University of Northern Iowa

Manuscripts

The SC&UA staff has created finding aids for many manuscript collections. Most of of the finding aids for manuscripts collections are online here in this list, and many are available in the Rod Library Special Collections reading room in hard copy. As time permits, the staff will add more of these finding aid to the SC&UA website. Please also note that our Information File may contain items that serve as good starting points for research in the Manuscripts Collections.

Manuscripts
Code Finding Aid Title Extent
MsC-1 Iowa Education Media Association Papers, 1921- 93 boxes and one item (43.20 linear feet) plus one oversize folder (3.58 linear feet)
MsC-1 [Box 27 onward] Iowa Children's Choice Award and Iowa Teen Award Inventory
MsC-2 Iowa Association for Counseling and Development Papers, ca. 1940-1992 64 boxes (26.688 linear feet)
MsC-3 Iowa Vocational Association Records, 1949-1977 13 boxes plus one item (5.838 linear feet)
MsC-4 Waterloo Urban Ministry Records, 1968-1978 9 boxes (3.753 linear feet)
MsC-5 College Hill Interdenominational Church Records, 1926-1966 10 boxes plus one item (3.753 linear feet)
MsC-6 Iowa Committee on Secondary Schools and College Relations, 1911-1965 68 boxes (28.356 linear feet)
MsC-7 Lindsay Seals lecture notebook, 1839-1840 1 box (0.209 linear feet)
MsC-8 The Teacher and Parent: A Treatise Upon Common-school Education, 1853 1 box (0.209 linear feet)
MsC-9 College Hill Merchants Association Records, ca. 1968-1978 1 box (.0417 linear feet)
MsC-10  Diane Brandt Papers, 1974- 10 boxes (4.17 linear feet)
MsC-11 Black Hawk-Bremer League of Women Voters Records, 1952-2019 15 boxes (6.26 linear feet)
MsC-12 Black Hawk County Medical Society Records, 1876-1969 2 boxes (0.834 linear feet)
MsC-13 Siberius Y. Saito Sketches, 1942 1 box (0.209 linear feet)
MsC-14 Bryan-Chehock Family History, 1897-1997 1 box (0.209 linear feet)
MsC-15 Cottontop Cooperative Society Records, 1976-1984 4 boxes (2.36 linear feet)
MsC-16 Flora L. Bailey Papers, 1939-1949 2 boxes (0.834 linear feet)
MsC-17 Iowa Association of Cooperative Education Records, 1978-1980 1 box (0.209 linear feet)
MsC-18 Wynegar Oral History Collection, 1970-1991 1 box (0.209 linear feet)
MsC-19 James T. Martin, Sr.. “Learning the ‘Wright’ Way,” 1998 1 box (0.209 linear feet)
MsC-20 Iowa Civil Liberties Union Records 90 linear feet plus one item
MsC-21 Iowa Historical Materials Preservation Society, 1976-1984 5 boxes (2.085 linear feet)
MsC-22 Peter Hoffman Papers, 1962-1968 1 box (0.63 linear feet)
MsC-23 William L. Cramer Papers, 1973 1 box (0.209 linear feet)
MsC-24 Collection of Old Newspapers and Periodicals, 1978 - 2009 11 boxes (18.979 linear feet)
MsC-25 Steven Maravetz Manuscript, "History of Minor League Baseball in Waterloo, Iowa, 1904-1918 1 box (0.209 linear feet)
MsC-26 Willard R. Hansen Papers, 1971-1981 8 boxes (3.13 linear feet)
MsC-27 Joe Berg Foundation Science Seminar, Papers, 1959-1968 1 box (0.209 linear feet)
MsC-28 Ted J. Anderson Papers, 1977-1984 11 boxes (13.75 linear feet)
MsC-29 Elizabeth C. Harnack Diary, 1907-1908 1 box (0.209 linear feet)
