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Guide to the Elmer Bockes Diaries

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Collection Overview
Date Span:1893-1940
Creator:Bockes, Elmer
Extent:1.50 linear feet.
Collection Number:MSC0063
Repository:University of Iowa Special Collections
Summary:Farmer. Diaries describing farm life near Conrad, in Grundy Co.,Iowa .

The Bockes collection consists of forty-seven one-year diaries of Elmer Bockes and Russell Bockes, farmers near Conrad, Iowa. According to his daughter, "He didn't always put down the temperature, but what they did every day.

Access: This collection is open for research.

Use: Copyright restrictions may apply; please consult Special Collections staff for further information.

Acquisition: This collection was given to the University of Iowa by Florence A. Draper in 1959.

Preferred Citation: Elmer Bockes Diaries, The University of Iowa Libraries, Iowa City, Iowa.

Repository:University of Iowa Special Collections
Address:Special Collections Department
University of Iowa Libraries
Iowa City, IA 52242
Phone:319-335-5921
Curator:Greg Prickman
Email:lib-spec@uiowa.edu
Website:http://www.lib.uiowa.edu/spec-coll/

Browse by Series:
Series 1: DIARIES

  • Series 1: DIARIES
  • Box 1:
  • Diaries of Elmer Bockes (22 items) - 1893-1914
  • Box 2:
  • Diaries of Elmer Bockes (16 items) - 1915-1930
  • Box 3:
  • Diaries of Elmer Bockes (10 items) - 1931-1940
  • Diaries of Russell Bockes (5 items) - 1915; 1933-1935

This collection is indexed under the following subject terms.


Personal Names:
Bockes, Elmer
Bockes, Russell

Topics:
Country life

Occupations:
Farmers

Geographic Names:
Grundy County (Iowa)
Grundy County (Iowa)
Grundy County (Iowa)

Genre/Form of Materials:
Diaries
Diaries
Diaries
Sources
Sources