Iowa State Parks Collection

A selection of correspondence, photographs, maps, and other materials pertaining to the people and programs active in the Iowa state park movement.

Contents: About the collection | Related resources | Accessibility| Tech

About the collection

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.

A More Beautiful Iowa: Iowa’s State Parks System digital exhibit

Accessibility information

The Iowa State University Library is committed to providing access to its digital content. Certain material, particularly older materials, handwritten documents, and visual content, present unique challenges in providing fully accessible resources. If you are experiencing barriers to accessing, viewing, or navigating the Digital Collections site please contact us for assistance or to request additional formats.

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.

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