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Barns Around Iowa: A Sampling of Iowa's Round Barns
Barns Around Iowa A Sampling of Iowa's Round Barns Author:Luella Hazeltine, Deb Schense With approximately 1,000 of Iowas historic barns disappearing annually, this new title features over 100 of the round and multi-sided agricultural barns that existed during the last fifteen years. Even a few barns in the book have either burned or collapsed since Luella Hazeltine snapped their portraits. More than 200,000 barns once dotted the... more » Iowa landscape. Less than 60,000 structures remain in Iowa. As we lose our barns, we lose a part of our Iowa heritage.
This 128-page book is a unique volume showing in color, Iowa agricultural heritage. Photographer Luella Hazeltine traveled the country roads of Iowa for over a decade in search of Iowas round jewels. The out-of-print book, Without Right Angles: The Round Barns of Iowa, by Lowell J. Soike of the State Historical Society of Iowa served as the guide to Luella Hazeltines ten-plus years documentary project. Her original photographic work will be preserved in the growing collection of barn photography at the State Historical Society of Iowa.« less