Iowa Panama-Pacific Exposition Commission records, 1914-1917.

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Iowa Panama-Pacific Exposition Commission records, 1914-1917.

Volumes documenting exhibitions in the Iowa Building of the Panama-Pacific Exposition, focusing particularly on collections loaned by the Iowa State Historical Department (Edgar R. Harlan, director). Included is correspondence between the Iowa Commission, Harlan and other parties involved in the transfer and exhibition of materials; specifications for exhibit cases, props, and furniture; inventories of materials loaned by the Historical Department; and miscellaneous legal, financial and insurance documentation.

.5 linear ft. (3 volumes in 1 container)

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Panama-Pacific International Exposition (1915 : San Francisco, Calif.)

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Iowa. State Historical Dept.

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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 ...