Description
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.
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Professor Pammel with a class at Ledges State Park
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Iowa State Plan--State Parks and Preserves
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General plan for the development of Backbone State Park
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Key list of plant materials to be placed in Iowa State Parks
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Professor Pammel wants Ledges for state park (The Boone News-Republican)
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Sketch plan for the landscape development of Backbone State Park located in Delaware County, Iowa
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Portrait of Louis Herman Pammel
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Rock Grove Forks, Backbone State Park, Iowa
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Dr. Pammel no longer heads botany department
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