University of Northern Iowa

Manuscripts

The Special Collections staff has created guides to many archival series and manuscript collections. All of these guides are available in the Rod Library Special Collections room. Versions of some of these guides are also available here. As time permits, the staff will add more of these guides to the Special Collections Web pages.

Manuscripts
Code Finding Aid Title Extent
Hovey Brom Architectural Collection 1 linear foot
06/03/22 Register's Annual Great Bike Ride Across Iowa (RAGBRAI) T-Shirt, 1989 (FA)
MsC-1 Iowa Education Media Association. Papers, 1921- 92 boxes and one item (42.09 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, 1952-1974 8 boxes (3.336 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.   24 boxes (30 linear feet)
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)
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, 1972 - 2001 18 boxes (22.5 linear feet)
MsC-49  Donald Dean Avenson.  Papers, ca. 1966-1990. 30 linear feet, 24 boxes
MsC-50 Clarence Baldwin, History of the Waterloo Public Library, ca. 1984-1985 0.209 lonear feet, 1 box
MsC-51 June Walter Bryan, “Memories of Clarke County, Iowa One-Room Rural Schools, 1924-1942” 0.209 linear feet, 1 box
MsC-52 American Federation of Musicians, Waterloo Local 334 and Oelwein Local 483 Papers, 1922-1993 6.25 linear feet, 10 boxes
MsC-53 William George Witt. Papers, 1993-2003. 21.25 linear feet, 17 boxes
MsC-54 Leon Mosley. Papers, 1983-2003.  13.34 linear feet,  22 boxes
Msc-55 Freisian Family Collection, ca. 1874-1940 0.209 linear feet, 1 box.
MsC-56 Elizabeth Baird Bennett-Harriet Brainard Correspondence, 1896-1897. 0.209linear feet, 1 box  
MsC-57 Roy White Interview, 1998 0.209 linear feet, 1 box
MsC-58 Citizens for Peace Collection 0.834 linear feet, 2 boxes
MsC-59 Richard Panek. Papers, 1983-1995 6.52 linear feet, 5 boxes
MsC-60 Irma Dovey. Papers, 1918-2003. 3.336 linear feet,  8 boxes
MsC-61 William Thomas Pettit. Papers, 1949-1995. 21.25 linear feet, 17 boxes
MsC-62   Cedar Arts Forum, Records, Publications, and Papers, 1959-1998.   39.834 linear feet plus 3 items, 32 boxes
MsC-63 Baby Care Pamphlets, 1951-1961 0.209 linear feet, 1 box
MsC-64 Adene Sadie Kerstetter Leupold. Papers, ca. 1930-1940 8.02 linear feet, 7 boxes
MsC-65 College Hill Arts Festival Records, ca. 1978-2014 22 boxes (21.813 linear feet)
MsC-66 Miller Family. Papers, 1882-1977 5.4 linear feet, 5 boxes
MsC-67 Practical Discourses on the Virtues and Duties of the Monastic State, by a monk of Melleray Abbey, 1826. 0.417 linear feet, 1 box
Msc-68 Jerré Tanner Collection, 1963-2010 39.961 linear feet, 28 boxes
MsC-69 Harvey J. Hess, III, Collection, 1946-2012 18.04 linear feet, 14 boxes
MsC-70 Iowa Girls High School Athletic Union, Track and Field Advisory Committee records, 1968-2004.  1.25 linear feet, 1 box.
MsC-71 Agnes Ann Hanus Luze Collection 1.04 linear feet, 3 boxes
MsC-72 Letter from John Ruskin, 1864 0.209 linear feet, 1 box, 1 folder
MsC-73 Letter regarding first surgical use of ether, 1899. 0.209 linear feet, 1 box, 1 folder
MsC-74 Letter from Clara Barton to Fitzroy Sessions, 1906 0.209 linear feet, 1 box, 1 folder
MsC-75 Cedar Valley Chamber Music Festival Collection, 2006-2011 0.209 linear feet, 1 box, 2 folders
MsC-76 Central Association for Physical Education in Higher Education. Records, 1971-1990 1.25 linear feet, 1 box, 15 folders
MsC-77 C. Hugh Pettersen papers, 1979-2005.   2.29 linear feet, 6 boxes
MsC-78 Iowa Mathematics and Science Coalition. Records, 1990-2011.  7.5 linear feet, 6 boxes
MsC-79 Certified to Teach: Ella Pullman's Teaching Certificates, 1876-1901 0.209 linear feet, 1 box
Msc-80 Hovey Brom Architectural Collection, ca. 1960s-1980s  0.834 linear feet, 2 boxes
MsC-81 Mary E. Francis Collection, 1864-ca. 1968 1.25 linear feet, 1 box
MsC-82 Robert W. Cox Railroad Collection, ca. 1906-1998 39.041 linear feet, 33 boxes
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 2.502 linear feet, 6 boxes
MsC-85 Mary T. O'Halloran. Papers, 1954-1978  17.5 linear feet, 14 boxes
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. 0.834 linear feet, 2 boxes
MsC-88 Gary Lettow Collection, 1865-2012 10.75 linear feet, 10 boxes
MsC-90 Iowa Bandmasters Association, 2008-2019 .21 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 2 boxes (0.83 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 Ambassador John Dinger Papers