United States Food Administration Iowa Division papers, 1917-1920.

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United States Food Administration Iowa Division papers, 1917-1920.

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Papers collected by Mrs. Max Mayer, USFA Iowa field representative and Ivan L. Pollock, research associate at the State Historical Society of Iowa. Includes correspondence from the Iowa Division administrator, J.F. Deems of Burlington; and secretary of the Iowa division, R.E. Logsdon. Contains many form letters sent to USFA county chairs, businesses, housewives, and schools; as well as correspondence to the Iowa division by officials and private citizens. Also includes programs, notes, printed material and Pollock's notes for his two volume book "The Food Administration in Iowa" published by the State Historical Society of Iowa.

2.5 linear ft. (5 archives boxes)

Iowa State Historical Society

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United States Food Administration

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American food regulatory agency. From the description of Food Administration records, 1917-1919. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 754866949 Organized in 1917; managed civilian food production, distribution, conservation and pricing during World War I; using both volunteers and a paid staff, accomplished its work in New Jersey through an enforcement division, through committees representing different food trades, through county-level food administrators and through publicity ef...

Lodgsdon, E. G.

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Deems, J. F., 1855-1931

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United States Food Administration. Iowa Division.

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The United States Food Administration Iowa Division was established in July 1917 with the appointment of J.F. Deems as state administrator by Hebert Hoover, the head of the USFA. The Iowa division was headquartered in Burlington, in rooms donated by the Iowa State Savings Bank of Burlington. After American entry into the World War, the USFA was created to administer the distribution and consumption of food; and control the import, export, purchase, storage and all matters associated with the foo...

Pollock, Ivan Lester, 1887-

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Mayer, Max, Mrs.

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