Eastern Iowa's Historic Barns and Other Farm Structures

Eastern Iowa's Historic Barns and Other Farm Structures
Author: Deb M. Schense
Publisher: Lulu.com
Total Pages: 217
Release: 2006
Genre: History
ISBN: 1430302739

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This book includes over 175 photographs covering twenty rural cities and eight different counties together with the first-ever Amana Colonies barn tour. Many different types of barns are displayed such as: octagonal, hexagonal, Pennsylvania, monitor, gambrel, and gable.--Back cover.

Eastern Iowa's Historic Barns and Other Farm Structures: Including the Amana Colonies - Color Version

Eastern Iowa's Historic Barns and Other Farm Structures: Including the Amana Colonies - Color Version
Author: Deb Schense
Publisher: Lulu.com
Total Pages: 111
Release: 2006-12-19
Genre: History
ISBN: 1430302747

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Originally there were approximately 200,000 barns built in Iowa. Now it is estimated that only 60,000 barns remain, with another 1,000 or more barns disappearing from Iowa's landscape annually. This book preserves in print Eastern Iowa's historic barns built from 1839 to 1955 with over 175 photographs from the author's research, the first ever Amana Colonies barn tour, the Johnson County Historical Society barn tour, and the Iowa Barn Foundation's annual barn tour. Eight Iowa counties and 20 rural cities are covered. Former president Hoover was living as a youth five miles from one of the featured octagonal barns when it was built in 1883. This barn's aesthetic beauty is so inspiring that people from other countries come to visit this barn each year to see the unusual bell shaped roof, a suspended staircase, a railway car, and laminated interior ribs. It may be the only barn built with a bell shaped roof and is thought to be the oldest surviving barn built of it's kind in the U. S.

Without Right Angles

Without Right Angles
Author: Lowell J. Soike
Publisher:
Total Pages: 116
Release: 1983
Genre: Barns
ISBN:

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Includes catalog of 160 round barns in Iowa.

Iowa Barn Foundation

Iowa Barn Foundation
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages:
Release: 1997*
Genre: Barns
ISBN:

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Harker's Barns

Harker's Barns
Author: Jim Heynen
Publisher: Bureau Oak Book
Total Pages: 116
Release: 2003
Genre: Photography
ISBN:

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"Complementing Harker's photographs are vignettes by poet and writer Jim Heynen. Both whimsical and endearing, each vignette treats barns as organic and intelligent entities, reflecting the living history that can be found inside each rural structure."--BOOK JACKET.

Barns Around Iowa

Barns Around Iowa
Author: Deb Schense
Publisher:
Total Pages: 128
Release: 2008
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 9781932043440

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Luella Hazeltine spent over a decade photographing barns in color. Since then, some are no longer standing, some are restored, and others have new uses. This 6x9" book of 128 pages is in color, county by county.

Historic Barns of Iowa State

Historic Barns of Iowa State
Author: Solon A. Ewing
Publisher:
Total Pages: 19
Release: 2000
Genre: Barns
ISBN:

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John M. Zielinski's Iowa Barns

John M. Zielinski's Iowa Barns
Author: John M. Zielinski
Publisher:
Total Pages: 52
Release: 1982
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN:

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Still Standing

Still Standing
Author: Michael P. Harker
Publisher: Bureau Oak Books
Total Pages: 30
Release: 2006-04
Genre: Photography
ISBN: 9780877459774

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The result of a seven-and-a-half-year undertaking to document Iowa's barns and all they represent, Harker's Barns: Visions of an American Icon featured seventy-five stunning black-and-white photographs by Michael Harker. An impressive and well-received collection, the book helped preserve the glory of one of rural America's most elemental icons. Still Standing, a postcard book of thirty of Harker's barn photographs---some from Harker's Barns, some previously unseen---continues that mission of preservation. Printed on heavy card stock and perforated for easy removal, the cards showcase midwestern barns-from square to round, wood to brick, Dutch to Swedish, occupied or abandoned, all symbolizing a passing way of life that was once the lifeblood of Iowa and the Midwest. As barns continue to disappear, these images will endure. “Barns Again! Celebrating an American Icon,” an exhibit of Harker's barn photos (with text by Loren Horton) sponsored by Humanities Iowa and organized by the Smithsonian Institution's Traveling Exhibition Service and the National Building Museum, with assistance from the National Trust for Historic Preservation, is currently touring Iowa.

Midwest Maize

Midwest Maize
Author: Cynthia Clampitt
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Total Pages: 305
Release: 2015-02-28
Genre: Cooking
ISBN: 0252096878

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Food historian Cynthia Clampitt pens the epic story of what happened when Mesoamerican farmers bred a nondescript grass into a staff of life so prolific, so protean, that it represents nothing less than one of humankind's greatest achievements. Blending history with expert reportage, she traces the disparate threads that have woven corn into the fabric of our diet, politics, economy, science, and cuisine. At the same time she explores its future as a source of energy and the foundation of seemingly limitless green technologies. The result is a bourbon-to-biofuels portrait of the astonishing plant that sustains the world.