James A. Throop ran a hardware business and the Mount Pleasant Free Press, as well as being secretary of the Loyal Union League of Henry County, Iowa in 1864. The Union League supported the United States Sanitary Commission's work during the Civil…
Original artwork, commissioned as illustration for: Sugihara, Yoshie and David W. Plath. Sensei and his people. (Berkeley, Calif.: University of California Press, 1969). Unpublished.
Britta Urness grew up in Black Earth, WI and received her BFA in studio art from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2004. She is currently in her second year of the graduate painting and drawing program at the University of Iowa.
