Browse Collections (262 total)

Over the past century, many towns, organizations, and churches in Iowa have gathered recipes from members and published them, essentially preserving…

Johnny (Jack) Trice was born in Hiram, Ohio in 1902. In 1922, Trice became the first African-American student athlete at Iowa State, participating in…

John Vincent Atanasoff is known as the father of the computer. With the help of one of his students Clifford E. Berry, in Iowa State College, during…

Ada Hayden (1884-1950) was born on August 14, 1884 in Ames, Iowa. She earned a Bachelor of Science (1908) and Doctor of Philosophy (1918) degrees at…

Adonijah Welch was born in East Hampton, Connecticut. He moved to Jonesville, Michigan in 1839 and graduated from the University of Michigan in 1846.…

The Alexander Lippisch Collection contains photographs and drawings of his work in aeronautical engineering.

Lippisch designed sailplanes and…

The Iowa Agricultural College newspaper "The Aurora" was published monthly by the students for the four literary societies on campus (The Philomathean…

During World War II, the Curtiss-Wright Company experienced a shortage of engineers. In 1943, They set up programs to train women to become engineers…

This is a miscellaneous collection of historical documents written over the years about the early years of Iowa State University.

The Descartes Pascal digital collection contains a selection of images from the glass plate negative collection documenting rural life in Iowa around…