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This document describes a collection of materials held by the
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University of Iowa Libraries
Iowa City, Iowa 52242-1420
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Advertising, general. Newspaper clippings

Advertising, Des Moines Register and Tribune, Des Moines Register and Leader. Newspaper clippings and photocopies. 4 folders

Berryman, C.K., The Evening Star. Photographic reproduction of a cartoon featuring Ding.

Calendar, 1932. Illustrated with a drawing of Uncle John Iowa. Des Moines Sunday Register

Captiva Food Products. Sea Grape Jelly. Label

The Christian Advocate

"Remember, filling our own cellar with coal isn't all we have to do to get ready for winter." Reprint from the New York Tribune

Christmas card from the White Sparrows

Condensed Ink. Publicity. Des Moines Register and Leader. 1914

The Cruise of the Bouncing Betsy. List of illustrations

Des Moines Police Burial and Protective Association. Souvenir, annual ball, February 6, 1932

Ding Goes to Russia. List of illustrations. 

Ding Goes to Russia.  Photographic reproductions of the illustrations used in the book in flat file drawer 3

Donohue, Enid P. "Conchosis." Poem illustrated by Darling

Emergency Fleet News

To accompany "The Shipbuilder's Bridge for Pershing." Monday, March 11, 1918

Farm and Fireside

To accompany "What Hit Farming?" April, 1922

To accompany "What's the Matter with the Young Folks?" December 1922

Fullerton, Robert.  The Twentieth Century Unlimited: a review of how we grow, with a glance at the passing show.  Des Moines, IA: The Kenyon Company, 1916.

Photocopies of pages with illustrations by Darling, 1 folder.

Helm, E.C. "Wisconsin Deer Hunting Stories," Sports Afield.

Hoilien, Jerry. "Wardens Diary". Iowa Conservationist, January 1989

The Hoover Committee. Thank you/Christmas card for donors

Hunting and Fishing

To accompany "Some Interesting Facts About Ducks Unlimited" by Ray Benson, December 1938

The Iowa Press Association dinner menu, February 10, 1916.

The Iowa State Women's Golf Tournament, 1929

John Darling Has a New Baby Sister.  October 20, 1912.

Library Binding Service

To accompany advertisement "Good Books for Family Reading", Des Moines, circa 1930.

Lions Club Magazine

To accompany "The Blind Want Training, Not Charity." April, 1925.

The Literary Magazine Supplement Cover Illustrations, 1909-1910.  in flat file drawer 3

"The Long, Long Trail." January, 7, 1919

Proof, clipping, and copies

Roosevelt House Bulletin, "The Long Long Trail Into a Far Country." Reprinted from the New York Tribune. Fall Issue, 1922

Maui Agricultural Association. Copy of Annual Report

Miscellaneous Magazine Cover Illustrations, including Farm and Fireside and Wallace's Farmer in flat file drawer 3

Missouri Tuberculosis Association. "Help Save Missouri 3,000 Lives a Year." Reprint of "Remember, filling our cellar with coal isn't all we have to do to get get ready for winter." With "Buy Tuberculosis Christmas Seals" added

Northwestern Christian Advocate

The American White Cross Ministers to the Needy and Distressed Through Methodist Hospitals and Homes. Wednesday, December 1, 1920

Our Great Out-Of-Doors, a portfolio of cartoons. Photocopy of cover with inscription to John Henry signed by Ding, not dated.

The Palimpsest, Vol. 76, No. 2, Summer 1995.

To accompany "In the Full Light of Day -- The Ku Klux Klan in 1920s Iowa"by Robert J. Neymeyer.

 

The Passing Show, Other People's Views. November 10, 1917.

Rollin Hoisery

Sioux City Journal

"Possibly the junior senator from South Dakota numbers this among his souvenirs" to accompany article "Mr. Hoover's Chance", May 10, 1930.

Southern Surety News

"We Ought to Be Glad We're Alive." Reprinted from the Des Moines Register

Successful Farming

It grips father. Ad for Successful Farming

It's a cold day when you can't hear a new cause of financial depression. Ad for Successful Farming

Since we are cutting down our timber each year six times as fast as it can grow -- and it takes 300 years to grow a good saw log." Reprinted from the Des Moines Register. July 1921

Cover Illustrations 1910-1915 in flat file drawer 3  

Please also see Darling cartoons for advertising in Successful Farming in the Papers of Edwin Thomas Meredith, oversized scrapbooks.

Thirst on the Land

Four cartoons: "How Man Does Improve on Nature!", "Drying Up Wild Life", "The U.S. Public Health Service Takes a Shot At a Mosquito" (or "Hey! Look out where you're shootin'!"), and "Drainage Today--Dust Storms Tomorrow."

Note: The complete article by William Vogt can be found in Series VI-Correspondence under the author's name. 

Cook. Print

Golfer. Print

George Washington Up-to-Date. Original drawing

The Presidential Bee. Original drawing

The Spenders. Original drawing

With All Our Hearts. Print of the cartoon, with the addition of watercolor. Also one print on glossy paper. In flat file drawer 3

Wheeler, Pat. "Herbert Hoover: Iowa Farm Boy and World Humanitarian." Part of the series Teaching with Historic Places. Lesson Plan #34. Washington, D.C.: National Trust for Historic Preservation, 1996

Panels on buildings.

The Roosevelt [Hotel], New York. House Directory. Contains information and an image of a 4' x 6' bronze panel of The Long, Long Trail by Darling on the north wall of the lobby. In flat file drawer 153.

