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Medicine

This collection includes selected records of the American Society of Andrology. The records include materials related to annual meetings, the executive council, committee meetings and reports, and officers.

Military History

Interviews conducted by students as part of Professor Amy Rutenberg's class HIST 489: The World at War, The Vietnam War, Fall 2019.

Cultural StudiesPhotographyIowa History

Founded in 1858 as Iowa Agricultural College and Model Farm, Iowa State has been led by 16 presidents beginning with Adonijah Welch in 1868. Current president Wendy Wintersteen began her term in 2017. The collection includes inaugural addresses and programs, photographs of inauguration and installation ceremonies, and portraits of Iowa State presidents.

PhotographyNatural HistoryIowa History

Frederic Leopold (1895-1989), the brother of wildlife ecologist Aldo Leopold, was active in conservation efforts and wildlife ecology in Iowa. Concerned about the possible extinction of the wood duck, he designed houses for wood ducks and conducted extensive studies on their mating and nesting habits. This collection contains correspondence, photographs, wood duck studies, notes, and other materials documenting his ecological work.

Political SciencePhotographyIowa History

Dwight Ink was born in Des Moines, Iowa, in 1922 and received his B.S. in government and history from Iowa State University in 1947. Ink's career in federal government management began at the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission (1951-1969) and spanned seven consecutive presidential administrations. This collection includes correspondence, manuscripts, reports, photographs, and other materials documenting Ink's career and related professional activities.

Family HistoryHistorical Documents

These papers contain letters and journals written by Mary Newbury Adams (1837-1901), who was an instrumental early supporter of the suffrage movement.

Historical DocumentsPhotography

The digital collection contains biographical information, college papers, course notes, photographs, specimen drawings, correspondence, reports, articles, book reports, scientific correspondence and articles, and glass specimen slides. Items for the digital collection were selected as representative of Heywood's development as a scientific illustrator and her education in science, her relationships with other scientists (both men and women), her civic engagement, and her contributions to entomology.

PhotographyIowa History

The Iowa Ornithologists' Union (IOU), a nonprofit group organized in 1923, promotes the identification, study, and protection of birds in the state of Iowa. The collection materials, dating from the early 20th to the early 21st centuries, include field notes, correspondence, administrative records, clippings, photographs, and other documentation pertaining to birds and bird watching in Iowa.

LiteratureIowa History

Iowa State University Library Special Collections and University Archives preserves records that document the history of the university. It also collects materials created by members of the Cyclones community. This collection represents a selection of these materials, including books and reports about campus history and planning, as well as publications by university departments, notably the early-20th-century Home Economics Bulletin.

MusicCultural StudiesPolitical ScienceIowa History

The Iowa State Lectures Series, a collaborative effort between the Student Government and the Office of the Provost, brings to campus a broad spectrum of talks, political debates, academic forums, and cultural events. The online collection consists of more than 1,000 audio recordings dating back to the 1970s.

ArtIowa History

Oral histories conducted with Department of Mathematics faculty.

Family HistoryHistorical DocumentsIowa History

Sarah Tefft married Horace Underwood on November 30, 1851 in Kingston, Rhode Island. Within a few years, the couple would move to eastern Iowa, near the town of Princeton. The pair had a daughter, Mary Lilian in 1859. In the early 1860s, they returned to Rhode Island. This collection includes letters detailing Sarah's life in Iowa, asking after family and friends in Rhode Island, pressed flowers, a photograph, and a mourning shroud sample.

Military HistoryArt

Alexander Lippisch Digital Collection contains the technical designs and conceptual drawings for Lippisch's aeronautical designs including wingless aircraft, delta-wings, and aerodynes, as well as numerous photographic images of delta wings.

Iowa HistoryFootball

Johnny (Jack) Trice was born in Hiram, Ohio, in 1902. In 1922, Trice became the first African American student athlete at Iowa State, participating in track and football.

Photography

The digital collection contains images and documents related to John Vincent Atanasoff, Clifford Berry, the Atanasoff-Berry Computer (ABC), and the court case that established the ABC as the first electronic digital computer. These materials include photographs and drawings of the original ABC, two manuscripts written by Atanasoff regarding the computer's design and functionality, a manual for it written by Berry, and Berry's master's thesis about the computer. The collection also contains documents pertaining to the court case of Honeywell, Inc. v. Sperry-Rand, specifically the decision and Atanasoff's deposition.

