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Records of the Iowa Lakeside Laboratory
RG 20.04
Collection Dates: 1909-1990
9.5 linear ft.

Access and Restrictions: This collection is open for research.

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Acquisition and Processing Information: These materials were transferred to the University Archives from the Dept. of Biological Sciences at various times. Guide posted to the Internet January 2007.

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Related Materials

Frederick W. Kent Collection of Photographs (RG 30.01.01), Series I (Prints), Sub-series Colleges and Departments and Sub-series Scenes.

Baker, Debby Zieglowsky. "Eighty Years of Research at Iowa Lakeside Laboratory: A Bibliography." Journal of the Iowa Academy of Science 97 (December 1990): 190-199.

Bovbjerg, Richard V., Martin J. Ulmer, and John C. Downey. The Iowa Lakeside Laboratory: Its Past, Present, and Potentials for the Future. N.p., 1974. 69, 139 pp.

Nuss, Elizabeth Frances. "History of the State University of Iowa: The Iowa Lakeside Laboratory." M.A. thesis, University of Iowa, 1946. 161 pp.

Zieglowsky, Debby J. "Thomas Macbride's Dream: Iowa Lakeside Laboratory." Palimpsest 66 (March-April 1985): 42-56, 61-65, illus.



Box Contents List

Box 1

Correspondence files, including brochures and photos in “bulletins and publicity” folder, 1940s-60s

Box 2

----. Includes bulletins scattered throughout chronologically-arranged files, 1960s-80s

Box 3

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Box 4

----. Includes one folder containing alumni lists up to about 1990

Box 5

Includes 1950s newsletters, 1991-92 letters of support in response to Legislature’s threat to close the lab (closure did not happen)

Box 6

Correspondence files

Box 7

Articles, bulletins and brochures promoting the lab, 1909 (first announcement) to 1990

Box 8

Additional 1991-92 support letters

Box 9

“Okoboji Dredgings” newsletter, 1989-92

Box 10

Includes 1910 articles of incorporation (first folder), early director’s reports (1920’s), correspondence including Bohumil Shimek

Box 11

Includes minutes and committee reports, 1920’s