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, 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, 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, IA: The State Historical Society of Iowa, 1985. Staple-bound Softcover. Very Good. Pages crisp and clean; stapled binding secure. Soft cover has a line of mild surface rubbing at the right rear, a tiny fold at each of the front free corners, and some rubbing at corners and spine ends, otherwise clean and excellent. 32pp., illustrated in black and white. ISSN 0031-0360 Lead article: 'The House on the Hill' by Wilma Lewis.

Iowa City: The State Historical Society of Iowa, 1986. Staple-bound Softcover. Very Good. Pages crisp and bright, with numerous illustrations; cover shows numerous short creases radiating from the spine on front and back, three small rub marks at the lower front, faint dust spotting at the left rear, and some surface wear along the spine, otherwise quite good. 32pp., staplebound. Lead article: 'Station WSUI and the Early Days of Instructional Radio' by Von V. Pittman, Jr.

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.