Collection Guide

Guide Contents Administrative Information Biographical and Historical Information Scope and Contents of the Collection Related Materials Acquisition and Processing Information Inventory

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Administrative Information

Access and Restrictions: This collection is open for research.

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Biographical Note

James C. Taylor, Jr., was born April 1916 in Ottumwa, Iowa. He earned a degree in public law from Northwestern and served during World War II with the 38th Infantry. Besides being an author James Taylor, Jr. worked in advertising at his agency in Ottumwa.

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Scope and Contents

Notes, bibliography, and manuscript of Taylor's book Ottumwa -- One Hundred Years a City

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Related Materials

Ottumwa: One Hundred Years A City

Special Collections, Iowa Authors Collection

Main Library, call number Oversize folio F629 O9 T4

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Acquisition and Processing Information

These papers were given to the University of Iowa Libraries by James C. Taylor in 1949.

Guide posted to Internet: August 2004

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Inventory

Ottumwa -- One Hundred Years a City

Miscellaneous pages, notes, bibliography, etc.

Typescript -- multiple chapter drafts with corrections and revisions

Newspaper article, 1948

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