{"id":426,"date":"2012-03-12T12:04:38","date_gmt":"2012-03-12T12:04:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/forms.lib.uiowa.edu\/history\/heads\/a-pictorial-history-the-university-of-iowa-libraries-6\/"},"modified":"2021-03-31T20:17:53","modified_gmt":"2021-04-01T01:17:53","slug":"oldcapitol","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.lib.uiowa.edu\/history\/past\/oldcapitol\/","title":{"rendered":"Central Hall (Old Capitol) 1859 &#8211; 1882"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"historynav\">The Emerging University Library \u2013 1855-1951 <a href=\"\/history\/past\/mechanics\">previous<\/a> | <a href=\"\/history\/past\/northhall\/\">next<\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"width: 307px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/digital.lib.uiowa.edu\/cdm\/ref\/collection\/ictcs\/id\/1148\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lib.uiowa.edu\/history\/files\/oldcapitol1869.jpg\" alt=\"Old Capitol\" width=\"297\" height=\"218\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pentacrest in winter, The University of Iowa, 1869<\/p><\/div>\n<p>In 1859 the library moved to the Old Capitol building where the west half of the former Senate Chamber had been made into a library room.\u00a0 In 1878, due to lack of space, the library and reading room was moved to the north end of the first floor.<\/p>\n<p>Librarians:<br \/>\nAda N. North<br \/>\nAmos N. Currier, Professor of Latin<br \/>\nJoseph T. Robert<br \/>\nAnson Hart, Secretary and Librarian<br \/>\nTheodore S. Parvin, Professor of Natural History<br \/>\nD. Franklin Wells, Professor, Normal Department<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/digital.lib.uiowa.edu\/cdm\/search\/collection\/ictcs\/searchterm\/Old%20Capitol\/field\/folder\/mode\/exact\/conn\/and\/cosuppress\/Old+Capitol\">Additional Old Capitol images<\/a>\u00a0are available in the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/digital.lib.uiowa.edu\/\">Iowa Digital Library<\/a>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/digital.lib.uiowa.edu\/ictcs\">Iowa City Town and Campus Scenes collection<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Emerging University Library \u2013 1855-1951 previous | next In 1859 the library moved to the Old Capitol building where the west half of the former Senate Chamber had been [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"parent":416,"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\/426"}],"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=426"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.uiowa.edu\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/426\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1032,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.uiowa.edu\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/426\/revisions\/1032"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.uiowa.edu\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/416"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.uiowa.edu\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.uiowa.edu\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.uiowa.edu\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}