Iowa HistoryOrnithology

The Fairfield (Iowa) Bird Club was active from 1933 through the mid-1950s. The club's monthly meetings consisted of informational presentations and discussions about birds. The collection contains reports, administrative records, correspondence, notes, programs, and other ephemera.

FashionIowa History

Sew Easy is a series of televised dressmaking demonstrations hosted by Lucille E. Rea, a specialist in clothing and textiles with the Iowa State College Extension Service. The demonstrations were originally recorded on 16mm film, likely broadcast by WOI-TV in the 1950s, and digitized in 2022.

Iowa History

The September 29th Movement was a student-led movement at Iowa State University from 1996 to 1998. The movement was dedicated to the elimination of racism, xenophobia, sexism, homophobia, and classism at Iowa State University, recognizing that changing the name of Catt Hall, a symbol of exclusion, must be the first step in that struggle. This collection contains a variety of documents that cover topics such as the life of Carrie Chapman Catt, the university's building naming practices, the women's suffrage movement, and the relationship between white women's suffrage and African-American civil rights.

Iowa History

Oral histories conducted by the U.S. Latino/a Studies Program Oral History Project, focused on Latinx in Iowa, and as part of a consortium with the Voces Project at the University of Texas at Austin exploring the stories of the Latina/o community affected by the coronavirus.

PhotographyArchitectureIowa History

Michael P. Harker is an Iowa-based photographer. In 1993 he began a series of photographs of barns and other outbuildings in Iowa. This project grew into a series of lectures, exhibits, and a book entitled Harker's Barns: Visions of an American Icon documenting Iowa's barns. This collection contains a selection of photographs taken for the book.

Chemistry

Oral history interviews conducted by Sue Futrell with individuals who worked at the Ames Laboratory (now Ames National Laboratory) in the latter half of the 20th century.

Iowa History

Publications documenting various historical aspects of Iowa including local histories, fauna, flora, and geology of Iowa.

Iowa HistoryAgriculture

This digital collection contains trade catalogs from Iowa seed companies, such as the Iowa Seed Company and Dorr's Iowa Seeds. Catalogs include seeds and bulbs for flowers, trees, herbs, ornamental shrubs, vegetables, grains, grasses, and fruit. The catalogs often also include gardening tools and implements.

TechnologyMilitary History

Photos, publications, course materials, and ephemera documenting the Curtiss-Wright Engineering Cadettes at ISU during World War II.

Historical DocumentsArtArchitectureIowa History

Descartes Pascal Digital Collection contains a selection of images from the glass plate negative collection documenting rural life in Iowa around the turn of the twentieth century, including homesteads, buildings, and the Pascal family.

Iowa HistoryEducation

Oral histories conducted with staff members who have served more than 40 years at Iowa State University.

ScienceCultural StudiesIowa History

Iowa State Extension Service carries its land-grant mission beyond campus, providing a research-based educational service to the people of Iowa. Early extension work included educational trains, short courses, farmers' institutes, demonstration farms, and other activities. The state has experienced significant agricultural progress since its establishment.

Iowa History

Oral history interviews with members of the Iowa State University community.

Statistics

Michel Chevalier (1806-1879) was a French statistician and economist. This collection includes letters, primarily authored by Chevalier, on topics including economics, politics, and discussion of the creation of a tunnel under the English Channel between France and England. Also included is a printed address by Chevalier on the topic of foreign cattle.

Uncategorized

Oral histories conducted as part of Honors Seminar 321J: Documenting the Past: An Introduction to Oral History.

ArtFashion

The collection (1776-2003) contains plates of general fashion dating back to the 18th century and continuing into the 21st century. Additional categories within the files include accessories, baby and beach fashions, bridal fashions and portraits, children's and Communion clothing, footwear, inaugural gowns, maid uniforms, masquerade costumes, men's fashion, millinery, negligees and undergarments, and mourning dresses. There are also magazine issues relating to fashion as well as magazine articles discussing fashion of the Ancient, Medieval, Renaissance, and Modern periods.

Iowa History

Ian Mackenzie Ringgenberg (1986- ) received his bachelor of science in anthropology from Iowa State University in 2008. He was a graduate of the Honors Program, for which he recorded oral history interviews documenting student life at Iowa State.

