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Palimpsest 1994 Spring V75#1 Cleaning the Fires and Working the Wires
The Palimpsest Vol 75 No 1 Spring 1994 Palimpsest, The State Historical Society of Iowa,
CONTENTS
2 The Iron Lung as History: A Curator's Thoughts by Jack Lufkin
Recognizing the power of an object to convey the past.
4 An Iowa Polio Portfolio, 1939 to 1959 by the editor
Human dimensions of a twentieth-century epidemic.
16 Cleaning the Fires and Working the Wires: From Railroad Engine Watchman to Station Agent-Telegrapher in 1940s Iowa by Robert L. Dyson
Railroad depots were once vital centers of community and technology. An insider's account of the trains and telegraphs that linked Iowans fifty years ago.
30 Smith Wildman Brookhart: The Man Who "Taught the Army How to Shoot" by George William McDaniel
From the Iowa National Guard, to the National Rifle Association, to the U.S. Senate-Smith Brookhart crusaded relentlessly for rifle training.
46 Leprosy in Iowa: The Tale of Ole K. Hill by Richard M. Caplan
A look at the incidence of leprosy in Norwegian immigrants.
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