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The SHSI maintains a museum, library, archives, and research center in Des Moines and a research library in Iowa City, as well as several historic sites in Iowa. It was founded in 1857 in Iowa City, where it was first affiliated with the University of Iowa.
Concord, N.H., Printed by the Republican press association. James, Moran (1973). Printing presses: history and development from the fifteenth century to modern times. London, Faber. ISBN 978-0-520-02904-0. Morehouse, Clifford Phelps (1942). Origins of the Episcopal Church Press from Colonial Days to 1940. Morgan, Edmund Sears (1953).
The Iowa City Public Library (ICPL) was established in 1896 to serve the people of Iowa City, IowaCurrently located in a new facility at the intersection of college and Linn Streets on the downtown pedestrian mall, ICPL serves a population of 69,000 residents of Iowa City, and through contract, residents of unincorporated Johnson County, University Heights and Hills.
The American Printing History Association issued a printed newsletter for members six times per year beginning in 1974. National business meetings were held and the first annual program took place on in October 1976 at Columbia University in the Harkness Theater.
Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railroad Depot (Iowa City, Iowa) Clark House (Iowa City, Iowa) Close House (Iowa City, Iowa) College Block Building; College Green Historic District; Congregational United Church of Christ (Iowa City, Iowa) Czecho Slovakian Association Hall (Iowa City, Iowa)
While the magnificent 1923 catalog was typical of its day at 1148 pages, subsequent editions were ever smaller. The 1934 catalog was only 207 pages, while the 1941 catalog was only slightly smaller at 191 pages. By 1956 the "descriptive index of types" was down to only 24 pages, but this recovered a little by 1966's catalog of 30 pages.
1967 – Robert Rauschenberg created his six-foot-tall Booster, a "milestone in the history of American printmaking". It was at the time the largest lithograph ever made (approx. 72 x 35 5/8 inches), mixing lithographic and screen printing techniques to enable the artist to create the effects he wanted. [93]
The district was significantly altered in the 1970s by the city's urban renewal effort that brought about the Ped Mall (City Plaza), which transformed two blocks of College Street from Clinton Street to Linn Street and Dubuque Street from Burlington Street to Washington Street. It is the contributing site and the large planters/retaining walls ...