Papers, 1901-1982, undated.

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Papers, 1901-1982, undated.

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This collection contains biographical information, laboratory notebooks, correspondence, published and unpublished works, and interview tapes and transcripts. Records documenting Isely's personal life include Isely's passport with several stamps from his trips to Panama and other countries in Latin and South America, correspondence to family members and friends, and biographical information which consists of news clippings, articles, dedications, nominations and photographs. The biographical information also includes a brief recollection of Dwight Isely's son, Duane Isely, on his father's professional work and contributions to entomology. Duane Isely conducted several interviews about his father with former students and coworkers (Charles Caviness, Charles Hall, Charles Lincoln, Floyd Miner, Paul Norland, Victor Watts). The collection contains both the transcriptions and original tapes. Isely's laboratory notebooks, from his time at the University of Kansas as a student, contain Isely's handwritten notes on lectures and drawings of insect dissections. Also included is correspondence in English and Spanish from Isely's personal and professional life. Correspondents include: George Becker, Benjamin J. Birdsall, Claude J. Byrd, Lippert S. Ellis, Robert F. Harwood, James G. Horsfall, Charles Lincoln, Floyd D. Miner, L.D. Newsom, George W. Ware, and V.H. Young.

6.93 linear feet (15 document boxes, 3 half-document boxes).

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Iowa State University, Parks Library

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Iowa State University, Parks Library

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University of Arkansas (Fayetteville campus). Dept. of Entomology.

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Miner, Floyd D. (Floyd Duane), 1915-

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Ware, George W. (George Whitaker), 1902-

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Isely, Duane, 1918-

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Duane Isely (1918-2000), a native of Arkansas, received his B.A. (1938) and M.S. (1939) from the University of Arkansas, and his Ph. D (1942) from Cornell University. He was named an Extension Associate (1944) when he began managing the Seed Laboratory at Iowa State College (University). He was also an Assistant Professor (1947-1948); Associate Professor (1949-1955) and a Professor (1956-1981)in the Botany Department. Isely was named a Distinguished Professor in 1981 and...

Newsom, L. D. (Leo Dale), 1915-

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Becker, George G. (George Grover), 1889-

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Young, V. H. (Vive Hall), 1887-

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Isely, Dwight, 1887-1974

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Entomologist Dwight Isely was born on a farm near Hiawatha in northern Kansas in 1887. He received his A.B. degree (1910) from Fairmount College (now Wichita State University) and received his Master's degree (1911-1913) at the University of Kansas. He did graduate work (1913-1914) at Cornell University, New York. Isely went to work (1914) with the USDA's Bureau of Entomology where he did research on fruit insects; he then became an Associate Professor of Entomology (1921) at the University of A...

Horsfall, James G. James Gordon), 1905-1995

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Arkansas Agricultural Experiment Station

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Byrd, Claude J.

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Institute of Inter-American Affairs (U.S.)

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Lincoln, Charles Gatewood, 1914-

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Harwood, Robert F. (Robert Frederick), 1927-

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Ellis, Lippert S. (Lippert Spring), 1899-1962

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University of Arkansas (Fayetteville campus). Agricultural Mission to Panama

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Birdsall, Benjamin J. (Benjamin Joseph), 1907-

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Benjamin Birdsall (1744-1828) was a Colonel in the Revolutionary War. From the description of Survey map of Lots No. 1-75, Township No. 3, of the Old Military Tract, Clinton County, New York. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122611554 In 1782 the New York Legislature granted a tract of land in central New York for bounty lands to reward the soldiers who fought in the Revolution. In 1786 the State forbade occupancy on the grants due to a conflict with Indian claims. Instead, "T...