Iowa Plant Life Commission records, 1917-1920.

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Iowa Plant Life Commission records, 1917-1920.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/61820889

This collection includes meeting minutes; correspondence between Commission members and architects Francis Asbury Robinson, F.A. Abrahamson, Lawrence E. Foglesong, etc.; specifications; plant lists; and blueprints for plantings prepared by Foglesong.

.5 linear ft. (1 container, 1 oversize folio)

State Historical Society of Iowa, Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 7808059

State Historical Society of Iowa, Library

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Pammel, L. H. 1862-1931.

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Greene, Wesley

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Foglesong, Lawrence E.

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Harlan, Edgar Rubey, 1869-1941

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Lawyer, author and curator of the Iowa State Historical Department from 1908-1937. Harlan earned a law degree from Drake University (Des Moines) and was admitted to the bar in 1896. Prior to his appointment to the position of Historical Department curator he served as Van Buren County Attorney (1898-1902) and practiced with a firm in Keosauqua, Iowa (1902-1907). From the description of Edgar Rubey Harlan papers, 1887-1937. (State Historical Society of Iowa, Library). WorldCat record ...

Abrahamson, F. A.

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Macbride, Thomas H. (Thomas Huston), 1848-1934

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Botanist and educator. From the description of Papers, 1845-1954. (University of Iowa Libraries). WorldCat record id: 28411999 Botanist, educator, and president of the University of Iowa. From the description of Papers of Thomas H. Macbride, 1845-1954. (University of Iowa Libraries). WorldCat record id: 233108192 ...

Iowa Plant Life Commission.

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The Iowa Plant Life Commission was an advisory group formed to advise the Iowa Executive Council regarding native plant selections for a state capitol grounds extension project. Members of the group were Edgard R. Harlan (Iowa State Historical Dept.), L.H. Pammel (Iowa State University), Thomas Macbride (State University of Iowa), and Wesley Greene (Iowa Horticultural Society). Lawrence E. Foglesong was the associate landscape architect for the project. From the description of Iowa P...

Robinson, Francis, 1910-1980

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Public relations staff, Metropolitan Opera. From the description of Interview conducted by Oliver Daniel, Sept. 7, 1978 [sound recording]. (University of Pennsylvania Library). WorldCat record id: 155862075 ...