The Executive Council was established in 1873, then consisting of the four statewide elected officials; the governor, auditor, secretary of state, and treasurer, or any three of them. Their original assigned duties included: purchasing furniture, utilities and all necessary supplies for state offices, acting as both the State Board of Canvassers and the State Board of Equalization, and managing the states real estate. The following is a partial list of the records in our holdings from the Executive Council. A complete list of series is available at the Research Center in Des Moines.
Some or all of these records are available to search in the Iowa History Collections Catalog
General
Series Title | Date Span |
|---|---|
Applications for Authority to Issue Stock for Property | 1907-1978 |
Claims and Vouchers | 1885-1918 |
Correspondence, General Files | 1952-1961 |
Correspondence, Lands, Islands, and Lake Beds | 1886-1918 |
Correspondence, Letter Books | 1884-1899 |
Correspondence, Subject Files | 1968-1979 |
Executive Council Record (Minutes) | 1873-1963 |
Minutes | 1889-1907, 1914, 1917, 1935-2008 |
Minutes, Indexes: Subjects and Departments | 1945-1990 |
Minutes, Requests and Authorizations | 1925-1935 |
Paper Stock Account, Printer and Binder | 1885-1920 |
Resolutions of Executive Council Authorizing Corporations to Issue Stock for Property | 1947-1958 |
Assessments
Series Title | Date Span |
|---|---|
Assessment Record by Executive Council | 1900-1929 |
Electric Transmission Lines - Certificates and Reports | 1915-1928 |
Equipment Car Companies, Lists and Reports | 1906-1928 |
Express Companies - Certificates | 1900-1922 |
Express Companies - Reports | 1899-1913 |
Land, Abstracts and Comparative Value Statements | 1901-1915 |
Land, Returns of Sales and Assessed Values | 1901-1909, 1913 |
Light, Heat, and Power Companies, Reports and Schedules | 1914-1920 |
Railroad Companies, Abstracts of Reports | 1894-1916 |
Railroad Companies, Certificates | 1900-1921 |
Railroad Companies, Lands | 1901 |
Railroad Companies, Lists of Assessment and Taxing Districts | 1900 and No Dates |
Railroad Companies, Miscellaneous (Affidavits and Arguments, Prospects and Requests) | 1886-1916 |
Sleeping Cars, Reports and Statements | 1911-1916 |
Telegraph and Telephone Companies, Abstracts of Reports and Statements | 1904-1910 |
Telegraph and Telephone Companies, Certificates and Reports | 1899-1928 |
Capitol Grounds Extension
| Title | Date Span |
|---|---|
Series Title | Date Span |
Abstracts of Title | 1917-1975 |
Bids, Bonds, Contracts, and Specifications | 1911-1918 |
Blue Prints, Plans, and Specifications | 1918-1921 |
Contracts and Correspondence | 1918-1921 |
Correspondence | 1914-1919 |
Journals | 1904-1918 |
Ledgers | 1913-1918 |
Lists: Employees, Tools, Sales, Tenants, etc. | 1914 |
Reports | ca. 1917-1983 |
Time Books | 1914-1917 |
Census Records
Series Title | Date Span |
|---|---|
State Census, Population | 1915 |
State Census, Population | 1925 |
Minutes of the Census Board | 1851-1873 |
Elections
Series Title | Date Span |
|---|---|
Election Returns, Abstracts | 1848-1873, ca. 1910 - 1920 |
Election Returns, Board of Canvassers’ Abstracts of Votes | 1898-1920 |
Minutes of the Proceedings of the State Board of Canvassers and Soldiers Vote During the Civil War | 1848-1873 |
Minutes of the Executive Council as State Board of Canvassers | 1920 |
Miscellaneous
Series Title | Date Span |
|---|---|
Appraisal Documentation | 1963-1973 |
Appropriations Ledgers | 1900-1918 |
Attorney General Opinions | 1882-1910 |
Bids, Bonds, Contracts, and Specifications | 1896-1952 |
Capitol Commission, Specifications | 1903, 1966 |
Lake Bed Abstract Record | 1904-1912 |
Monthly Report of Railroad Accidents within the State | 1921 |
Secretary of State, Corporations, Survey of Oil Companies, Authorization to Issue Additional Stock | 1911-1929 |
School Tax and Property Description Ledgers | 1953-1964 |
School Tax Claims | 1950-1962 |