Panels over entrance to University of Iowa Libraries

Original drawings, proofs, copies, photographs, reproductions of images, and articles about the panels. 3 folders. In flat file drawer 153, folders 1 - 3

[Soldier carrying flag among clouds]

"A Thousand Marble Walls and No One to Autograph Them." Seven pencil sketches to accompany an article that appeared in the New York Times on March 10, 1929. Includes two copies of the article

[Ducks]

Poster -- "The Prints of J. N. Darling." Brunier Gallery and Museum. Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, August 28 -- October 7, 1984

Duck and pelican sketches

Plane companions

[Morocco]

[Beach beauty]

[Rams]

The way to Tween Waters

Fishermen I Have Met. 4 small sketches

[Son-in-law wish]

Our first swordfish. On the back of a letter to Mary and George, March 3, 1933

[Building with Spanish architecture]

Folder "Miscellaneous"

Another Wall Street Panic [Not by Darling]

Annual Automobile number of The Register & Leader [signed by unknown cartoonist]

Condensed Ink

Victims of Over Evolution [in Darling's style, signed by Tom Carlisle]

Sketchbooks in Series I-B, Box 2

Russia, Hamburg and England 1931

Russian trip 1931 (3 sketchbooks and some loose drawings)

"The Log of a Winter Cruise" 1927

Sketches, drawings, and miscellaneous in Series I-B, box 2

Airplane stationary for grandson Kip

Beth Eaton Hincks. Gift of Elizabeth Dillman. Ink drawing made on a picnic in 1898, according of Ms. Dillman. However, the date on the drawing looks like '99. This early drawing by Ding is of one of his classmates at Beloit College.

Bicyclist on tightrope in flat file drawer 3

Cardstock strip with cartoon by Darling and a portrait of him, as well as the cartoon and portrait of another cartoonist

Design for a bookplate for Phineas M. Henry

Design for first Federal Duck Stamp

Drawings by Tom Carlisle including "The business of monkeys is monkey business," and "Is this little fellow extinct now?"

Drawings from scrapbook. Includes Prof. Beckman, [Pass. Capt.] and Untza, among other unlabelled drawings

Drawings [of the Kaiser]. Labeled in French. Probably not by Darling

Handprinted letterhead, New York Tribune. Featuring Uncle John Iowa and with the words "From Iowa and proud of it"

Happy Birthday prescription

Iowa Award. Correspondence with Herbert Hoover, including a drawing by Darling of Hoover and Darling receiving the award with the inscription, "Dear Chief, it's the proudest moment of my life --Ding Darling

Iowaism Award. Illustrated with Uncle John Iowa and musical notes with the words "That's where the tall corn grows." Includes negative for this image.

Man locked out of house

Miscellaneous stationary samples

Mock-up for stationery for the Iowa Conservation Commission

"I hear he has a wife and six children at home..." in flat file drawer 3

[Mexico ... War ...] Not by Darling

Pelican on pier

Piping faun in flat file drawer 3

Placecard for Mrs. Darling, Iowa Press and Authors Club

Political caricatures, including Dan Turner, [Woodbury], [Jim Hokiman?], Ol Bill [While?] Convention 1912, Jim Watson of Iowa 1912

Samples of Darling's signature

"There is a smile..." Illustrated poem

Uncaptioned impressions

Uncaptioned impressions, number 1 to 6

Uncle John Iowa. Includes 6 versions.  1. Color. Inscribed, "Ding, his trademark." Signed Jay N. Darling and dated 1903 -- 1950. Accompanied by letter to Mr. Gose, to whose church project he donated the drawing, along with a silk scarf. It is this picture that appears on the first page of this finding aid (2 copies). Includes negative for the image.  2. Proofsheet of a black and white version in which Uncle John Iowa stands in front of a black circular background (2 copies).  3. Photographic reproduction of original black and white drawing, with commentary comparing it to the (also pictured) later version, which includes musical notes and the lyric, "That's where the tall corn grows," as well as other minor changes.  Also a photocopy showing an enlarged version of the top half of the musical note version.  4. Color Photostat of Uncle John Iowa driving a truck pulling wagons full of produce and livestock entitled "Iowa Goes to Town 1937.  In the lower right corner is written, "To young Kippy Koss from Ol' Bah Bah 1937" (2 copies).   5. Proofsheet of a black and white version in which a profile of Uncle John Iowa holds out a handful of apples while standing atop a platform covered in fruit.  He is accompanied by a small pig with a cob of corn in its mouth (4 copies).  6. Brochure for The First Annual Corn Belt Show in which Uncle John Iowa is displayed on the cover holding a bucket of corn in one hald and a handful of apples in the otherwith a pig at his feet.

Untitled sketches (2 reproductions)

"We're off in a cloud of dust"

Watercolors

Folder 1

Watercolors for National Wildlife Week series of stamps

Tortugas/Day shift shrimpers. Matted

A scene in Vermont

[Br...] Hotel and Christiansted in distance

[Still life with chrysanthemums]

[Still life with chrysanthemums]

[Apple blossoms]

[Red rose]

[Red rose]

[Yellow Rose]

[Red rose] 1898

Sapasoin Key, Florida, 1899

How it feels to catch your first salmon

Merry Christmas! Captiva 1944 from Penny & Jay --- [one postcard, one full size version]

Folder 2

[Windmills]

[Palm tree]

The Evening Flight of Pelicans to Kissel Key Point, Florida, 1954

Ponte Vecchio

[Pers and Meau?]

In Venice, 1895

Dawn Patrol of Brown Pelicans

Very Old Olive Tree

From the [?] of the [?]

[Pelicans] Florida

American Egret, Captiva, Florida, 1950

Blue Faced Boobies, Tortugas, 1952

Peru, Vermont