Certificate of Appointment, 195

Includes 1943 teaching staff roll, agricultural trends report, correspondence on changing to semester plan (Iowa State College, 1952), statistical data on A and M, 1932-1944.

Contains correspondence from admirers, pamphlet on need for buildings at A and M, newspaper clippings about A and M under Walton's leadership.

Collection includes 1907 or 1908 game at Kyle Field with Mr. and Mrs. Kyle in buggy, 1909 O.U. Game in Dallas, Corps greeting President Taft with Kyle in the background, first board fence around Kyle Field. Many photos are captioned.

1999 print of SF&F artist Donato Giancola's cover for Devenport's 1996 novel EggHeads, featuring the man character, An.

Item 36 - Promissory note from Rose Hill Park Cemetery to Mrs. W. H. Mays by Gertrude Mays, regarding the purchase of a cemetery plot, dated October 23, 1926

Item 37 - Deed from Rose Hill Park Cemetery to Mrs. W. H. Mays, dated October 23, 1926

Item 38 - Letter from Rose Hill Park Cemetery to Mrs. W. H. Mays, dated October 23, 1928

"Disposable" (later titled "Death Warmed Over", 2013) - draft manuscript, Disposable_draft3.docx (Microsoft Word file)

• Six notebooks or exercise tablets, each measuring 26 x 21 cm.
• Five of the exercise tablets have red cloth taped binding at the tops, with white machine ruled pages and white paper covers, illustrated with a design which includes the United States flag with 44 gold stars and thirteen stripes on it, aloft against a pale blue sky, with "THE STARS AND STRIPES" in gold letters outlined in red at the top.
• Since these tablets couldn't have been produced at least until after 1890 when Wyoming became the forty-fourth state in the Union, this copy of the diary had to have been copied out twenty-five years or more after the original entries were made in 1862-1865.
• The sixth exercise tablet is similar in size, but with green tape binding at the top, a buff-colored cover, and a design incorporating a leaf and vine design in which the words "A COLUMBUS EXERCISE TABLET, PRICE 5 CTS" is divided in the center by a round seal of a sun rising over a tree-surrounded field of harvested wheat sheaves labeled "THE SEAL OF OHIO LINE". Below is an underlined space labeled "Name" and beside it another underlined space labeled "Teacher".
• All six notebooks have been rubber-stamped in black ink on covers and all pages, probably by a later owner in the twentieth century, with a three-line label: "Civil War Diary of, John Henry Bliler, 1862-1863-1864-1865".
• Front covers of the notebooks are also inscribed in ink as well, apparently in John Henry Bliler's hand, with a numbering sequence as follows:
  • "no 2 of 7 AND No. 1 of 7"
  • "No 3 OF 7, From November 11, 1863, To May 16 [carat] inclusive 1864"
  • "NO 4 OF 7, From May 17, 1864, To [unclear] 3rd [ditto i.e. 1864] inclusive"
  • "NO 5 OF 7, From October 4, 1864, to November 30 inclusive 1864"
  • "From November 30, 1865 to April 12, 1863 [Note: part of this in pencil to replace information from a torn area on cover], No 6 OF 7"
  • "No 7 OF 7"
• Pages of the diary are numbered continuously in the lower right corner of each notebook in pencil: 1-9 [i.e. 8], 9, 11-25 [notebook "No 2"]; 26-44 [notebook "No 3"]; 45-64 [notebook "No 4"]; 65-83 [notebook "No 5"]; 84-106 [notebook "No 6"]; 107-123 [notebook "No 7"].
• The penciled page numbers and a few other notes were probably made by a later owner of the diary, to construct the index which accompanies the photostatic copy of the original pages and the typewritten transcript held in a blue three-ring binder, described in Series 2. The text of the black-inked three-line rubber stamped label on the notebooks' covers and pages match exactly that of the typed label affixed to the front cover of this blue three-ring binder.
• Each of the first five exercise books is also stamped in blue ink on the cardboard back cover with a three-line label: "From STEIGLER BROS., 520 Central Avenue, HOT SPRINGS, - ARK." Steigler Brothers is a bookstore and may have been the original purveyor of the blank exercise books.
• Entries written by Bliler are in pencil and black or blue ink. All pages have come apart from the top bindings of the exercise tablets. Some water damage obscures a few entries, and a very few pages have torn edges by which portions of entries have been lost irretrievably, but the handwriting is overall very legible.

Item 1 - Deed of Conveyance, handwritten, from James Gallagher to Charles Avery for Lot. No. 8, Block No. 28, Corpus Christi, TX. Dated August 14, 1866. (2 pages, sleeved separately, writing on front and back)

Item 2 - Deed of Conveyance, handwritten, from Charles Avery to Clara St. Clair for Lot. No. 8, Block No. 28, Corpus Christi, TX. Dated August 18, 1866.

Item 3 - Deed of Conveyance, handwritten, from the Estate of Charles Avery Executors to Clara St. Clair, dated December 27, 1869 (2 pages connected along the top of both pages, writing on front and back)

Item 4 - Deed of Conveyance, handwritten, from J. Temple Droswell to Clara St. Clair for Lot No. 8, Block No. 28. Dated May 1, 1872

Item 18 - Envelope, handwritten “Deed of Conveyance - William Harrison Mays - April 29, 1872” on front

Item 19 - Deed, handwritten, made out to Harrison Mays for Lot No. 1, Block No. 43, Corpus Christi, TX, dated April 29, 1872 (1 sheet connected along the top, 4 pages)

This folder contains the following:

• Copy of April 21, 1951, Memorial Student Center dedication ceremony pamphlet, with a list of the Aggie dead honored.
• A pin from the opening of the Museum of Yunnan-Burmese Anti-Japanese War, a.k.a. the Tengchong War Museum.