Edward John Iddings scrapbooks and lantern slides, 1904-1954

The four scrapbooks cover the years 1904 to 1954. Three of the scrapbooks contain newspaper clippings on agriculture in general, agricultural education, the University of Idaho, and Dean Iddings; the fourth contains letters to and from the Dean dealing with his leave of absence and retirement. They are:

Clippings on agriculture, Dean Iddings, the university, and handwritten notes, possibly for speeches, 1917-1946.

Correspondence with University President Harrison C. Dale and others concerning Idding's leave of absence and retirement, 1944-1946.

Clippings on Dean Iddings, university personnel, speech notes and programs for agricultural events, 1904-1947.

Correspondence, including a letter from Ezra Taft Benson (December 8, 1952), membership cards, clippings on agriculture and the university, 1918-1954.

The 160 lantern slides (3 duplicates) register images of an international trip by Dean of the College of Agriculture E.J. Iddings and his wife Maude Rowell in 1927. Iddings took a sabbatical leave from June to December to study agricultural practices abroad. He visited Great Britain and overseas dominions of the British Empire, including New Zealand, Australia, India, Ceylon, and Egypt. Other European countries in the tour included Germany, Denmark, Netherlands, Switzerland, France, and Italy. The images depict agricultural practices in the countries they visited, along with scenes of the cities, buildings, transportation, and people. In that occasion he participated as a delegate to the International Rotarians Convention in Ostend, Belgium. It may be that a few slides are not from this trip, but they are related to agriculture.

Included in this collection are also a 4 ¼ x 4 ¾ x 15 inch wood lantern slide case and six cardboard boxes from the manufacturer of the lantern slide plates.