History of Grinnell College and town
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For Faculty Meeting Minutes, see RG-F Series 1.
History of Grinnell College and town
For Faculty Meeting Minutes, see RG-F Series 1.
History and descriptions of grounds and buildings
For Faculty Meeting Minutes, see RG-F Series 1.
Box 1:
Secretary's minutes, 4 books: 1882-1906, 1906-1928, 1928-1944 (includes copy of the club constitution), and 1944-1953
Folder 1: Centennial Sketch, presented April 19, 1982 script, pictures, list of topics, 1882-1928, and napkin from 68th anniversary tea
Folder 2: Study topics and book titles, 1882
Box 2:
Secretary's minutes, 3 books: 1955-1967 (includes copy of club constitution), 1967-1979, 1979-1991 (includes copy of 1988 Proposed revision of Constitution and 1976 Constitution).
Treasurer's books, 2 books: 1926-1956 (savings account) and 1292-1964
Yearbooks, 76 of the possible 100:
1889
1891-1917
1919
1925-1927
1932-1933
1935
1939
1941-1962
1964-1968 (in secretary's book)
1971-1977 (in secretary's book)
Box 3:
Folder 1: Ancient records, 1882-1931 (history of the club, 13 typed leaves)
Folder 2: Constitution and By Laws, 1949 and 1962
Folder 3: 22 papers presented by members from 1925-1954:
Miss French, nee Octave Thanet, 1925
Iowa Legislative Department, 1926
Iowa Board of Control, 1926
The LaTours and Acadia, 1927
The Last of the Titans-Schunabb-Heink, 1932 (used in the Centennial program)
March of Events, 1933
Dickens, David Coperfield, 1934
Guy De Maupassant, 1935
James Hilton, Random Harvest, 1941
Eleanor Dick, the Timeless Land, 1942
Quentin Reynolds, Dress Rehearsal, 1944
Channing Pollock, Harvest of My Years, 1944
Ray Stannard Baker, American Chronicle, 1946
George F. Willison, Saints and Sinners, 1946
Gilbert Chesterton, Man Who Was Thursday (no date)
South Africa (no date or source)
William Harlan Hale, Horace Greeley, Voice of the People, 1951
Lucy Robins Lang, Tomorrow is Beautiful, 1950
Dixon Wector, Sam Clemons of Hannibal, 1954
Cecil Woodham-Smith, Florence Nightengale, 1952
Emily Kimbrough, Forty Plus and Fancy Free, 1954
Folder 4: loose papers form 1931 scrapbook (includes newspaper clippings 1931-1938)
Scrapbook. 1931. Project for Iowa Federation of Women's Clubs. [Clippings and other papers removed from the scrapbook are filed in Box 3, folder 4]
Ernst, Elizabeth
Historic Iowa Postcards 20th century
Consists of postcards of Iowa towns, events, people, and scenery.
Hill Family Papers and Publications
The collection consists primarily of printed materials, and a few letters of correspondence. Gershom Hyde or James Langdon Hill authored the bulk of the collection. Most of their works are in the form of pamphlets, small books, and occasionally typed manuscripts.
Hill, Sarah Harriman
Hilary Mertaugh. Notes for Beginner's Field Guide to Grinnell and Its Environs. 2001-2002
Consists of Mertaugh’s research notes for her pamphlet, Beginner's Field Guide to Grinnell and Its Environs.
Mertaugh, Hilary
Henry S. Conard Papers 1930-2000
The collection contains some of Conard's correspondence and newspaper clippings of articles about him. There are also typed manuscripts of some of his articles, as well as several journals to which he contributed articles.
Conard, Henry S.
Henry Mol (class of 1950) Cowles Hall Materials
Materials are related to Cowles Hall, owned by Henry R. Mol, class of 1950.
Mol, Henry R.
Henry G. Little Family Scrapbooks 1874-1900
Consists of three record books from the Henry G. Little family of Grinnell. Little was mayor of the town in the last decades of the nineteenth century.
Henry G. Little
Helena Percas de Ponseti Papers (1925-2011), 1960-2010
This collection is composed of correspondence, materials from organizations and conferences, academic writings and notes, recommendations, photographs, greeting cards, gradebooks, address books, degrees, and awards.
Helena Percas de Ponseti
Harry Waldo Norris Papers 1920-1931
These papers are notes, reminiscences, and correspondence of Norris regarding science clubs, science teachers, and presidents of Grinnell College.
Norris, Harry Waldo
Letter written by Harry S. Truman, (President of the United States, 1945-1953), regarding a forthcoming visit to Grinnell College in October 1963.
Truman, Harry S.
This collection includes correspondence from the 1940s, memoirs of Grinnell College in the 1880s, class letters and other related materials.
Harry Downer
Harriet Underwood Hamlin Collection of John H. T. Main Material 1917-1931
In this file dated 1917-1931 are newspaper clippings and photographs in a scrapbook about President Main, a short biography of Harriet Hamlin, and the bulk of the collection consists of personal letters between Hamlin and Main.
Hamlin, Harriet
H. George Apostle Papers 1942-1991
The collection consists of typed manuscripts of Apostle’s translations and commentaries of Aristotle, Ph.D. thesis, and at talk, 1942-1978. In addition to the typed versions of the Nicomachean Ethics, there are also a holograph version and two sets of page proofs. Not included are manuscripts of Aristotle’s Philosophy of Mathematics (1952) or Mr. Apostle's two mathematics texts (1954 and 1960).
Apostle, Hippocrates George