Video by Diane Porter of an Iceland Gull at Red Rock Reservoir, March 15, 1991. The video includes an interview with Tim Schantz, who discovered the gull, and narration that gives a detailed description of the Gull identifying features.
Video by Ed Thelen of a Hudsonian Godwit feeding in Swallow water with other shorebirds at Spring Run Complex Wildlife Management Area, October 19, 1995.
Iowa State College landscape architecture professor Philip H. Elwood took students on a tour of the southern and eastern United States in 1931. The first stop is Kansas City, where they visit the War Memorial, the country club area and stone houses in the old section, small parks at street intersections designed by landscape architecture firm Hare & Hare, private homes, gardens, a swimming pool with bath house (also designed by Hare & Hare), a small swimming pool in a park, and neighborhood shops. From there they travel to Hot Springs National Park, the Ozarks in Arkansas, and then Natchez, Mississippi, where they see the old rear-wheel riverboat Tennessee Belle unloading flour sacks. In Natchez they also view old homes and gardens, as well as crepe myrtle in bloom on lower slopes along the river and streets.
Iowa State College landscape architecture professor Philip H. Elwood took students on a tour in the summer of 1930. This video covers highlights of the Egypt and Palestine portions of that trip. In Alexandria, Egypt, the group makes a visit to an outdoor restaurant pavilion and sees a crowd at a railroad station as they prepare to depart for Cairo. The next stop is Heliopolis, a suburb and sporting resort of Cairo. By camels they visit the pyramids of Gizeh (Giza) and stop to rest in the desert near the Sphinx. Returning to Cairo they view the city from the heights of the Citadel, watch the English "Tommies" (soldiers) who are standing guard, and examine Moorish architectural details. Traveling back out into the Sahara where it is 120 degrees, they view the site of the Metropolitan Museum's recent excavations, the Great Step Pyramid, and the site of the tomb of Perneb. Back to Heliopolis, the group sees the Heliopolis Palace Hotel, modern apartments, the grandstand and Sultan's Royal Box, and the Indian Palace.
Iowa State College landscape architecture professor Philip H. Elwood, along with three Iowa State College students, made a trip of U.S. western national parks in the summer of 1927. This video contains clips from the Washington, Oregon, and California portions of that trip. Includes footage of some of the area around Paradise Inn in Mount Rainier National Park, the loading of logs in the port of Longview onto a Japanese steamship for export, the Columbia River valley, and Multnomah Falls. Includes footage of Portland (Oregon), Crater Lake National Park, San Francisco, Stanford University, Point Lobos in Monterey, and Vernal Falls in Yosemite (California).
Iowa State College landscape architecture professor Philip H. Elwood took students on a tour of the southern and eastern United States in 1931. The video shows the crossing of the bay at St. Petersburg and on to Fort Myers, where royal palms line the streets. Also shows the hotel grounds, Edison Park, and the winter home of Thomas Edison. From there the group travels to Coral Gables, where they visit small gardens, Hotel Biltmore, and the hotel swimming pool. It is then on to the Deering Estate in Coconut Grove, where they see the Italian details and the grounds of the winter home of Arthur Curtis James. From there it is on north past a golf club and hotel and past Miami. They see homes and gardens near Palm Beach and visit West Palm Beach.
Iowa State College landscape architecture professor Philip H. Elwood took students on a tour of the southern and eastern United States in 1931. The video shows stops in Tennessee, where they view a Confederate statue, homes in a small town, and boys playing football in a yard. From there they travel on to view a new power plant with a lake, dam, and new community for its workers.
Iowa State College landscape architecture professors Philip H. Elwood and Walter Popham took four students (Bethane Carpenter, John Hall, Max Bird, and Norman Morris) on a tour of Japan, China, the Philippine Islands, and Hawaii in 1929. This video covers highlights of Formosa (Taiwan), China, and Japan. In Amoy (Xiamen), China, the group first visits a private home, then sees Camel Rock from the garden of a merchant and the private garden of another wealthy Chinese merchant. From there it is on to Formosa and a shrine at Keelung (Chi-lung or Jilong) and a visit to the city square. It is then on to Taihoku (Taipei) to see a Chinese temple and Japanese shrine, a great camphor tree near the inn, and the proprietress and daughter of the Asumya Inn, Tainan. Also on the island they pass by banana orchards, rice fields, bamboo groves, Chinese homes, and distant mountains. They then travel back to Japan where they see wayside wanderers by the road, Mt. Hiei and Lake Biwa, wayside shrines, and giant cryptomerias. They also see the Garden of the Golden Pavilion (Kinkakuji) and Kyoto gardens;meet Professor Sekiguchi and Mr. Ida, their guides and hosts in Kyoto;see the gateway to Horai Garden;and view a street in Tokyo with newly planted trees. Sailing from Yokohama on board the Arabia Maru, they cross the "gentle" Pacific for the port of Victoria, British Columbia. From there they begin the journey back to Iowa by passing through the Cascade Mountains between Seattle and Portland.
Iowa State College landscape architecture professor Philip H. Elwood, along with three Iowa State College students, made a trip of U.S. western national parks in the summer of 1927. This video contains clips from the New Mexico, Colorado, and Ames portions of that trip. Includes footage of the Grand Canyon of Colorado;a Zuni village near Gallup, New Mexico;Mesa Verde National Park;Ouray, Colorado;Rocky Mountain National Park;and marching bands at the annual Shrine picnic on central campus.
Episode of the "Sew easy" television program produced by Iowa State College, presented by the Iowa State College Extension Service, and sponsored by Home Craft Films. In this episode host Lucille Rea discusses making a list of everything needed to complete the dress so that it all can be purchased in one trip and buying the right size and type of pattern.
Episode of the "Sew easy" television program produced by Iowa State College, presented by the Iowa State College Extension Service, and sponsored by Home Craft Films. In this episode host Lucille Rea discusses altering the blouse pattern and matching the alterations to those made to the skirt.
Episode of the "Sew easy" television program produced by Iowa State College, presented by the Iowa State College Extension Service, and sponsored by Home Craft Films. In this episode host Lucille Rea discusses making alterations to the pattern before cutting out your fabric for your skirt.
Episode of the "Sew easy" television program produced by Iowa State College, presented by the Iowa State College Extension Service, and sponsored by Home Craft Films. In this episode host Lucille Rea discusses getting the fabric ready for sewing and shows what can happen if you do not.
Episode of the "Sew easy" television program produced by Iowa State College, presented by the Iowa State College Extension Service, and sponsored by Home Craft Films. In this episode host Lucille Rea discusses the unit method of construction, the layout of the sewing area, and getting your machine ready to sew.
Episode of the "Sew easy" television program produced by Iowa State College, presented by the Iowa State College Extension Service, and sponsored by Home Craft Films. In this episode host Lucille Rea discusses joining the front and back units of the blouse, joining the shoulder and neck seams, and pressing and finishing seams.
Episode of the "Sew easy" television program produced by Iowa State College, presented by the Iowa State College Extension Service, and sponsored by Home Craft Films. In this episode host Lucille Rea discusses joining the finished collar to the neckline.
Episode of the "Sew easy" television program produced by Iowa State College, presented by the Iowa State College Extension Service, and sponsored by Home Craft Films. In this episode host Lucille Rea discusses starting sewing on the first unit, the direction of sewing, and stay stitching, darts, pleats, and pressing.
