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Note: This collection was donated to the University of Iowa
Libraries in 1975 by Ralph Smith
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Related Materials
Iowa State Grange.
Roster / Iowa State Grange, Patrons of Husbandry. [Iowa] : The Grange.
SPEC XCOL HD1485.I66 I68
Iowa State Grange.
Journal of Proceedings. [s. l.]
SPEC XCOL HD1485.I66 I6
National Grange.
Declaration of Purposes ; Constitution and By-Laws of the National Grange
; By-laws of the Iowa State Grange and Blank Forms of By-Laws for Subordinate
Granges / Patrons of Husbandry. Malvern, Iowa : Malvern Leader [19--?]
SPEC XCOL HD1485.P3 A3 1900
Woods, Thomas A.
Knights of the Plow : Oliver H. Kelley and the Origins of the Grange in Republican
Ideology. Ames : Iowa State University Press, 1991.
MAIN LIB HD1485.P5 W66 1991
Schwieder, Dorothy,
1933- comp. Patterns and Perspectives in Iowa History. Ames : Iowa State
University Press, 1973.
MAIN LIB F621.5 .S38
Smith, Ralph William,
1888-. Newton No. 1, The Second Working Grange in the United States and the
First in Iowa, and the Early Grange Movement in Some Iowa Counties [Newton,
Iowa, 1967]
SPEC IOWA AUTHORS
Oostendorp, John
Anthony. The Cooperative Movement in the Patrons of Husbandry, in Iowa.
1870 -- 1878. 1949.
MAIN THESIS T1949 .O59
Throne, Mildred. The Grange in Iowa, 1868 -- 1875. Iowa City, Iowa : State Historical Society, [1949?] SPEC IOWA AUTHOR
Smith, Ralph W. (Ralph
William), 1888-. The History of the Iowa State Grange, Patrons of Husbandry,
from 1868 to 1946 . [Manchester, Iowa State Grange, 1946]
SPEC IOWA AUTHORS
Buehler, Lillian
Marie. Agrarian Discontent in Iowa, 1866 -- 1876. 1935.
MAIN THESIS T1935 .B92
White Pigeon Grange
No. 2040, Cedar County, Iowa. Minutes, 1908 -- 1913. [Microform]
Main Media Collection Micro film 29842
National Grange.
Constitutions of the Patrons of Husbandry: Issued by the National Grange,
and the Iowa State Grange. Des Moines, Iowa : Carter, Hussey & Curl,
steam printers, 1873.
SPEC XCOL HD1485.P3 A3
National Grange.
Constitutions of the Patrons of Husbandry, Issued by the National Grange,
and the Iowa State Grange. Des Moines : State Journal Steam Print, 1873.
SPEC XCOL HD1485.P3 A3 1873a
White Pigeon Grange
No. 58, Cedar County, Iowa. Secretary's Book, 1871 -- 1877. [Microform]
1871 -- 1877.
Main Media Collection Micro film 29842
McCaull, Robert. Papers. In Iowa Documents, MsC 897.
Applications for Membership in the Beneficiary Department of the Iowa State Grange, 1878.
Clear Creek Grange (Jasper County, Iowa) records, 1872 -- 79.
Confidential circular, 1873.
Constitution of the Patrons of Husbandry. Issued by the National Grange and the Iowa State Grange. Also By-laws. (Des Moines: Carter, Hussey, and Curl, 1873.)
Executive Committee's Circular, Iowa State Grange, March 20, 1875.
Fourteenth Annual Session of the Iowa State Grange, P.of H., Des Moines, Iowa, December 11, 1883.
Grange Field Meet at Wilton, Iowa, June 12, 1908. (Program.)
Grange Crop Report, 1874.
Grange emblem, old implements. (Small wooden box.)
The Grange News. Vol. XV:no. 47. Old Harmony, Illinois. Saturday, November 21, 1891.
Grange organization dates in Iowa.
History of Hickory Grove Grange (Jasper County, Iowa), 1934.
Hong Kong Tea Company's Wholesale and Retail Price Current. October, 1878.
Independence Grange #461 (Jasper County, Iowa). Synopsis of minutes from secretary's book, 1872 -- 75.
Iowa Grange News
1993; July, October
1994; January, April, July, October
1995; January, July
1997; April, July, October
1998; January, June, August, October, December
1999; April, August
2000; January, April, October
2001; May, August
2002; May
2003; February, May, August, November
2004; March, August
2005; February, June, November
2006; April, August
2007: June
Jasper Cooperative Association (grange store), Newton, Iowa, 1876 -- 1889.
C. Jevine, Wholesale Grocer (Chicago), receipts, 1876.
Kendallville Grange #45 (Winnesheik Country, Iowa). Miscellaneous records and correspondence. Correspondents include D.W. Adams, Wm. Duane Wilson, and Oliver Hudson Kelly, 1871 -- 1893.
Kendallville Grange secretary's book, 1871 -- 1881. Photocopy of typescript transcription. (Gift of Don and Ilene Moore.) (Transcribed by David and Jean Holmes.)
Kendallvile Grange secretary's book, 1876 -- 1900. Financial records from 1877; secretary's minutes start in 1881.
Kendallvile Grange treasurer's book, 1875 -- 1889.
Kendallvile Grange. Photograph of the Grange Hall.
CD-ROM containing images of Kendallvile, including a photograph showing the Grange Hall. This CD-ROM also contains a copy of the Kendallvile Grange secretary's book, 1871 -- 1881. (Gift of Don and Ilene Moore.)
Box 2
Letter to Ralph W. Smith containing biographical information on Col. A. B. Smedley, 1941.
Miscellaneous Grange items, 1872 -- 1892.
Miscellaneous pamphlets and booklets.
Montgomery Ward and Company: the "Original Grange Supply House." Statements, receipts, invoices, etc., 1875 -- 77.
The National Grange Master's Letters no. 15 and 16 (May 1 and 3, 1943).
National Grange Patrons of Husbandry. Declaration of Purposes.
National Grange Annual Session. 1936. Address of Louis J. Taber, Master
Newspaper clippings, 1975 -- 1996.
North Eastern Iowa Council. Patrons of Husbandry. Constitution.
North Kellogg Grange, #1391 (Kellogg, Iowa). Secretary's book, 1873 -- 1876.
Osage Farmers Grange secretary's book, 1872 -- 1875.
Patrons of Husbandry, Newton, Iowa, 1872.
Patrons of Husbandry Certificates
Program Books
1997 -- 1998
1998 -- 1999
1999 -- 2000
2002 -- 2003
Regalia and sashes.
Revolution of 1873. Farmer's Declaration of Independence.
State Agency of Iowa State Grange, 1879.
Sugar Grove Grange (Jasper County, Iowa) secretary's book, 1872 -- 1875. Copy.
Sugar Grove Grange. #668. Secretary's book, 1876 -- 1882. Copy.
Thornton Barnes, Wholesale Grocer. Philadelphia, 1884.
Three pamphlets:
"Uncle Henry Wallace Favors the Grange," 1909
"Iowa Needs the Grange." by B. H. Hibbard, Iowa State College
"Granges for Iowa." by P. G. Holdern, Ames, Iowa.
Union Grange. #921, Otterville, Iowa (Buchanan County). Minute book, 1879 -- 1901.
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