Iowa HistoryAgriculture

State atlases and other publications from the late 19th and early 20th centuries included illustrations of Iowa farms. This collection contains engravings and lithographs (some hand-colored) depicting farmsteads and stock farms in several Iowa counties circa 1871-1904.

AgricultureSocial ActivismCultural StudiesPhotographyMilitary HistoryIowa History

Throughout the twentieth century, farmers and farm laborers in Iowa and the Midwest advocated for fair prices and fair treatment through farmers' organizations, including the National Farmers Organization, Iowa Farmers Union, and Iowa Farm Bureau Federation. Many joined protest actions such as obstructing tuberculosis testing during the Iowa Cow War (1931), striking during the Farmers' Holiday movement (1932-1933), and dumping milk (1960s). The collection consists of administrative records, photographs, correspondence, brochures, and other materials pertaining to these pro-farm organizations and actions.

Iowa HistoryOrnithology

The Iowa Ornithological Association was organized in 1894 to ""promote more thorough study of the birds"" of the state of Iowa. The collection consists of one notebook titled Record Book of the Iowa Ornithologists' Association. The notebook contains minutes of the first through third annual congresses (1895-1897), a list of members, its constitution, news clippings, and correspondence.

Family HistoryBotanyNatural History

Established in 1968 as the Ames Audubon Society, the Big Bluestem Audubon Society adopted its current name in 1982, when it became an official chapter of the National Audubon Society. The society promotes the enjoyment and study of birds, other wildlife, and plants and engages in educational activities related to the conservation of the natural environment. The collection comprises newsletters, fliers and brochures, correspondence, and other records of the society.

StatisticsIowa History

The Statistical Laboratory at Iowa State was organized by George W. Snedecor in 1933. The laboratory provided consulting work and promoted statistical research, becoming one of the most prominent statistical labs in the country. This single-item collection contains a brief history of the Statistical Laboratory published in 1949.

ArchitectureIowa History

The Facilities Planning and Management Department is responsible for the maintenance of the campus grounds and buildings, the campus utilities system, and campus planning. This collection consists of color slides documenting a variety of the department's work areas, including landscaping, building maintenance, and construction.

Military HistoryIowa History

Woodward H. Brown (1917-1980) was an active member of the Iowa Ornithologists' Union and the Des Moines Audubon Society. He published several articles on birds, including ""An Annotated List of the Birds of Iowa."" This collection includes observational data collected by Brown, correspondence with other birders, and various editions of the Des Moines Audubon Society's Polk County Check-list, compiled by Brown.

Industrial TechnologyLiteratureTechnologyCultural StudiesIowa History

Lawrence H. Skromme had a long and productive career in the agricultural implement manufacturing industry. After earning a B.S. (1937) in agricultural engineering from Iowa State College (University), he worked at Goodyear Tire and Rubber Co. (1937-1941), designed plows and implements for Ford-Ferguson tractors (1941-1951), and served as chief engineer (1951-1961) and vice president of engineering (1961-1978) at Sperry-New Holland. His agricultural machinery literature collection comprises catalogs, advertisement cards, and other materials published by dozens of implement manufacturing companies in the last half of the 19th century and the early part of the 20th century.

OrnithologyNatural HistoryIowa History

Philip A. DuMont was an ornithologist and naturalist who spent much of his early life in Iowa. He published a monograph on Iowa birds and was hired by Jay N. ""Ding"" Darling to assess potential wildlife areas in Iowa. He worked in the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service from 1935 to 1972 and wrote hundreds of leaflets, bird and mammal lists, and brochures for the refuge system. This collection includes correspondence and other documents from DuMont's time in Iowa on topics including birds, avian specimen collections, and potential wildlife areas.

Family History

The American Statistical Association is a professional society interested in the theory, methodology, and application of statistics to all fields of human endeavor. Founded as a regional group in Boston in 1839, the ASA eventually became a large national organization and the publisher of several statistical journals. The collection comprises records, correspondence, and reports of the association, including its founding documents.

Historical DocumentsIowa History

A collection of speeches and writings of the first president of the Iowa State Agriculture College (Iowa State University) from 1869-1883.

