Image - two mystical figures seated on flowers, lute player and singer, with cherub supporting the flower stems; banner "ELI SABETH"; initials WS at bottom of image
Image - foreground is a knight with a lance, at top of lance a banner "Frank B. Rae, Jr."; background has two winged lions supporting a portrait, Literature on the left and Art on the right; between the portraits is an ancient open book; below the…
Contoured watershed on L.C. Shivvers' farm in Knoxville, Iowa. Farm maintained by Leo Goad and Howard Shannon. This 50 - acre cornfield received 3 - inch rains in 8 days. No washing. Contouring and grassed waterway shown in the foreground of the…
Contour farmng on Cyril Rees' farm NE of Pleasantville in Marion County, Iowa. 25 acre field seeded to oats on contour with buffer strips following corn in 1943. Buffers and waterways seeded in 1941. Very little erosion.
Erosion on Van Roekel farm 3 miles South of Monroe in Marion County, Iowa. No grassed waterway. Oats planted up and down hill. Silt fan formed below 2 foot gully. 20 tons soil lost per acre.
Erosion on Mike Murphy's estate 5 miles East of Pleasantville in Marion County, Iowa. Silting and erosion from heavy rain on a 4% slope. Estate is maintained by John Flahive.
Erosion on Joe M. Johnston's farm 10 miles NW of Knoxville in Marion County, Iowa. Every other row of corn washed out of this 40-acre field. Worked and planted up and down hill 30 to 40 tons of soil loss per acre.
Bill Young, son-in-law of Ernest Harms approaching a bromegrass waterway with a tractor. The waterway is used as a turnstrip in cultivating corn, in Underwood, Iowa.
Image - windblown maiden reading a scroll, flanked by to classical vases with vines climbing columns to a banner above her head "Harriet Cecile Kelley"; below "Ex Libris"; artist W.J. Enright engraved below.
