{"id":520,"date":"2012-03-12T12:04:41","date_gmt":"2012-03-12T12:04:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/forms.lib.uiowa.edu\/history\/present\/a-pictorial-history-the-university-of-iowa-libraries-4\/"},"modified":"2025-09-12T10:22:57","modified_gmt":"2025-09-12T15:22:57","slug":"doors","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.lib.uiowa.edu\/history\/present\/doors\/","title":{"rendered":"The North Entrance"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"historynav\">The New Library Building \u2013 \u201cMain Library\u201d <a href=\"\/history\/present\/facades\">previous<\/a> | <a href=\"\/history\/present\/additions\/\">next<\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"width: 428px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/digital.lib.uiowa.edu\/cdm\/ref\/collection\/ictcs\/id\/17680\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lib.uiowa.edu\/history\/files\/darling-cartoons.jpg\" alt=\"Darling Cartoons on the North entrance.\" width=\"418\" height=\"270\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">North entrance of the Main Library, the University of Iowa, 1950s. (Iowa Digital Library: https:\/\/digital.lib.uiowa.edu\/node\/22564<\/p><\/div>\n<p><em>The Des Moines Register<\/em> cartoonist Jay N. &#8220;Ding&#8221; Darling was commissioned to draw the panels over the library&#8217;s entrance. The nine panels &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/digital.lib.uiowa.edu\/cdm\/compoundobject\/collection\/ding\/id\/11260\/rec\/6\">trace the development from cave men to the in-one-ear-out-the-other student of today<\/a>.&#8221; (<em>Look<\/em>, June 16, 1953)<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 210px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/digital.lib.uiowa.edu\/cdm\/compoundobject\/collection\/ding\/id\/11260\/rec\/6\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" \" src=\"http:\/\/www.lib.uiowa.edu\/history\/files\/darling.jpg\" alt=\"Darling cartoons on display in the Main Library.\" width=\"200\" height=\"144\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Iowa Digital Library https:\/\/digital.lib.uiowa.edu\/node\/179916)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The cartoon panels are now on display on the fourth floor of the Main Library.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The New Library Building \u2013 \u201cMain Library\u201d previous | next The Des Moines Register cartoonist Jay N. &#8220;Ding&#8221; Darling was commissioned to draw the panels over the library&#8217;s entrance. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"parent":512,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"pagetpl-default.php","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.uiowa.edu\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/520"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.uiowa.edu\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.uiowa.edu\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.uiowa.edu\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.uiowa.edu\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=520"}],"version-history":[{"count":25,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.uiowa.edu\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/520\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1175,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.uiowa.edu\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/520\/revisions\/1175"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.uiowa.edu\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/512"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.uiowa.edu\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.uiowa.edu\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.uiowa.edu\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}