LiteratureTechnologyCultural StudiesIowa History

Jay Brownlee Davidson was head of the agricultural engineering departments of University of California (1915-1919) and Iowa State College (1905-1915, 1919-1946). He is recognized as a pioneer in the development of agricultural engineering as a discipline. The collection consists of scrapbooks and other materials documenting his travels in China, the Soviet Union, and Europe.

EducationChemistryIowa History

Oral history interviews of faculty from the Iowa State University Department of Chemistry. Current and retired faculty members were interviewed by two individuals: Michael Qiu, a senior in chemistry enrolled in the Honors Program, and Patricia Thiel, Distinguished Professor of Chemistry. Qiu conducted his interviews as a component of his senior honors project. The Chemistry Department faculty members that were interviewed discuss a variety of topics associated with their careers. They tell about the path that led them to Iowa State, the changes in teaching technology during their career, and the research they were associated with.

Iowa History

Open to the entire Iowa State University community, the COVID-19 Stories oral history project sought to record how faculty, students, staff, alumni, and others were responding to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Military HistoryIowa History

The history of Pammel Court is a story of community and place. Originally founded after World War II to provide temporary housing for returning veterans and their families, Pammel Court's collection of surplus metal units and narrow streets became a significant part of the Iowa State landscape for over fifty years.

Iowa History

The histories of Iowa's 99 counties contribute to the broader understanding of local, state, and national history. This collection includes digitized versions of published county histories from the 19th century as well as histories compiled in the 1940s by the Iowa Writers' Program of the Work Projects Administration (formerly the Works Progress Administration).

GeographyPhotographyIowa History

In the early 20th century, Iowa State University botanist Louis Hermann Pammel (1862-1931), ISU botanist Ada Hayden (1884-1950), and the university's Landscape Architecture Extension Program played key roles in advocating for and developing Iowa's state parks. This collection includes correspondence, photographs, maps, and other materials pertaining to the people and programs active in the state park movement.

Iowa History

Students have been living, working, and learning on the campus of Iowa State University for over 150 years. This collection includes a variety of objects from 1858 to the 2000s that explore student life at ISU from its founding to the present.

ArchitectureIowa History

Philip Elwood was a landscape architect who taught at Iowa State College from 1923 to 1951. He helped organize the Department of Landscape Architecture and served as the head of the department from 1929 to 1950. In 1958, he was named Professor Emeritus. This collection includes film of student tours led by Elwood between 1927 and 1931 through various parts of the United States, Egypt, Palestine, Hong Kong, China, and Japan.

OrnithologyFamily HistoryPathology

The American Association of Avian Pathologists is a nonprofit organization founded in 1958 to promote avian medicine, stimulate scientific progress in avian pathology, and encourage training and continuing education in diseases of poultry, wild birds, and pet birds. The collection includes reports, newsletters, programs, periodicals, correspondence, and other records of the association.

Historical DocumentsIowa HistoryHome Economics

Mary B. Welch was the organizer and head of the Department of Domestic Economy at Iowa State from 1875 to 1883. She was married to Iowa State College's first president, Adonijah Welch. This collection includes writings and lectures by Welch on various topics, including home economics, rhetoric, etiquette, Italy, and the early history of the Department of Domestic Economy. The collection also includes correspondence by Welch and biographical information.

Social ActivismIowa History

From its founding, Iowa State allowed women to enroll. However, for much of the university's history, women endured more restrictive policies than their more numerous male counterparts and faced other forms of bias. This collection documents some of the experiences of women at Iowa State between 1960 and 1979, including campus policies and culture, activism, and a discrimination lawsuit filed against the university by the National Organization of Women.

CookbooksHome Economics

Kitchen-Klatter began as a talk show in 1924. It continued as both a talk show and magazine in 1940 and covered home stories, recipes, household tips, child-rearing advice, and comments on current events.

Cultural StudiesIowa History

Carrie Lane Chapman Catt (1859-1947) was a suffragist, early feminist, political activist, and Iowa Agricultural College (Iowa State University) alumna (1880). She was president (1900-1904 and 1915-1920) of the National American Woman Suffrage Association. She also formed and was president (1904-1923) of the International Woman Suffrage Alliance. In 1920, she helped found the League of Women Voters.

