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Blair Hall. Museum. Books and Photographs.
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- 1884-1898 (Creation)
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The Parker Museum at Iowa College was established after the cyclone of 1882. Book 1: List of Minerals, Fossils, Rock Specimens. Museum. Paleontolopgy. Items numbered 1-1206. Book 2: Class L Lot 112. Lists of Specimens Entered for the Premium on Minerals, Follsils and Conehology (?). Book 3: Catalogue of J. S. Kingsley's (J. Sterling). 1854-1875. Gave his collection to the Museum of Grinnell College circa 1884. Loose papers inside book. One is a letter from H. W. Parker to Professor Barbour, dated October 8, 1889. Antoher dated July 1, 1890, is from Charles H. Wood to Prof. H . Edson. A thired is dated September 10, 1890, from Wood to Edson. Book 4: Catalogue of the Minerals in the Parker Museum of Natural History, Iowa College. Note inside cover: catalogue made out in 1897 by H. W. Norris. Book 5: Catalogue of Rock Specimens, Parker Museum. Note inside cover: catalogue made out in 1898 by H. W. Norris. Loose papers inside book include list of specimens from E. H. Barbour; 2 sketches done by "TB" dated June 15, 1973; a list generated in March 1886 by H. F. Hegner of Conover, Iowa (written from Decorah, Iowa.) Additional publication: Geological Summary. Undated; Zoology and Botany, catalogue no. 179, 1952; Turtox News, March, 1956, vol. 34, no. 3.