Special Collections Department
403 Parks Library
Iowa State University
Ames, IA 50011-2140

MS 199
Seed Company Sign Collection, undated


Descriptive summary

creator:

 

title:

Seed Company Sign Collection

dates:

undated

extent:

8.35 linear feet (5 oversize boxes and 1 map case folder)

collection number:

MS 199

repository:

Special Collections Department, Iowa State University.

 

Administrative information

access:

Open for research

publication rights:

Consult Head, Special Collections Department

preferred citation:

Seed Company Sign Collection, MS 199, Special Collections Department, Iowa State University Library.

 

Historical note

The majority of these seed company signs were given to the Special Collections Department by the Iowa Crop Improvement Association; additional signs were subsequently received from other donors. The signs were common sights along rural roads throughout the Corn Belt.

 

Container list

 

Box

Title

1

Ace Hybrid

1

Ames Seed Farms

1

Applegate's (Ellsworth, Iowa)

1

Arndorfer's 939

1

Arnold Hybrids, Henry H. Arnold (Webster City, Iowa)

1

Beeghly Hybrid

1

Behan & Helfert Hybrids (Sabula, Iowa)

1

Behrends Seed Farms (Ackley, Iowa) ("Iowa Certified Behrends Seed Farms, Ackley")

1

Bergstrom Hybrids (Ogden, Iowa)

1

Birkeland (Roland, Iowa) ("From Birkeland of Roland, Iowa")

1

Black's

1

Breda Corn Co. Hybrids

1

Carlson's Hybrids

1

Certi-Faction Hybrids (Ames/Roland, Iowa)

1

Certified Indiana Hybrid

1

Clarke's (Conrad, Iowa)

1

Clyde Thompson's Quality Hybrids

1

Coppock's Hybrids

1

Cornelius Hybrids (Bellevue, Iowa)

1

Crow's

1

Dall's Iowa Hybrid

1

Dalton's

1

De Kalb

1

Dockendorff's Superior Hybrid

1

Dows F.F.A. Hybrids

2

Earl May's Maygold Hybrid

2

Eggerth

2

Federal

2

Feldcorn Hybrid (Breda, Iowa)

2

Funk's "G"

2

Gannon & Son ("Iowa 939, Gannon & Son, Valeria, Iowa")

2

Grinnellian ("A Grand Hybrid, New Grinnellian Hybrid")

2

Gruhn's Hybrid

2

Heath Hybrids

2

Heim's

2

Henry Field's Mule Hybrid

2

Henry Maach & Son

2

Hi-Cal Hybrid, produced by Lueck (Denison, Iowa)

2

Holden's Ioway Super-Corn

2

Holloway's

2

Hollrah's Hardy Hybrids (Charter Oak, Iowa)

2

Hubbard Seed Association, Iowa Certified

2

Hubbard Seed Association

2

Hudson's Hybrids (Knoxville, Iowa)

2

Huey's

2

Humphrey's

2

Iowa Certified (4 identical signs)

2

Iowa Certified: Photographs of seed company sign, original sign is not in this collection ("Iowa Certified, Known Pedigrees, Known Performance, John Doe, Hybridville") (4- 5x7" color photographs)

2

Iowa Missouri

2

Iowa State Certified Hybrid Corn Co. (Elkhart, Iowa)

2

Irelan and Son (Cincinnati, Ohio) ("Iowa Certified, Irelan & Son, Cincinnati")

2

Isenhart's

2

Jacobsen Hybrid

2

Jacques Proven Hybrid

2

Joslin Hybrid

3

Kaufman's Hybrid

3

Kelley's Hybrids

C406 D12

Kiley Powers Seed Farm ("Plant Certified Seed; Iowa Crop Improvement Association; Kiley Powers Seed Farm, Duncombe, Iowa") (housed in map case)

3

Kinsel

3

Knudsen

3

Koesters

3

Krizer Hybrid Seed Corn

3

Lange's Hybrid ("For Better Results Grow Lange's Hybrid")

3

Lynk Brothers and Baird

3

Matzinger Hybrids

3

McAllisters

3

McCurdy's

3

McLaughlin's Hybrids (Marathon, Iowa)

3

McNeilly's Hybrid

3

Meyer's Hybrid Corn (Winterset, Iowa) ("Plant Meyer's Hybrid Corn, Winterset, Ia.")

3

Missouri King (Fulton, Missouri)

3

Moews Lowe

3

Morgan Hybrid (Galva, Illinois)

3

Mullins

3

Naeve's Ace High Hybrid

3

Narland's (Radcliffe, Iowa)

3

National

3

Nelson's 939 (2 signs, not identical)

4

Ockenfels Hybrids ("Plant Ockenfels Hybrids, 'It Pays'; The Harvest Tells 'It's Ockenfels'")

4

O. W. Johnson & Son (Le Grand, Iowa)

4

Overland

4

Parcaut's

4

Peck's Hybrids ("It's Peck's Hybrids")

4

Perkins Hybrids, Crown O'Gold (Sioux City, Iowa)

4

Peters Hybrid

C406 D12

Pioneer ("It's Pioneer") (housed in map case)

4

Pfister Hybrids

4

Plumb's ("It's Plumb's")

4

Reid Yellow Dent Hybrids

4

Renk's

4

Schroeder Hybrids (LeMars, Iowa)

C406 D12

Sheka Adapted Hybrids (housed in map case)

4

Shrock's ("Seed from Shrock's")

4

Standard's Multi-Perfected Hybrids ("Standard's Multi-Perfected Hybrids Are Best")

4

Tekseed

4

Thompson Hybrid Corn (Belmond, Iowa)

4

Thurston's Hybrids

4

Traver ("Traver, IA. 939")

4

Tremmel, J.P. ("Hybrid No. 1538 grown and sold by J. P. Tremmel, Sigourney, Iowa")

4

Turner Hybrids

5

Uken's

5

United Hybrid

5

Vandy's

5

Veren Hybrids (State Center, Iowa)

5

Verne Hermann (Manchester, Iowa)

5

Vinton Hybrid Corn Company (Vinton, Iowa)

5

Wagner's Hybrid

5

Waxy-Maize

5

Webster Co. Hybrid 432

5

Weseman Certified Hybrids

5

Yager's

5

Zeman Brothers Hybrid (Tama, Iowa)