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Holden, P. G. (Perry Greeley), 1865-1959. Papers, 1892-1967.

Title: Papers, 1892-1967.

This collection contains correspondence, letters, publications, unpublished materials, newspaper clippings, addresses, and scrapbooks. The correspondence (1907-1958) deals mainly with this career at Iowa State; staffing needs, costs of extension, and plans for teaching. The writings and clippings address his interests of hybrid corn, extension, demonstration farms, "corn gospel trains," and crop diversification. The family scrapbooks contain family history, photographs, reminiscences, poetry, certificates, letters and articles.

ArchivalResource: 1.26 linear ft. (3 document boxes)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/39200761 View

Bliss, Ralph Kenneth, b. 1880. Radio talk manuscript, 1962.

Title: Radio talk manuscript, 1962.

Manuscript for a radio talk about Professor Perry Holden (first director of the ISU Extension Service) and his early Iowa corn yield tests. The program was aired on September 7, 1962.

ArchivalResource: 1 folder

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/124077468 View

Bliss, Ralph Kenneth, 1880-. Papers, 1904-1971.

Title: Papers, 1904-1971.

The Ralph K. Bliss Papers include correspondence, reports, memoranda, minutes, teaching notes, lectures, biographical information, photographs, publications, bound volumes, addresses, and radio talks (1948-1971). The bulk of the collection consists of Bliss' correspondence and transcripts of his radio addresses. The subject matter relates to agricultural and home economics extension work in Iowa, food production during World Wars I and II, war emergency work of county agents, Soil Conservation Society of America, 50th Anniversary of Extension (1963), National Council for Community Improvement, Agricultural Advisory Committee for Iowa to the U.S. Savings Bond Division, American Country Life Association, Iowa Farm Bureau, Agricultural Hall of Fame, Epsilon Sigma Phi, and Iowa State University Class of 1905. The Extension material includes reports and correspondence with Perry G. Holden (1908-1912). There are also annual reports detailing extension work in crops, horticulture, animal husbandry, dairy, nutrition, and clothing (1919-1923). The reports include photographs documenting extension work across Iowa in that period. Includes typescript copy of Bliss' The Spirit and Philosophy of Extension Work (1952), copy (1905) of his thesis, articles by colleagues, campus tours, and reports dealing with the Land Grant Committee on Extension Work.

ArchivalResource: 16.8 linear ft. (32 document boxes)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/33943417 View

Holden, P. G. (Perry Greeley), 1865-1959. Perry Greeley Holden scrapbook, 1944.

Title: Perry Greeley Holden scrapbook, 1944.

Material on his career in agricultural extension; and biographical sketches of his wife and children, and family genealogy.

ArchivalResource: 1 v.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/34420602 View

OAC Review Index (University of Guelph). I Dare You! (Danforth Fellowship) / John Eccles, OAC Review, v.52, no.1, Oct. 1939, p. 12-14.

Title: I Dare You! (Danforth Fellowship) / John Eccles, OAC Review, v.52, no.1, Oct. 1939, p. 12-14. 1939.

ArchivalResource: 3 p.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/629775518 View

Mosher, Martin Luther, 1882-. Papers, 1899-1979.

Title: Papers, 1899-1979.

The Martin L. Mosher Papers consist of manuscripts, clippings, correspondence, diaries, transcripts of radio discussions, scrapbooks, photographs, photographic negatives, and slides. Materials relating to extension work document seed corn, especially the open-pollinated varieties, Krug Corn and Reid's Yellow Dent, and Pfister Hybrid Seeds. Mosher's senior and graduate papers related to corn are present, including one bottle of corn from Woodford County, Illinois tests (1919-1921). The negative and photograph collection contains images of his work in Clinton County, Iowa (1912-1915); Vera Cruz, Mexico (1908-1909); Illinois (1916-1950); and of farmsteads of the 1950s across the United States. Numerous family photographs are included. Mosher's personal diaries and account books (1899-1977, not inclusive) include his work on the Corn Train. There is one diary of Elva Forman Mosher as well. Material related to the Woodford County, Illinois corn tests include data, photographs, and analyses of the tests. The scrapbooks include personal and genealogical material. One scrapbook is from Perry Holden to Mosher, documenting Holden's career as a leader in midwestern extension service. The collection also contains unpublished material from Lemuel Mosher, father of Martin L. Mosher, related to natural history near West Liberty, Iowa (1900-1915).

ArchivalResource: 14.28 linear ft. (33 document boxes)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/33877713 View