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Portrait of Theodore Sutton Parvin.

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…

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

Portrait accompanies the article General Robert Lucas: First Governor of Iowa, 1838-1841. Annals of Iowa, 2(6), 1896.