Philip H. Elwood Films
Silent films by an Iowa State landscape architecture professor
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About the collection
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.
Accessibility information
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Technical Credits - CollectionBuilder
This digital collection is built with CollectionBuilder, an open source framework for creating digital collection and exhibit websites that is developed by faculty librarians at the University of Idaho Library following the Lib-Static methodology.
Using the CollectionBuilder-CSV template and the static website generator Jekyll, this project creates an engaging interface to explore driven by metadata.