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Guide to the Josiah Proctor Walton Papers

Collection Overview
Date Span:1838-1909
Creator:Walton, Josiah Proctor
Extent:17.00 .
Collection Number:MSC0194
Repository:University of Iowa Special Collections
Summary:Holograph forms and forms from the Smithsonian Institution and War Department. Also includes United States War Department, Office of the Chief Signal Officer's monthly summaries of voluntary observers' meteorological reports from various locations in Iowa.

Access: This collection is open for research.

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

Acquisition: This collection was donated to the University of Iowa Libraries by the Musser Public Library in Muscatine, Iowa, in 1968.

Preferred Citation: Josiah Proctor Walton Papers, 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/

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This collection is indexed under the following subject terms.


Personal Names:
Walton, Josiah Procter, 1826-1899

Topics:
Medicine
Meteorology

Geographic Names:
Muscatine County (Iowa)

Genre/Form of Materials:
Archives
Court records
Judicial records
Minute books
Weather diaries
Clippings (Information artifacts)
Correspondence