The Palimpsest: Volume 67. Number 3: May/June 1986 by Fredericksen, Mary K. (editor) - 1986

Iowa City: The State Historical Society of Iowa, 1984. Staple-bound Softcover. Very Good+. Pages crisp and bright, with numerous illustrations; cover has lines of gentle surface wear at the left front and right rear, a small area of specking at the lower right rear, a little gentle rubbing at the corners, otherwise excellent. 32pp., staplebound. Lead article: 'Iowa in the 1880s' by Burton J. Williams.

Iowa City: The State Historical Society of Iowa, 1985. Staple-bound Softcover. Very Good. Clean and bright; soft cover has a little shelf rubbing at the corners and spine ends and light surface rubbing at left front and right rear, otherwise excellent. 34pp., staplebound. Lead article: 'Thomas Macbride's Dream: Iowa Lakeside Laboratory' by Debby J. Zieglowsky.

Iowa City: The State Historical Society of Iowa, 1984. Staple-bound Softcover. Very Good. Pages crisp and bright, with numerous illustrations; cover shows lines of gentle smudging at left front and right rear as well as a little wear at the spine tips, otherwise clean and attractive. 32pp. Articles include: 'The Death of an American College: A Retrospective Look' by Dean Gabbert; "Harvest Time" by Lenore Salvaneschi; "An Early Industry in Mills County: Ballast Burning" by Allen Wortman; etc. This is one of the most striking covers in Palimpsest history, with an image of two people installing a sign for Parsons College on the front, and the bankruptcy notice on the front door of the school nearly a hundred years later, in 1973. ISSN 0031-0360.

Iowa City, IA: The State Historical Society of Iowa, 1986. Staple-bound Softcover. Fair. No owners' marks; stapled binding secure. A damp-stain on the back cover has caused some rippling throught, and there is a short corner fold on the first page, otherwise sound. 38pp., illustrated in black-and-white. ISSN 0031-0360 Lead article: "Stability and Change: Luther College After One Hundred Twenty-Five Years" by Leigh D. Jordahl.

Iowa City: The State Historical Society of Iowa, 1985. Staple-bound Softcover. Very Good+. Pages crisp and bright, with numerous illustrations; cover shows very gentle rubbing at the corners, otherwise excellent. 32pp., staplebound. Lead article: 'Tell the Boys I Die Happy' by Richard W. Peterson.

Iowa City: The State Historical Society of Iowa, 1985. Staple-bound Softcover. Very Good. Pages crisp and bright, with no owners' marks; stapled binding secure. Cover shows only some rubbing along the spine and around the corners, otherwise excellent. 32pp. ISSN 0031-0360 Lead article: '"Alexander the Great," Bridge Builder' by Chalres E. Wynes.

Iowa City: The State Historical Society of Iowa, 1983. Staple-bound Softcover. Very Good. Pages crisp and bright, with numerous illustrations; cover shows slight rubbing at the right rear, very minor corner wear, otherwise excellent. 32pp., staplebound. Lead article: 'A Place in the Sun: Iowa Politics at the Turn of the Century' by Loren N. Horton.

Iowa City: The State Historical Society of Iowa, 1983. Staple-bound Softcover. Very Good. Pages crisp and clean, with no owners' marks; stapled binding secure. Cover has some surface rubbing at left and right edges of front and rear and a small gray spot at the upper right rear, but is otherwise clean and attractive. 32pp., black-and-white illustrations. ISSN 0031-0360 Lead article: 'Henry, Himself' by Bob Birkby and Janice Nahra Friedel.

Iowa City: The State Historical Society of Iowa, 1983. Staple-bound Softcover. Very Good. Clean except for pale, blue-ish smudging along the sides of the spine; cover and pages shows a small bend through the bottom right corners; otherwise well-kept. 32pp., b/w illus. ISSN 0031-0360 Articles include "Patton and Miller: Designers of Carnegie Libraries" by Paul Kruty, "John C. Mabray: A Con Artist in the Corn Belt" by Raymond A. Smith, Jr.; and "John M. Work: Iowa Socialist" by William H. Cumberland.

Iowa City: The State Historical Society of Iowa, 1983. Staple-bound Softcover. Very Good. Pages crisp and clean, with no owners' marks; stapled binding secure. Cover shows a few very pale, gray smudges at left front and right rear and modest rubbing at corners, otherwise excellent. 32pp., black-and-white illustrations. ISSN 0031-0360 Lead article: 'Higher Education in Cedar Falls: Town and Gown in the First Hundred Years' by William C. Lang.