Cultural StudiesGeographyIowa History

The first building of the Iowa Agricultural College and Model Farm was completed in 1861. Renamed Iowa State College of Agricultural and Mechanic Arts in 1898 and Iowa State University of Science and Technology in 1959, the institution now covers more than 1,800 acres. This collection comprises maps of the campus and surrounding areas in the 19th and 20th centuries.

Iowa HistoryTelevision

WOI-TV went on the air in February 1950 and for several years was the first station in central Iowa to offer a regular schedule of programming. It was the first television station owned and operated by an institution of higher learning and was noteworthy for its early experiments in Kinescope recording techniques. WOI-TV was sold to Capital Communications Company, Inc. in 1994. The collection includes clips of WOI-TV news broadcasts from the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s.

TechnologyMilitary HistoryIowa History

Collection of oral histories sponsored by the Archives of Women in Science and Engineering (Iowa State University Library) and focused on women who have devoted their careers to the study of chemistry in the post-World War II era.

Historical DocumentsPhotographyMilitary HistoryIowa History

Edward M. Mezvinsky served in the Iowa House of Representatives (1969-1971), in the U.S. House of Representatives for Iowa's first district (1973-1977), and as U.S. representative to the United Nations Commission on Human Rights (1977-1979). This collection consists of photographs, speeches, correspondence, reports, videos, and other records of his political career, including his experience on the House Judiciary Committee, which recommended the impeachment of President Richard M. Nixon.

Iowa History

Ada Hayden was the first woman to earn a Doctor of Philosophy at Iowa State. She also became curator of the Herbarium and added over 18,000 specimens to the collection.

LiteratureCultural StudiesCookbooksIowa History

Cookbooks published by Iowan communities, organizations, and individuals document the culinary heritage of Iowa and the United States. They contain not only recipes but also valuable cultural and historical information. These digitized versions of 19th- and 20th-century cookbooks represent a selection of rare books held by ISU Library's Special Collections department in its Iowa Cookbook Collection.

MedicinePhotographyIowa History

This collection consists of an oral history interview with William P. Switzer, professor in the Iowa State University College of Veterinary Medicine, and photographs related to the College of Veterinary Medicine.

Family HistoryPhotographyIowa History

The educator, scholar, inventor, and artist was Iowa State University's first African American student and faculty member; collection includes photographs, letters, artifacts, and Carver's master's thesis.

Cultural StudiesIowa History

The Iowa State Center was built as an educational, cultural, and athletic complex. This collection was created for the 50th anniversary of C. Y. Stephens Auditorium and contains images and documentation of both Stephens Auditorium and the Iowa State Center.

Iowa History

After the Stonewall riots in New York City in 1969, gay rights activists became increasingly vocal across the United States. At Iowa State, students who identified as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, or queer joined the fight for equal rights, making their voices heard on campus.

Iowa History

Charles Christopher Parry, botanist and physician, lived in Davenport, Iowa. In 1849 he was appointed botanist to the United States-Mexican boundary survey and worked in this capacity for three years. For the rest of his life, Parry spent his summers in botanical expeditions in the western United States.

Iowa History

This collection includes a film on bookbinding originally presented in 1968 as part of Iowa State's VEISHEA celebration and footage of Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev's visit to Iowa and Iowa State University.

PhotographyArchitectureIowa History

The University Photographs Collection is a sampling of historical photographs documenting the various events, buildings, and people of the University, chosen from the Iowa State University Library Special Collections and University Archives.

CommencementPhotographyIowa History

The commencement records of Iowa State University contain commencement programs, addresses, correspondence, invitations, newspaper clippings, photographs, and programs documenting the commencement ceremony at Iowa State University, beginning in 1872 and continuing to the present day.

Photography

Papers, sketches, artifacts, and photographs relating to Christian Petersen (1885-1961), the first sculptor-in-residence at a U.S. university.

TechnologyMilitary HistoryIowa History

Mary Jean Logan Sweet participated in the Curtiss-Wright Engineering Cadette Program at Iowa State College (University) in 1943. Sponsored by the Curtiss-Wright Corporation, this nationwide program was designed to ease wartime labor shortages by training women to work as engineers. This collection includes oral histories with Sweet and another participant in the program, Betty Ellen Claybourn Goettsch.

