Look for this logo and associated links throughout Our Iowa Heritage website. It will tell you that there’s a story or two, or a Fred Kent photograph taken from this 1976 Press-Citizen Bicentennial edition.
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SUI – The Early Days 1847-1860.
1855-1860 – Everything’s ‘Normal’ In Iowa City.
D.F. Wells – It Is Well With SUI.
Wm. G. Hammond – Let There Be Law In Iowa City!
The Hospitals Of Iowa City.
1880’s – A Tour Of The SUI Campus. SUI Red Brick Campus –The Golden Age Of The State University of Iowa. SUI or UI – What’s In A Name?
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Iowa’s Own Rocket Man – Dr. James Van Allen.
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1889-1894 – The Hawkeyes’ First Football Rivalry.
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1939 – Nile Kinnick’s Big Ten.
Iowa Football – The Five Elite Hawkeye Coaches.
Look for this logo and associated links throughout Our Iowa Heritage website. It will tell you that there’s a story or two, or a Fred Kent photograph taken from this 1976 Press-Citizen Bicentennial edition.
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Kudos to the amazing resources below for the many quotes, photographs, etc. used on this page.
University’s first problem: finding students, Tom Walsh, Iowa City Press-Citizen, July 1, 1976, p 45
The arts at the University of Iowa, Loren Hickerson, Iowa City Press-Citizen, July 1, 1976, p 46
UI had key role in early space research, Iowa City Press-Citizen, July 1, 1976, p 47
First ‘official’ Iowa football played in 1889, Al Grady, Iowa City Press-Citizen, July 1, 1976, p 48
Iowa joins the Big Ten … and is expelled, Al Grady, Iowa City Press-Citizen, July 1, 1976, p 48