A 1923 horse-drawn float from the Education Department. Two horses are pulling a flatbed wagon with a tiered platform with the words ""health,"" ""citizenship,"" ""life work,"" ""use of leisure,"" and ""citizens in making."" Girls sit in chair on…
A 1923 VEISHEA float from the Department of Chemical Engineering. One student is sitting on the float which is covers with branches and topeed with a large ""cow."" The sign reads: ""Chemical Engineers Improved Cow.""
A 1923 VEISHEA horse-drawn float from the Department of Agriculture. ""The Magic of Milk"" is printed on the side of the float. Men in their dairying uniforms stand beside the float upon which seven women are seated. One woman has a child in her…
A 1923 VEISHEA Chemistry float. The horse-drawn float is mounted on a flat bed wagon. Viewed from behind, Margaret Hall can be seen in the background. See photographs 1722-3-3 and 1722-3-4 for other views of the same float.
The Nite Show event which was renamed ""Stars Over VEISHEA"" started out as student written and student performed musical. Student performers are shown in Scandals of 1922.
In 1980, H. Summerfield Day, the former University Architect (1966-1975) and Planning Coordinator (1975-1980) competed the history of Iowa State University's buildings and grounds. This massive undertaking took him and his assistants twelve years…
Box 1, Folder 11: As president-elect, Welch presents an organizational plan, addressed to the Board of Trustees, for the future Iowa Agricultural College. Welch discusses the college's purpose, courses of study, departments, and faculty.
Box 1, Folder 12: Report discusses the organization, management, instruction, experiments and other aspects of the following European agricultural schools: Royal Agricultral Academy at Poppelsdorf (Germany), Royal Institute for Fruit and Vine…
Box 1, Folder 10: In addition to President Welch's inaugural address, speakers include John Scott (Lieutenant Governor ), Benjamin F. Gue (President of the Board of Trustees), and (Norton?) Townshend. Included is the poem ""The Ideal Farmer and His…
Box 1, Folder 13: Speech given to the State Horticultural Society in which Welch describes the campus in 1869, and how the acres of wild prairie were transformed into a planned campus landscape. He primarily describes building roads and planting…