StatisticsIowa History

The Statistical Laboratory at Iowa State was organized by George W. Snedecor in 1933. The laboratory provided consulting work and promoted statistical research, becoming one of the most prominent statistical labs in the country. This collection contains selected annual reports from the Statistical Laboratory from 1944 to 2006 documenting the laboratory's activities.

PhotographyIowa HistoryOrnithology

Walter M. Rosene Sr. was born in Ogden, Iowa, in 1880. An avid birder, he helped found the Iowa Ornithologists' Union and served as its first president from 1923 to 1926. This collection includes lantern slides (many of them hand-colored), photographs, field notes, checklists, and other documents related to Rosene's ornithological work.

AgricultureIowa History

Oral history project done in conjunction with the Iowa Women's Archives at the University of Iowa documenting women involved in agriculture and farming, with the exception of Fred Kirschenmann.

Uncategorized

Voices in Color Oral History Project, 2018-2020

Statistics

Selected items from the George W. Snedecor Papers.

Iowa History

Oral history interview with Gerald A. Miller, Extension agronomist and professor of agronomy at Iowa State University.

Military HistoryIowa History

More than 76,000 Iowans fought in the Civil War. This collection includes written accounts by a few of those soldiers that document life in camp, campaigns, exploits including a prison escape, and their thoughts on the war.

CommencementPhotographyIowa History

This collection contains photographs documenting the Commencement ceremony at Iowa State University. Additional photographs of Commencement can be found in the University Archives Photograph Collection. A complete set of Commencement programs (LD2547 I68x) has been cataloged and is also available at the University Archives. A selection of these Commencement programs has been digitized and may be found in our Digital Collections.

AgricultureIowa History

The National Farmers Organization (NFO) was founded in 1955 to combat low prices farmers received from food processors. Originally headquartered in Corning, Iowa, the NFO now has headquarters in Ames, Iowa. The collection includes films on various farming topics with an emphasis on political and economic issues.

Cultural StudiesIowa HistoryFootball

Iowa Agricultural College (now Iowa State University) joined its first intercollegiate athletic conference in 1894 and currently plays in the Big 12 Conference. This collection contains programs sold during Iowa State football games from the 1890s to the 2010s.

ScienceIowa History

Oral history interviews conducted by Dorothy Schwieder concerning the history of the Iowa State Extension Service and by Dorothy Schwieder, Joseph Hraba, and Elmer Schwieder as part of research for the book Buxton: a Black utopia in the heartland (Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 2003).

Iowa History

Statistics was first taught at Iowa State by George W. Snedecor in 1914. In 1927 the college established the Mathematical Statistics Service, which became the Statistical Laboratory in 1933. The Department of Statistics was organized in 1947. This single-item collection includes a brief history of the Department of Statistics and the Statistical Laboratory from 1914 to 1950.

Iowa History

Iowa State University Bomb Yearbook Records

PhotographyIowa History

This digital collection contains photographs of Works Progress Administration, later Work Projects Administration (WPA), projects done in Iowa. Material relating to the Iowa WPA, including brochures, statistical graphs, and flyers are also included.

Iowa History

Oral histories conducted as part of Iowa State University's 150th anniversary.

Military HistoryIowa History

Oral history interviews conducted by the Iowa State University Library Special Collections Department with key individuals involved with protests against the Vietnam War on the Iowa State University campus. Interviewees included students, administrators, and citizens of Ames, Iowa.

Cultural StudiesPhotographyIowa History

This digital collection consists of materials related to multicultural student organizations at Iowa State University. Objects include administrative records, correspondence, promotional materials, photographs, and other records created by or about the organizations in the 20th and 21st centuries.

Military History

Warren H. Manning was a landscape architect in Massachusetts in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He received his training at the firm of the foremost landscape architect of the era, Frederick Law Olmsted of Brookline, Massachusetts. Manning was a founder of the American Society of Landscape Architects and played a pivotal role in the development of American landscape architecture.

ScienceNatural HistoryIowa History

Paul Errington was a professor of zoology at Iowa State from 1932 to 1962. He established and led the first Cooperative Wildlife Research Unit in the United States. His professional area of expertise included vertebrate ecology and population dynamics. This collection includes correspondence between Errington and various colleagues, primarily Aldo Leopold, discussing research, publications, employment, and other topics.