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| Iowa Arts Council | Title: Iowa Arts Council Folk Arts Program Records, 1976-2006
Contents: Iowa Arts Council: approximately 35 boxes containing manuscript materials, sound recordings, 35 mm color slides, color and black-and-white photographs, videocassettes, and computer diskettes; State Historical Society of Iowa Museum Division: 6 file drawers containing manuscript materials, audiocassettes, 35 mm color slides, black-and-white negatives, contact sheets, and photographs. Unique Identifier: CSUMC0032-CG Summary: These records represent the productive and varied work that has characterized the state folk arts program at the Iowa Arts Council for more than two decades. Collections include administrative files and ethnographic documentation for numerous projects, programs, and productions, including folk arts apprenticeships, folk arts in education outreach, folklife programming technical assistance, exhibits, folklife festivals, and folk arts tours. Ethnographic materials and productions represent the work of more than 60 folklorists and community scholars, and hundreds of folk artists of diverse indigenous, old and new immigrant ethnic backgrounds that range from North and South America, to Africa, southeast Asia, the Middle East, the Mediterranean, and Europe. Practices documented include varied musical, dance, needlework, metalworking, and woodworking traditions, beadwork and fingerweaving, foodways and egg decorating, and occupational traditions like fishing and net making, farming and animal husbandry, fire fighting, trucking, auctioneering and insurance sales, and more. Spiritual sites, ethnic markets, restaurants, and community organizations have also received attention. Key productions include seminal folk arts exhibits and exhibit catalogs, national, multi-state, and state folklife festivals, multi-state folk arts tours, a variety of ethnic tours in the state, an Iowa Folklife Directory and database, and an education guide, Iowa Folklife: Our People, Communities, and Traditions. |
| Iowa County (Wis.). Board of Supervisors | Title: Iowa County (Wis.). Board of Supervisors: Proceedings, 1830-1914
Quantity: 2 reels of microfilm (35mm) Call Number: Iowa Micro Series 30 Abstract: Minutes of the meetings of the Iowa County Board of Supervisors, and its predecessors, the County Court of Supervisors and the Board of Commissioners; arranged chronologically. |
| Iowa County (Wis.). Clerk | Title: Iowa County (Wis.). Clerk: Agricultural Statistics, 1874-1923
Quantity: 0.8 c.f. (2 archives boxes) Call Number: Iowa Series 7 Abstract: Statistics filed with the county clerk by town assessors showing amount of principal crops grown during the preceding year, acreages growing during the reporting year, number and value of livestock, and amount and value of dairy products. |
| Iowa County (Wis.). Clerk | Title: Iowa County (Wis.). Clerk: Dairy Statistics, 1903-1916
Quantity: 0.8 c.f. (2 archives boxes) Call Number: Iowa Series 8 Abstract: Dairy statistics, handwritten on printed forms, showing name of owner or operator; name and address of owner or operator; name of company; valuation and location of creameries, cheese factories, or condenseries; number of patrons and contributory cows; pounds of milk received; and amounts of butter, cheese, and condensed milk produced. |
| Iowa County (Wis.). Clerk | Title: Iowa County (Wis.). Clerk: Territorial Assessment Rolls, 1839-1847
Quantity: 2.4 c.f. (6 flat boxes including 25 volumes) and 1 reel of microfilm (35mm) Call Number: Iowa Series 57; Iowa Micro Series 8 Abstract: Rolls are cased in original leather saddlebags and show name of town and district, name of property owner, description of land by town and section or lot and block, valuation, tax rate, and value of personal property, merchandise, and corporation stocks; also certificates of assessors. Portions of these records are also available on microfilm. |
| Iowa County (Wis.). Register of Deeds | Title: Iowa County (Wis.). Register of Deeds: Deeds, 1835-1947
Quantity: 39 reels of microfilm (35mm) Call Number: Iowa Series 75 Abstract: Warranty, quit claim, and other deeds and government land patents for land located in Iowa County. Records show names of persons involved in land transfers and a description of the land. |
| Iowa County (Wis.). Register of Deeds | Title: Iowa County (Wis.). Register of Deeds: Grantor and Grantee Indexes, 1835-1909
Quantity: 5 reels of microfilm (35mm) Call Number: Iowa Series 76 Abstract: Index to names of grantors (sellers) and grantees (purchasers) of deeds and mortgages to real estate. Includes date recorded, names of grantor and grantee, description of property, and volume and page number where recorded. This series indexes Iowa County deed record volumes (Iowa Series 75). |
| Iowa County (Wis.). Treasurer | Title: Iowa County (Wis.). Treasurer: Tax Rolls, 1839
, 1841-1846
, 1848-1965
Quantity: 134.2 c.f. (1747 volumes) Call Number: Iowa Series 70 Abstract: Record of the assessed value of and the amount of taxes levied and collected on each parcel of real estate and from every individual with taxable personal property. The tax roll typically gives a description of the property, the name of the owner, assessed valuation, tax levied, and a record of payments. Since 1900, only every fifth year's tax roll has been retained. |
| - - - | Title: Iowa County Cemetery Records, ca. 1976
Quantity: 1 reel of microfilm (35mm) Call Number: Platteville Micro 19; Micro 649 Abstract: Alphabetical lists of names, birth and death dates, and other gravestone information for over 65 cemeteries in Iowa County, Wisconsin; transcribed by Alva Spargo and others. |