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1Title:  Iowa as it is in 1856: a gazetteer for citizens, and a hand-book for immigrants, embracing a full description of the state of Iowa    
 Creator:  Parker, Nathan Howe. 
 Publication:  Keen & Lee, Chicago, Ill,1856. 
 Call #:  F44J P243 
 Extent:  xvi,[17]-282p. front.,plates, fold.map. 19cm. 
 Subjects:  Iowa -- Description and travel
 
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2Title:  Iowa emigrant: containing a map and general descriptions of Iowa Territory. Printed by W. C. Jones    
 Creator:  Galland, Issac, 1790-1858 
 Publication:  Iowa City,1950?] 
 Call #:  F44J G163 
 Extent:  xiv, 28 p. fold. map. 24 cm. 
 Subjects:  Iowa -- Description and travel
 
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3Title:  Iowa as it is in 1855: a gazetteer for citizens, and a hand-book for immigrants, embracing a full description of the state of Iowa ... Information for the immigrant respecting the selection, entry, and cultivation of prairie soil: a list of unentered lands in the state &c    
 Creator:  Parker, Nathan H. (Nathan Howe) 
 Publication:  Keen and Lee, Chicago,1855. 
 Call #:  F44J P241 
 Extent:  xv, 17-264 p. : front., plates, fold. map, diagr. ; 19 cm. 
 Subjects:  Iowa -- Description and travel
 
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4Title:  Iowa as it is in 1857: a gazetteer for citizens, and a handbook for immigrants, embracing a full description of the state of Iowa    
 Creator:  Parker, Nathan Howe. 
 Publication:  Keen & Lee, Chicago,1857. 
 Call #:  F44J P242I 
 Extent:  282 p. : ill., map ; 20 cm. 
 Subjects:  Iowa -- Description and travel
 
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5Title:  The Iowa handbook for 1856: With a new and correct map    
 Creator:  Parker, Nathan Howe. 
 Publication:  J. P. Jewett and company, Sheldon, Blakeman and company; [etc., etc.], Boston, New York,1856. 
 Call #:  F44J P242 
 Extent:  viii, 9-188 p. front. (map) 19 cm. 
 Subjects:  Iowa -- Description and travel
 
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6Title:  Sketches of Iowa and Wisconsin    
 Creator:  Plumbe, John, 1809-1857 
 Publication:  State Historical Society of Iowa, Iowa City,1948. 
 Notes:  Reproduction of the original ed., which has title: Sketches of Iowa and Wisconsin, taken during a residence of three years in those territories. St. Louis, Chambers, Harris & Knapp, 1839. Description of Iowa only. The second part of the work, on Wisconsin, was not published. 
 Call #:  F44J P735 
 Extent:  xvii p., facsim., (103 p. fold. map) port. 21 cm. 
 Subjects:  Iowa -- Description and travel
 
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7Title:  Iowa: the home for immigrants: being a treatise on the resources of Iowa and giving useful information with regard to the State for the benefit of immigrants and others    
 Creator:  Iowa Board of Immigration. 
 State Historical Society of Iowa
 Publication:  State Historical Society of Iowa, Iowa City,1970. 
 Notes:  Cover title. 
 Call #:  F44C I64I 1970 
 Extent:  iv, 96 p. map (on p. [4] of cover) 23 cm. 
 Subjects:  Iowa -- Description and travel | Iowa -- Emigration and immigration
 
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8Title:  Report of the Iowa Columbian commission: containing a full statement of it proceedings    
 Creator:  Iowa Columbian Commission 
 Publication:  Republican printing company, Cedar Rapids, Ia,1895. 
 Notes:  "Handbook of Iowa": p. 223-377. 
 Call #:  F44J I64 
 Extent:  421 p., 1 l. incl. front., illus., pl., ports. map. 24 cm. 
 Subjects:  World's Columbian Exposition -- (1893 : -- Chicago, Ill.) -- Iowa | Iowa -- Description and travel
 
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9Title:  A journal of a missionary tour through Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Iowa, Wisconsin and Michigan: comprising a concise description of different sections of country; health of climate; inducements for emigration with the embarrassments; the religious condition of the people; meetings connected with the mission; and of the great western prairies    
 Creator:  Scott, James Leander. 
 Publication:  The author, Providence,1843. 
 Notes:  The author was a missionary of the Seventh-day Baptist denomination. 
 Call #:  F33J S427 Vault 
 Extent:  203 p. 19 cm. 
 Subjects:  Seventh-Day Baptists -- Missions | Northwest, Old -- Description and travel | Iowa -- Description and travel
 
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10Title:  The book that gave to Iowa its name: a reprint    
 Creator:  Lea, Albert Miller, 1807-1890 
 Publication:  State Historical Society of Iowa, Iowa City, Ia,1935. 
 Notes:  Includes reprint of t.-p. of original: Notes on Wisconsin territory ... by Lieutenant Albert M. Lea ... Philadelphia, H. S. Tanner, 1836. And of cover-title: Notes on the Wisconsin territory; particularly with reference to the Iowa district, or Black Hawk purchase. 
 Call #:  F44C L433 
 Extent:  vi, 53 p. fold. map. 18 cm. 
 Subjects:  Iowa -- Description and travel | Wisconsin -- Description and travel | Iowa -- Names
 
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11Title:  A thrilling narrative of the horrible sufferings & miraculous escape of Samuel Brown: being four days & four nights exposed to the inclemency of the severest freezing weather that had been felt in that county for many years    
 Creator:  Brown, Samuel, b.1828 
 McGaw, James F.
 Everett D. Graff Collection of Western Americana (Newberry Library)
 Publication:  J. Iler, Uhrichsville, Ohio,1852. 
 Notes:  In case. Forms part of the Everett D. Graff Collection of Western Americana at the Newberry Library. 
 Call #:  Pam. 156 Vault 
 Extent:  63 p. 19 cm. 
 Subjects:  Brown, Samuel, -- 1828- | Harrison County (Ohio) -- Biography | Iowa -- Description and travel | Ohio imprints 1852
 
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