Friday, June 15, 2007

Mildred (Augustine) Wirt BensonUniversity of Iowa Marks "Hills" Debut with Digital Archive: The University of Iowa Libraries is marking the June 15 opening of "Nancy Drew: The Mystery in Hollywood Hills" by gathering the scrapbooks, correspondence, rare photographs and early writings of Mildred Wirt Benson in a super digitized collection. Benson, a UI Distinguished Alumna seen at left in the 1926 UI Hawkeye as the hot young Mildred Augustine, donated her personal papers to the Iowa Women's Archives in 1992 and subsequent years until her death in 2002. These materials, along with artifacts from the Special Collections Department and the University Archives, form the bulk of the online collection, created by the Digital Library Services department for the Iowa Digital Library web site. View the collection now ...