The Palimpsest - Volume 65 Number 6 - November-December 1984
Iowa City: The State Historical Society of Iowa, 1984. Staple-bound Softcover. Very Good. Item #028566
Pages crisp and bright, with numerous illustrations; cover shows lines of gentle smudging at left front and right rear as well as a little wear at the spine tips, otherwise clean and attractive. 32pp. Articles include: 'The Death of an American College: A Retrospective Look' by Dean Gabbert; "Harvest Time" by Lenore Salvaneschi; "An Early Industry in Mills County: Ballast Burning" by Allen Wortman; etc. This is one of the most striking covers in Palimpsest history, with an image of two people installing a sign for Parsons College on the front, and the bankruptcy notice on the front door of the school nearly a hundred years later, in 1973. ISSN 0031-0360.
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