
  MS 021 Darrow, Wayne
  MS 033 Berry, Don L. (Don Lytton)
  MS 081 Allen, George E. and Sewell E. Allen
  MS 089 Farmers Transmission Line Suits
  MS 108 Farm Land Preservation Association, Inc.
  MS 152 Samson, Conrad
  MS 156 ReRoute Crude Oil
  MS 206 Texas Soil Conservation Districts
  MS 222 Citizens United for the Conservation of Underground Water, Inc.
  MS 264 Iowa Soil Conservation Districts
  MS 279 Soil and Water Conservation Society
  MS 598 American Society of Landscape Architects, Source File, Women in Landscape Architecture
  MS 612 1000 Friends of Iowa: Citizens United for Responsible Land Use
Landscape architecture
  MS 218 Manning, Warren H. (Warren Henry)
  MS 392 Landscape Architecture Photographs
  MS 598 American Society of Landscape Architects, Source File, Women in Landscape Architecture
  MS 618 Alliance for Historic Landscape Preservation
Legislators
  MS 002 Rae, George
  MS 008 Reichardt, William J.
  MS 009 Miller, Leroy S.
  MS 017 Gaudineer, Lee H.
  MS 018 Harbor, William H. and Floyd H. Millen
  MS 022 Camp, John E.
  MS 028 McNurlen, Keith A.
  MS 041 Scott, George L.
  MS 043 Kehe, Luvern W.
  MS 046 Dewel, Duane E.
  MS 063 Darrington, William E.
  MS 085 Erskine, Alden J.
  MS 257 Iowa Women Legislators Oral History Project
  MS 418 McCartney, Ralph F.
Literature
  MS 139 Nourse, Laura A. Sunderlin
  MS 160 Wilson, Margaret
  MS 228 Hawkins, Cora Frear
  MS 242 Lewis, Faye Cashatt
  MS 303 Abrams, Rochonne Weintraub
Music
  MS 137 Ames International Orchestra Association
  MS 350 Ames Town and Gown Chamber Music
  MS 377 John H. and Helen Wessman Sheet Music collection
  MS 401 Glen Thompson Songbook Collection
  MS 474 Iowa Sheet Music Collection
Political action groups (local / state / regional)
  MS 016 Citizens Committee for a Constitutional Convention (Iowa)
  MS 021 Darrow, Wayne
  MS 044 National Farmers Process Tax Recovery Association
  MS 046 Dewel, Duane E.
  MS 068 Agribusiness Accountability Project
  MS 075 Save the Ledges Coalition
  MS 088 Citizens Committee to Eliminate Litter in Iowa
  MS 092 Iowa Farmers Union
  MS 097 Iowa Citizens to Save the Ledges State Park
  MS 108 Farm Land Preservation Association, Inc.
  MS 125 Iowa Taxpayers Association
  MS 138 Iowans for Returnable Beverage Containers
  MS 142 Citizens United for Responsible Energy
  MS 156 Re-Route Crude Oil
  MS 161 Ames Peace Network. Nerve Gas Taskforce
  MS 168 Iowa Tax Reform Action Coalition
  MS 169 Story County [Iowa] Land Preservation Association
  MS 192 Farmers and Ranchers Midwest Political Action Committee
  MS 204 United Farmers of Story County [Iowa]
  MS 211 Iowa Socialist Party
  MS 222 Citizens United for the Conservation of Underground Water, Inc.
  MS 249 Socialist Workers Party. Farm Protest Group Materials
  MS 300 People United for Rural Education (P.U.R.E.)
  MS 313 PrairieFire Rural Action
  MS 341 League of Women Voters of Ames
  MS 364 Nebraska Sustainable Agriculture Society
  MS 394 Farm Aid Ephemera Collection
  MS 395 Iowa River Greenbelt Resource Trust Records
  MS 396 Saloutos, Theodore
  MS 413 Center for Rural Affairs
  MS 436 National Crisis Action Rally
  MS 444 National Farmers Cooperatives Union/National Council of Farmers
  MS 445 Citizens to End Animal Suffering and Exploitation
  MS 461 Farmers Holiday Movement
  MS 463 American Agriculture Movement
  MS 472 Citizens Against River Pollution (CARP)
  MS 481 National Farmers Organization
  MS 486 Iowa State Grange Patrons of Husbandry
  MS 543 Iowa Student Public Interest Research Group
  MS 548 National Family Farm Coalition
  MS 555 Iowans for Right to Work
  MS 584 Iowan for WOI-TV, Inc., Records
  MS 595 Hansen, Merle
Railroads
  MS 148 Whitley, Guyon
  MS 185 Butts, Albert Parks
  MS 217 Gilkey, Herbert - Airline, Busline and Railroad Schedule Collection
  MS 245 Iowa Central Railway Company Timetables
  MS 571 Railroad Blueprints
  MS 604 Iowa Train Photograph Collection
Religion
  MS 023 Dancey, Jesse Samuel
  MS 025 Nelson, Rev. Laurence N.
