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Agricultural Collections - Historians and Social Scientists
DAHLBERG, KENNETH A. (1935- ). Papers, 1983-1986.
Extent: 2.6 linear feet.
Number: MS-560.
Description: Political scientist. Kenneth A. Dahlberg received a B.A. from Northwestern University in 1957, an M.A. from Stanford University in 1961, and a Ph.D. from the University of Colorado in 1966. He joined the Political Science Department at Western Michigan University in 1966. Dahlberg is the author of New Directions for Agriculture and Agricultural Research: Neglected Dimensions and Emerging Alternatives (1986). Collection includes correspondence, project reports, workshop papers, news clippings, and manuscripts and proofs for Dahlberg's book. Correspondents include Dean Freudenberger and Don F. Hadwiger.
Status: Unprocessed.
Finding Aid: Unavailable.
DRACHE, HIRAM M. (1924- ). Papers, 1959.
Extent: 0.21 linear foot.
Number: MS-490.
Description: Agricultural historian. Hiram Drache was born in Waseca, Minnesota in 1924. He received a B.A. from Gustavus Adolphus College (1947), an M.A. from the University of Minnesota (1951), and a Ph.D. from the University of North Dakota (1963). Beginning in 1955, he taught at Concordia College in Minnesota. Drache is the author of The Day of the Bonanza (1964), The Challenge of the Prairie (1971), Beyond the Furrow (1976), and Tomorrow's Harvest (1978). Collection includes correspondence, notes, and manuscripts of interviews with farmers for Beyond the Furrow and Tomorrow's Harvest.
Status: Container listed.
Finding Aid: Available in Special Collections.
HEADY, EARL OREL (1916-1987). Papers, 1943-1987.
Extent: 14.1 linear feet.
Number: RS 9/2/52.
Description: Agricultural economist, pioneer in development of large scale agricultural planning models, professor of economics at Iowa State University (1940-1983), and first director of the Center for Agricultural and Rural Development (CARD). Born in Chase County, Nebraska, Earl Heady received B.S. and M.S. degrees from University of Nebraska. Heady came to Iowa State as an instructor in 1940, earning his Ph.D. in 1945 and remaining on the faculty and becoming a full professor in 1949. He married Marian Ruth Hoppert in 1941. Heady wrote or co-authored 22 books and more than 750 journal articles and other papers, and published a landmark scholarly work in the area of agricultural economics, Economics of Agricultural Production and Resource Use (1952). Heady was named the first Charles F. Curtiss Distinguished Professor of Agriculture at Iowa State University (1956) and became the first person to receive the Henry A. Wallace Award for distinguished service to agriculture (1978). He received four honorary degrees. His honorary memberships included the Royal Swedish Academy of Agricultural and Forestry Sciences, the Hungarian Academy of Science, and the Soviet Academy of Agricultural Sciences. Heady was a fellow of the American Agricultural Economics Association, the Econometrics Society, the American Statistical Association, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Under his direction from 1958 to 1983, CARD became a premier economic research institute with emphasis on the economics of agricultural production, resource use, and development. More than 300 graduate students, nearly half coming from outside the United States, studied under his guidance. Heady retired in 1983 and died in 1987. Collection contains biographical materials, correspondence, writings, course materials, consulting files, publications, conference materials, clippings, photographs, awards, and honors.
Status: Processed.
Finding Aid: Online.
MCCLELLAND, JOHN B. (1896-1985). Papers, n.d., 1917-1986.
Extent: 0.84 linear foot.
Number: RS 9/6/51.
Description: Vocational agricultural educator. John Barnhart McClelland was born in New Alexandria, Pennsylvania, in 1896. McClelland served with the the Army Engineers in a forestry unit during World War I. His undergraduate education was at the College of Wooster and at Ohio State University, from which he earned a B.S. in agriculture in 1921, an M.S. in 1927, and a Ph.D. in 1940. McClelland taught vocational agriculture at Sidney (Ohio) High School from 1921-1922. He was an instructor in the Department of Agricultural Education at Ohio State University from 1922-1926, serving as critic teacher of vocational agriculture at the Grove City High School and as itinerant teacher trainer. He served as assistant supervisor of vocational agriculture in the Ohio Department of Education (1926-1934); director of Ohio Emergency Adult Education, U.S. Office of Education (1935); and assistant professor of agricultural education at Ohio State University (1936-1938). He was a professor of agricultural education at Iowa State University from 1939 to 1966, when he retired. McClelland was co-author of Adult Education in Vocational Agriculture (1952). He was active in international agriculture, working abroad in Iraq, Pakistan, and the Philippines, where he was associated with the Mountain View College, a Seventh Day Adventist mission college near Mindinao Agricultural College for three years. Collection consists of materials documenting McClelland's time in the Philippines with Mountain View College and the Mindinao Agricultural College; his writings, which largely dealt with establishing agricultural schools in non-western nations; a small amount of biographical information; correspondence relating to World War I and to Iraq (1952); and miscellaneous correspondence.
