1964 Library Notes



Summer is an excellent time to visit your State Historical and Genealogical Library.  Air Conditioning?  Well, no.  Not even the cloistered quiet of the scholar's retreat.  Our doors are open to the sounds of boys and girls discovering the uniform of the great Bobby Feller or seeing for the first time the handwriting of the Father of their own country.

Be a pioneer.  Come away!  If you are looking for an ever-so-great uncle in Pennsylvania, we offer you a welcome, a chair and armloads of books.  If you want to follow the activities of General Grenville Dodge in summer, 1864, we know just where to find the right manuscripts.  If you want to brouse, (sic) why not read again the story of a certain Judge Charles Mason and Ralph, the slave, in old Debuque.

A very wise president in our own century reminded American:  “A nation which does not remember what it was yesterday, does not know what it is today, nor what it is trying to do. . .”

Source:  Annals of Iowa, Summer 1964, Third Series Vol. 37, No. 5, page 400.

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