William Frank Ringle was an anthropologist and instructor at the University of Illinois and at Iowa State University. The collection (PCL MS 033) centers on Ringle's personal interest and professional research into the beat generation of the late 1950s to early 1960s; the counterculture of the…
The A.V. Shirk Collection consists of approximately 3.5 linear feet of manuscript materials. The collection was donated to the Browne Popular Culture Library by A.V. Shirk in 1988 and 1989. This collection is largely unprocessed, but may be accessed by contacting the BPCL reference email. The…