Status: Processed.
Finding Aid: Online.
MURRAY, WILLIAM G. (1903-1991). Papers, ca. 1957-1989.
Extent: 40.53 linear feet.
Number: RS 13/9/15.
Description: Agricultural economist, founder of Living History Farms, and Iowa gubernatorial candidate. William G. Murray received a B.A. from Coe College (1924), an M.A. from Harvard University (1925), and a Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota (1932). He came to Iowa State University in 1927, with teaching and research interests in farm land valuation and finance. Murray served as head of the Department of Economics and Sociology at Iowa State from 1943 to 1955. In 1935-1936, he was chief economist with the Farm Credit Administration, and in 1948 he served as president of the American Agricultural Economics Association. Murray played a prominent role in the creation and early history of Living History Farms in Urbandale, Iowa. In 1967, he helped organize the Living History Farm Foundation. He served as research director of Living History Farms from 1967 to 1974, and as its president from 1974 to 1981. Murray was also involved in Iowa politics, and was Iowa's Republican gubernatorial candidate in 1958 and 1966. Much of the collection relates to Murray's work with Living History Farms. Included are original deeds, planning statements, brochures, correspondence with supporters and other museums, and materials documenting the 1979 visit by Pope John Paul II to Living History Farms. Correspondents include Rollo Bergeson, Richard Kirkendall, and members of the Roswell Garst and Henry A. Wallace families. Other files document Murray's political career, his research interests, and his publications.
Status: Processed.
Finding Aid: Online.
ROSS, EARLE DUDLEY (1885-1973). Papers, 1903-62.
Extent: 5.25 linear feet.
Number: RS 13/12/23.
Description: Agricultural historian. Earle D. Ross joined the Iowa State University faculty in 1923 and retired in 1958; Ross Hall on the Iowa State campus is named after him. Ross was born in New York and received a Ph.D. from Cornell University. Ross' publications include A History of Iowa State College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts (1942); Iowa Agriculture: An Historical Survey (1951), and The Land-Grant Idea at Iowa State College (1958). Collection includes correspondence, manuscripts, and clippings. Some correspondence relates to Ross' appointment to the Iowa State faculty (1923) and his professional communications with other historians. Other material documents Ross' work with the Agricultural History Society, the American Historical Association, the Mississippi Valley Historical Society, and the State Historical Society of Iowa. Ross' professorships at the University of North Dakota and Iowa State University and his student work at Cornell University and Syracuse University are also documented. The collection includes copies of his Ph.D. thesis on the history of the U.S. Electoral Commission and master's thesis on colonial New York. It contains a small amount of local history material; of special note is "A History of the Town of Ames and the Iowa State Agricultural College." Correspondents include Harry J. Carman, Henry Steele Commager, Richard T. Ely, Guy Stanton Ford, Philip M. Hamer, Fred H. Harrington, John D. Hicks, Harold Ickes, Allan Nevins, Louis H. Pammel, and Louis B. Schmidt.
Status: Processed.
Finding Aid: Available in Special Collections.
SALOUTOS, THEODORE (1910-1980). Papers, ca. 1920-1980.
Extent: 26.67 linear feet (63 manuscript boxes, 1/2 manuscript box, and one file card box).
Number: MS-396.
Description: Agricultural historian and historian of Greek immigration to the United States. Theodore Saloutos received a Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin in 1940. He taught history at the University of Wisconsin (1937-1943), Oberlin College (1943-1945), and from in 1946 until his retirement, the University of California at Los Angeles. Saloutos was co-author of Agricultural Discontent in the Middle West, 1900-1939 (1951) and author of Farmer Movements in the South, 1865-1933 (1960) and The American Farmer and the New Deal (1982). Collection includes correspondence, research files, and ephemeral publications. Also included is a copy of his master's thesis, "The Equity Movement." Correspondents include John Laslett.
Status: Processed.
Finding Aid: Online.
SCHLEBECKER, JOHN T. (1923- ). Papers, 1951-1991.
Extent: 5.04 linear feet.
Number: RS 13/12/24.
Description: Agricultural historian. John T. Schlebecker was educated at Hiram College (B.A., 1949), Harvard University (M.A., 1951), and the University of Wisconsin (Ph.D., 1954). He taught at Montana State University (1954-1956) and Iowa State University (1956-1965). In 1965, he went to the Smithsonian Institution as curator of agriculture and forest production, retiring in 1985. Schlebecker is the author of Cattle Raising on the Plains, 1900-1961 (1963); A History of American Dairying (1967); Whereby We Thrive: A History of American Farming, 1607-1972 (1975); and The Many Names of Country People: An Historical Dictionary from the Twelfth Century Onward (1989). Collection includes correspondence, a photocopied typescript of Whereby We Thrive, files on grant applications and agricultural history organizations, and typescripts of book reviews and other short publications. Correspondents include Angus Cameron, Vernon Carstenson, Milton Colvin, Gilbert Fite, G. E. Fussel, Andrew Hopkins, Harold E. Hughes, Douglas Hurt, Andrew Jewell, Robert Kennedy, John Milstead, William G. Murray, Patricia Nixon, Elaine Rankin, Wayne Rassmussen, Earl M. Rogers, Earle Dudley Ross, Theodore Saloutos, Terry Sharer, James H. Shideler, Neal Smith, Homer Socolofsky, and Thomas Wessel.