MsC-30 Charles E. Grassley Papers 251.54 linear feet
MsC-31 Women in Communications, Northeast Iowa Chapter, 1976-1998 11 boxes (5.55 linear feet)
MsC-32 Farm Crisis Collection, ca. 1979-1989 6 boxes (2.5 linear feet)
MsC-33 Iowa Association for Health, Physical Education, Recreation, and Dance Papers, 1952-ca. 2004 27 boxes (11.259 linear feet)
MsC-34 Central District Association of the American Alliance for Physical Education, Recreation, and Dance Papers, ca. 1933-2012   25 boxes (30 linear feet) and 1 pdf
MsC-35 Iowa Natural History Association Records, 1980-1994 1 box (0.209 linear feet)
MsC-36 Ruth Suckow Papers 1 box (1.104 linear feet)
MsC-37 Wilma Leslie Garnett Collection, ca. 1955-1979 11 boxes (5.9 linear feet)
MsC-38 Eugene Francis Grossman Papers, 1896-1965 5 boxes (6.73 linear feet); 2 oversize items (3.58 linear feet)
MsC-39 Ida Dytch Correspondence, 1900-1901 1 box (0.209 linear feet)
MsC-40 Louis Krauss and Emil Seifert Amana Society Account Books, 1890-1932 1 box (0.209 linear feet)
MsC-41 Papers of Indenture, England 1667 1 box (0.209 linear feet)
MsC-42 Grace Myers Elliott Papers, 1907-1960s 1 box (0.209 linear feet)
MsC-43 Illinois Central Railroad Rules and Regulations Books, 1920-1942 1box (0.209 linear feet)
MsC-44 Betty Jean Furgerson Interview, 1992 1 box (0.209 linear feet)
MsC-45 "Century of Progress" Guides and Souvenirs, 1933 1 box (0.209 linear feet)
MsC-46 George Poage, German Pamphlet Collection, 1848-1961 1 box (0.209 linear feet)
MsC-47 Grade and Attendance Book, Happy Hollow School No. 9, O'Brien County, Iowa, 1937-1945 1 box (1.729 linear feet)
MsC-48 Lynn Cutler papers 24 boxes (28.58 linear feet) plus 1 oversize folder (3.58 linear feet)
MsC-49  Donald Dean Avenson Papers, ca. 1966-1990 24 boxes (30 linear feet)
MsC-50 Clarence Baldwin, History of the Waterloo Public Library, ca. 1984-1985 1 box (0.21 linear feet)
MsC-51 June Walter Bryan, “Memories of Clarke County, Iowa One-Room Rural Schools, 1924-1942” 1 box (0.21 linear feet)
MsC-52 American Federation of Musicians, Waterloo Local 334 and Oelwein Local 483 Papers, 1922-1993 10 boxes (6.25 linear feet)
MsC-53 William George Witt Papers, 1993-2003 17 boxes (21.25 linear feet)
MsC-54 Leon Mosley Papers, 1983-2003 22 boxes (13.34 linear feet)
MsC-55 Freisian Family Collection, ca. 1874-1940 1 box (0.21 linear feet)
MsC-56 Elizabeth Baird Bennett-Harriet Brainard Correspondence, 1896-1897 1 box (0.21 linear feet)
MsC-57 Roy White Interview, 1998 1 box (0.21 linear feet)
MsC-58 Citizens for Peace Collection 2 boxes (0.834 linear feet)
MsC-59 Richard Panek Papers, 1983-1995 5 boxes (6.52 linear feet)
MsC-60 Irma Dovey Papers, 1918-2003 8 boxes (3.336 linear feet)
MsC-61 William Thomas Pettit Papers, 1949-1995 17 boxes (21.25 linear feet)
MsC-62   Cedar Arts Forum, Records, Publications, and Papers, 1959-1998   31 boxes (39.834 linear feet); 3 oversize items (3.58 linear feet)
MsC-63 Baby Care Pamphlets, 1951-1961 1 box (0.21 linear feet)
MsC-64 Adene Sadie Kerstetter Leupold Papers, ca. 1930-1940 7 boxes (8.02 linear feet)
MsC-65 College Hill Arts Festival Records, ca. 1978-2014 21 boxes (21.813 linear feet); 2 oversize items (3.58 linear feet)