  MS 181 Evolution/Creation Collection
  MS 223 Burroughs, Rev. LeRoy S.
  MS 421 Hanko, Charles
  MS 585 Promise, Inc.
Rural communities / families / women / education
  MS 012 Russell, J. Stuart
  MS 091 Pascal, Descartes L.
  MS 145 Iowa School Organization, Inc.
  MS 183 Horton, Iva Brooks
  MS 189 Iowa Farm Bureau Federation Women's Committee
  MS 201 Women's Helpful Birthday Club
  MS 298 Robison, Martha Van Patter
  MS 318 Iowa Organization of Women for Agriculture (I.O.W.A)
  MS 366 Rural American Women
  MS 368 Rural Coalition
  MS 428 Taylor Family
  MS 530 Smalltown, U.S.A.
  MS 600 Rolfe (Iowa) School, Color Slide Collection
  MS 603 Peterson Clothing/General Store (Slater Iowa) Business Ledgers
  MS 613 Iowa Department of Education Home Economics Records
  MS 694 Underwood, Sarah
Underground Comix
  MS 400 Reed Waller Underground Comic Artwork Collection
  MS 630 Geerdes, Clay. Historic Underground Photographs
  MS 636 Underground Comix Collection
Weed Science
  MS 027 Weed Science Society of America
  MS 308 Western Society of Weed Science
  MS 431 Southern Weed Science Society
  MS 476 North Central Weed Science Society
  MS 645 World weeds: natural histories and distribution Records
Women agriculturalists
  MS 023 Dancey, Jesse Samuel
  MS 060 Iowa Master Farm Homemakers Guild
  MS 183 Horton, Iva Brooks
  MS 189 Iowa Farm Bureau Federation Women's Committee
  MS 201 Women's Helpful Birthday Club
  MS 246 Barker, Celestia Lee
  MS 317 Women Involved in Farm Economics (W.I.F.E.)
  MS 318 Iowa Organization of Women for Agriculture (I.O.W.A)
  MS 366 Rural American Women, Inc.
  MS 387 Associated Country Women of the World
  MS 437 National Master Farm Homemakers Guild
Women (social networks / societies / clubs)
  MS 076 Ames Business and Professional Women's Clubs
  MS 140 Hearth and Heather Club
  MS 183 Horton, Iva Brooks
  MS 189 Iowa Farm Bureau Federation Women's Committee
  MS 201 Women's Helpful Birthday Club (Story County, Iowa)
  MS 203 Ames Garden Club
  MS 209 Federated Garden Clubs of Iowa
  MS 265 Iowa Association of Family and Consumer Sciences
  MS 286 Association for Women Geoscientists
  MS 289 Professional Women in ANS (American Nuclear Society)
  MS 317 Women involved in Farm Economics (W.I.F.E.)
  MS 318 Iowa Organization of Women for Agriculture (I.O.W.A.)
  MS 330 Association for Women Geoscientists. Denver Chapter
  MS 340 American Association of University Women, Ames Chapter
World War I
  MS 023 Dancey, Jesse Samuel
  MS 059 Rayness, Gerard and Velma
  MS 213 Van Zandt Family
  MS 221 Gilkey, Herbert J. World War I Memorabilia
  MS 297 Mitchell, Edna Clark
  MS 354 Guernsey, Lamar R.
  MS 380 Wartime Household Guides and Recipe Books
  MS 605 Davidson, Harold French. World War I Letters
  MS 609 Aden Family Photographs
  MS 666 Gordon, Fred O.
  MS 686 Paulson, Aulger L. World War I Letters
World War II
  MS 189 Iowa Farm Bureau Federation Women's Committee
  MS 194 Heywood, Hortense Butler
  MS 294 Hagedorn, Beatrice Mead
  MS 297 Mitchell, Edna Clark
  MS 307 Golemba, Beverly E.
  MS 351 Mather, Katherine
  MS 536 United States v. John David Provoo Collection
  MS 380 Wartime Household Guides and Recipe Books
  MS 388 WWII Ration Memorabilia Collection