Status: Processed.
Finding Aid: Available in Special Collections.
SCHMIDT, LOUIS B. (1879-1963). Papers, 1864-1973.
Extent: 7.77 linear feet.
Number: RS 13/12/22.
Description: Agricultural historian. Louis Bernard Schmidt was born in Belle Plaine, Iowa. He earned Ph.B. (1901) and A.M. (1906) degrees from Cornell College in Mount Pleasant, Iowa, and did graduate study at the University of Chicago and the University of Wisconsin. Schmidt was a member of the History Department at Iowa State University from 1906 to 1952. His publications included Readings in the Economic History of American Agriculture (1925), which he edited with Earle D. Ross, and a number of articles on American agricultural history. Schmidt served as president of the Agricultural History Society in 1933-1934. Collection includes biographical information, subject files, correspondence, publications, news clippings, photographs, and a small collection of campaign literature from 1918 to the 1940s. Correspondents include Ray A. Billington, Harry Elmer Barnes, R. M. Danford, Everett E. Edwards, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Henry A. Wallace. The collection also contains papers of Louis Schmidt's wife, Pearle, including correspondence, diaries, genealogical information, and research files on Antonin Dvorak and Edward McDowell.
Status: Processed.
Finding Aid: Available in Special Collections.
SCHWIEDER, DOROTHY HUBBARD (1933- ). Papers, 1971-2001.
Extent: 2.1 linear feet.
Number: RS 13/12/54.
Description: Iowa Historian. Dorothy Hubbard Schwieder was born in Presho, South Dakota as the ninth of ten children, on November 28, 1933. She received her B.A. (1955) from Dakota Wesleyan University in psychology and history. There, she studied history under George McGovern, later a United States Senator and presidential candidate. Schwieder began her graduate work in 1964, and received her M.A. (1968) from Iowa State University in history, and her PhD. (1981) from the University of Iowa, also in history. Her primary research was in the history of Iowa, touched off by an interest in Iowa’s Amish communities. Schweieder began her teaching career in 1960 as a part-time instructor at Dakota Wesleyan, and in 1966, she became a part-time instructor at Iowa State University. During the 1970s, Schwieder revived scholarly work on Iowa history though her publications and presentations on the subject. She also developed a popular course on Iowa history, the first of its kind at Iowa State University. In 1981, she became an assistant professor in the Department of History at Iowa State, and was promoted to full professor in 1988. Schwieder retired from ISU in 2001. Collection of materials related to two oral history projects. The first is the history of the Iowa State Cooperative Extension Service, which provided material for her book, Seventy-five Years of Service: Cooperative Extension in Iowa (1992). The second oral history project was done for the documentary film, “The Last Pony Mine.” Materials for the history of the Extension Service include transcripts, release forms, and cassette tapes of interviews, conducted by Dorothy Schwieder and Tom Morain from 1987 to 1991. Materials for “The Last Pony Mine,” includereel-to-reel tapes of interviews collected in the early 1970s. Schwieder’s oral histories of coal miners at the New Gladstone coal mine, in Appanoose County, Iowa, formed the basis for the award-winning 1973 documentary “The Last Pony Mine.” The documentary depicted a day in the life of coalminers at New Gladstone, which was one of the last advancing longwall mines that used ponies for underground haulage. The film won the Gold Camera Award at the U.S. Industrial Film Festival in 1973, and the Cine Golden Eagle Award. A DVD copy of this film is available in the Special Collections Department. This collection also includes a small number of news clippings, manuscripts, and articles written by or about Schwieder.
Status: Processed.
Finding Aid: Online.
TALBOT, ROSS B. (1919- ). Papers, 1958-1991.
Extent: 13.42 linear feet.
Number: RS 13/21/11.
Description: Political scientist. Ross B. Talbot received an A.B. from Illinois Wesleyan University (1941) and an M.A. (1949) and Ph.D. (1953) from the University of Chicago. He came to Iowa State University in 1957, and was head of the Political Science Department from 1966 to 1973. His major interests centered on the politics of food production and food distribution. Collection includes materials on the Society for International Development; government agencies dealing with agricultural and environmental issues; grain trade relations between the United States and the Soviet Union; international food and agriculture organizations; Iowa State University's World Food Conference; and the American Political Science Association. It also contains general correspondence and course materials.
Status: Processed.
Finding Aid: Available in Special Collections.