MsC-66 Miller Family Papers, 1882-1977 5 boxes (5.4 linear feet)
MsC-67 Practical Discourses on the Virtues and Duties of the Monastic State, by a monk of Melleray Abbey, 1826 1 box (0.42 linear feet)
Msc-68 Jerré Tanner Collection 45 boxes (42.18 linear feet); 14 oversize items (3.58 linear feet)
MsC-69 Harvey J. Hess, III, Collection, 1946-2012 14 boxes (18.04 linear feet); 1 oversize item (3.58 linear feet)
MsC-70 Iowa Girls High School Athletic Union, Track and Field Advisory Committee records, 1968-2004 1 box (1.25 linear feet)
MsC-71 Agnes Ann Hanus Luze Collection 3 boxes (1.04 linear feet)
MsC-72 Letter from John Ruskin, 1864 1 box (0.21 linear feet)
MsC-73 Letter regarding first surgical use of ether, 1899 1 box (0.21 linear feet)
MsC-74 Letter from Clara Barton to Fitzroy Sessions, 1906 1 box (0.21 linear feet)
MsC-75 Cedar Valley Chamber Music Festival Collection, 2006-2011 1 box (0.21 linear feet)
MsC-76 Central Association for Physical Education in Higher Education Records, 1971-1990 1 box (1.25 linear feet)
MsC-77 C. Hugh Pettersen Papers, 1979-2005 6 boxes (2.29 linear feet)
MsC-78 Iowa Mathematics and Science Coalition Records, 1990-2011  6 boxes (7.5 linear feet)
MsC-79 Ella Pullman's Teaching Certificates, 1876-1901 1 box (0.21 linear feet)
MsC-80 Hovey Brom Architectural Collection, ca. 1960s-1980s  2 boxes (0.83 linear feet)
MsC-81 May E. Francis Collection, 1864-ca. 1968 1 box (1.25 linear feet)
MsC-82 Robert W. Cox Railroad Collection, ca. 1906-1998 32 boxes (37.60 linear feet) plus 1 oversize folder (3.58 linear feet)
MsC-83 John Paul Thomas Collection, ca. 1948-2001 21.83 linear feet plus 5 items, 20 boxes
MsC-84 Wagoner World War II Correspondence, 1935-1946 6 boxes (2.502 linear feet)
MsC-85 Mary T. O'Halloran Papers, 1954-1978  14 boxes (17.5 linear feet)
MsC-86 Anna Flom School Attendance Certificates, 1919, 1921-1922 .25 linear feet
MsC-86 Robert James Waller "Bridges of Madison County" typescript 0.209 linear feet
MsC-87 Christian F. M. Westphal Immigrant and Family Correspondence, 1856-1918 2 boxes (0.83 linear feet)
MsC-88 Gary Lettow Collection, 1865-2012 10 boxes (10.75 linear feet)
MsC-89 Joy Corning Papers
MsC-90 Iowa Bandmasters Association Collection 1 box (0.42 linear feet)
MsC-91 Jon T. Crews Papers 1 box (0.21 linear feet)
MsC-92 Century of Progress - Chicago World's Fair Collection 1 box (0.42 linear feet)
MsC-93 Black Hawk County Toastmasters Records, 1946-1965 3 boxes (1.04 linear feet)
MsC-94 Muggletonian Literature Collection 2 boxes (0.42 linear feet)
MsC-95 Allen Ginsberg poem 1 box (0.21 linear feet)
MsC-96 Sturm Family Collection 9 boxes (5.09 linear feet); 2 oversize items (3.58 linear feet)
MsC-97 Daisy Wright Scrapbook, 1944 1 box (1.08 linear feet)
MsC-98 Religion & Education Records 20 boxes (8.34 linear feet)
MsC-99 Eddy family papers 2 boxes (0.63 linear feet)
MsC-102 Iowa and Cedar Valley small collections 35 boxes (15.68 linear feet); 1 oversize folder (3.58 linear feet)
MsC-102 [Box 35-36] Cedar Falls Historical Society Oral History Interviews, 1963-1995. 2 boxes (0.42 linear feet)
MsC-103 William H. Merner Papers, ca. 1917-1965 2 boxes (0.67 linear feet)