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Theodore Parvin's commission as Iowa's territorial librarian, as proclaimed by Governor Robert Lucas.

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…

The catalog was made in accordance with Section 9, Chapter 184, Acts 14th General Assembly.

No Previous Catalogue of the Iowa State Library exists.

The number of volumes in the State Library in 1872, including duplicates, was about 14,500…