Special Collections Department: Archives & Manuscript Collections
Subject Guides


Manuscript collections by subject
For further information on the collections or to discuss the possibility of donating a collection, contact:

 

Tanya Zanish-Belcher, Head 
Special Collections Department
403 Parks Library
Iowa State University
Ames, IA 50011-2140
Telephone: (515) 294-6648
Fax: (515) 294-5525
tzanish@iastate.edu


Manuscript collections by subject 
Click on the subject name for a listing of collections related to that topic

 Aeronautics /airplanes

ms-217

Gilkey, Herbert J.  Airline, Busline and Railroad Schedules

ms-243

Lippisch, Alexander

ms-307

Human computers : the women in aeronautical research

ms-360

Pellegreno, Ann

ms-141

Iowa Aviation Material

ms-325

Robertson, Milton S.

 African Americans

ms-307

Golemba, Beverly E.

ms-314

Carson, Louise A.

 Century farms / family farms

ms-086

Holton Family Century Farm

ms-096

Iowa Century Farms

ms-124

Negus, Jesse

ms-159

Iowa Farm Bureau Federation. Resource Material Unit

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 Manuscript Ledgers

ms-332

Andrews, Elizur Manuscript Business Ledger

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-378

Cookbook Collection

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-173

Garst and Thomas Hybrid Corn  Company

ms-273

Weber, Evelyn J.

ms-304

Adams, William M.

ms-348

Ford, Ellen Lee

ms-409

Pioneer Newsletters (Walking Your Fields)

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

David Garst

ms-639

Stephen Garst

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.

ms-260

Works Progress Administration (WPA). Iowa Photographs

ms-293

Works Progress Administration (WPA). Iowa Craft Project

 Land use

ms-007

Fisher, Sherry Robert [United States.  Public Land Law Review Commission]

ms-021

Darrow, Wayne

ms-033

Berry, Don L. (Don Lytton)

ms-081

Allen, George E.

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

 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.

ms-022

Camp, John E.

ms-028

McNurlen, Keith A.

ms-046

Dewel, Duane E.

ms-063

Darrington, William E.

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

 Local /state / regional political action groups

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-210

Communist Party, U.S.A., State of Iowa

ms-211

Iowa Socialist Party

ms-222

Citizens United for the Conservation of Underground Water, Inc.