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Darling Cartoons on the North entrance.

North entrance of the Main Library, the University of Iowa, 1950s. (Iowa Digital Library: https://digital.lib.uiowa.edu/node/22564

The Des Moines Register cartoonist Jay N. “Ding” Darling was commissioned to draw the panels over the library’s entrance. The nine panels “trace the development from cave men to the in-one-ear-out-the-other student of today.” (Look, June 16, 1953)

Darling cartoons on display in the Main Library.

Iowa Digital Library https://digital.lib.uiowa.edu/node/179916)

 

 

The cartoon panels are now on display on the fourth floor of the Main Library.