The Iowa State Law Library is located on the Capitol's second floor. The law library features four ornamental balconies with spiraled cast-iron railings and circular staircases at each end. The library houses a collection of approximately 100,000…
A portrait of Theodore Parvin is included in the Annals of Iowa article "A Library in the Making: Pioneer History of of the Territorial and State Library of Iowa."
In 1838, Robert Lucas, who had been appointed Governor of the new Territory of…
