North entrance of the Main Library, the University of Iowa, 1950s. (Iowa Digital Library: http://digital.lib.uiowa.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ictcs/id/17680)
The Des Moines Register cartoonist “Ding” Darling was commissioned to draw the panels over the library’s entrance. The nine panels “trace the development from cave men to the in-one-ear-out-the-other student of today.” (Look, June 16, 1953)
History of Education (series of nine cartoons). (Iowa Digital Library)
The cartoons panels are now on display on the fourth floor of the Main Library.