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Ivan Sheets Postcard Collection 1900-2000 early 20th century

  • US US-IaGG MS/MS 01.107
  • Collection

The Ivan Sheets collection contains approximately 400 post cards of towns primarily in Poweshiek County, Iowa.  The are 334 post cards of Grinnell and 74 post cards of surrounding towns including Brooklyn, Malcom, Montezuma, Newton, and Oskaloosa.

Sheets, Ivan W.

Evelyn Gardner Papers 1938-1977

  • US US-IaGG MS/MS 01.109
  • Collection

This collection contains correspondence, clippings, materials from conferences and organizations, photographs, a family tree, and materials about her retirement and memorial.

Gardner, Evelyn

H.W. Parker Letter 1888

  • US US-IaGG MS/MS 01.112
  • Collection

One letter from H.W. Parker, chair of the natural history department of Iowa College, to Mr. Aldrich regarding the release of Parker's newest book, The Spirit of Beauty.

Parker, Henry W.

Ralph Luebben Papers 1950-1999

  • US US-IaGG MS/MS 01.114
  • Collection

This collection contains numerous articles and papers written by Luebben throughout his career, in addition to materials for the courses he taught at Grinnell, personal correspondence, clippings, photos, and writings by colleagues.

Luebben, Ralph A.

Chicago National League Ball Club Stock Certificates 1981-1981 1981

  • US US-IaGG MS/MS 01.122
  • Collection

Two stock certificates (#3404 and #3405) issued to the Trustees of Iowa College. Dated August 21, 1981. Each certificate is worth 12 shares. Note with stock certificates indicates that a third certificate (#3503) is framed and on display in the Cubs Room of the PEC (Physical Education Complex). The plan is to display the framed certificate in the new Athletic Facility when it is completed in 2010. Destroyed in 2010.
Processed by Cheryl Neubert, February 2008.

Earl Blair Drawing Collection 2011 2011

  • US US-IaGG MS/MS 01.134
  • Collection

Eighteen original ink drawings and one photocopy, featuring buildings including Goodnow and Carnegie Hall.

Agassiz Association

  • US US-IaGG MS/MS 01.135
  • Collection

Contains notes and observations, minutes, correspondence, library records, and two publications - Grinnell Cabinet and Agassiz Notes - from the Grinnell Chapter.

Bill Ingram Collection of Early Modern French Manuscript Business Documents 1550-1652

  • US US-IaGG MS/MS 01.136
  • Collection

Folder 1 contains two manuscript documents written in French in the 16th century.  One of the documents is from Jehan Hurault, the royal counselor and master of requests, regarding a dispute on the right to collect taxes on cloth sold in bulk and the "eighth" on wine sold retail in taverns in one section of the city of Paris.  The other has not been translated or transcribed.

Curtis Bradford Transcriptions of W. B. Yeats unpublished prose 1954-1960

  • US US-IaGG MS/MS01.137
  • Collection

In 1954 and again in 1960, Curtis Bradford was able to transcribe previously unpublished manuscripts by W. B. Yeats that remained in the home of Yeats' widow, George. This collection contains the transcriptions Bradford made from Yeats' handwritten and typescript manuscripts. Bradford published a recollection of his work with the manuscripts in the  Sewanee Review 77 (1969) 385-404.

A description of this manuscript collection was published by James Lovic Allen and M. M. Lberman, "Transcriptions of Yeats's Unpublished prose in the Bradford papers at Grinnell College." Serif: Quarterly of Kent State University Libraries, 10.1 (1973): 13-27.

Bradford, Curtis Baker

Bruce Whiteman Collection 1980-1995

  • US US-IaGG MS/MS 01.140
  • Collection

Books of poetry and short essays by Bruce Whiteman published between 1980 and 1995. Whiteman was an English department lecturer at Grinnell College.

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