John Bley '47 and Roberta Donaldson Bley '49 Papers
- US US-IaGG MS/MS 01.121
- Coleção
Class and class reunion photos, academic papers and grades, newspaper clippings, pamphlets, and correspondance, commencement, scrapbooks
John Bley (Class of 1947)
John Bley '47 and Roberta Donaldson Bley '49 Papers
Class and class reunion photos, academic papers and grades, newspaper clippings, pamphlets, and correspondance, commencement, scrapbooks
John Bley (Class of 1947)
Iowa College Christian Association 1865-1884
Dunham/Grinnell photograph collection 1893-1894
Studio photographs of 19 members of Grinnell College class of 1894 including Josiah Bushnell Grinnell, the namesake of the town founder, and one photograph of Alice Dunham Hannay, class of 1893. Also included are short reminiscences written by Marian Dunham regarding Josiah B. Grinnell, Arthur C. Lyon, Dr. Pearl Somers, and Garrett P. Wyckoff, members of the class of 1894. Photographs are identified as: Benjamin F. Arnold, Charles E. Arnold, Geneva A. Bigelow, Harry L. Brown, John Peet Clyde, William R. Gelston, Josiah B. Grinnell, Charles W. Hackler, Joseph H. Hathaway, George E. Hilsinger, Arthur C. Lyon, Margaret A. Pepoon, William R. Raymond, Paul W. Richards, Pearl E. Somers, Ernest Walker, Garrett P. Wyckoff, Joseph Whyte.
Julius Reed Papers 1831-1890 1845-1869
The bulk of the collection contains correspondence and reports concerning Reed's work of the American Home Missionary Society of the Congregational Church in the 1845-1869. Among the topics addressed are slavery and how the church should regard congregations in slave-holding states, founding of churches in Iowa, church finances, and founding a college in Iowa. This is a rich collection for the study of early Congregationalism in Iowa.
Richard Raridon, Class of 1953 Materials 1953 1953
One freshmen beanie.
Mary Ellen Appleby Sarbaugh Papers 1985-1995
Mary Ellen Appleby Sarbaugh, ’42, donated a collection of personal papers, including family memoirs and reminiscences, to the Archives in 1995. The papers were most likely written between 1985-95.
Sarbaugh, Mary Ellen Appleby
Edward B. Scheve music compositions 1906-1924
Consists of manuscripts and published musical compositions.
Scheve, Edward B.
Ivan Sheets Postcard Collection 1900-2000 early 20th century
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.
Ida Weaver Steinmetz Papers 1912-1914
Consists of photographs, programs, and other materials from the Girls Glee Club trip in 1912 and from the Class of 1914 reunion.
Steinmetz, Ida Weaver
Consists of 1973 faculty Christmas letter sent by the Alumni Office and 27 responses received by Liberman. Most comment on the May 1970 closing of the college.
Liberman, M. M.
Lorraine Smith Harris Papers 1931-1935
Papers of Lorraine Smith Harris during her time as a student at Grinnell College.
Harris, Lorraine Smith
John Kleinschmidt Collection of Grinnell Local History
Professor Kleinschmidt amassed countless photocopies, copies of microfilm and Sanborn maps, copies of newspaper articles, correspondence, and black and white photographs of local buildings (residences, commercial, college). In the 1990s, Professor Kleinschmidt expressed his interest in having his collection deposited with the Grinnell College Archives. Members of the Grinnell Historic Preservation Commission (Lisa Adkins, Don Irving, Cheryl Neubert), conducted interviews with him to access much of his accumulated knowledge about this history of the town, the occupants and the buildings.
Kleinschmidt, John
Joseph F. "Joe" Wall Papers 1950-1988
Consists of holograph, typescript, and proofs of Joseph Wall's biography, Andrew Carnegie (1970), holograph and typescript of Henry Watterson: Reconstructed Rebel (1956), and of the page proof of Interpreting Twentieth-Century America (1973). A small part of the collection includes some correspondence connected with Andrew Carnegie. Also included is a typescript of the Grinnell College Faculty Handbook (1969) and talks and memos concerning the Abler-Woodworth controversy of 1974.
Wall, Joseph Frazier (Class of 1941)
Wolf Grabendorff Materials 1962-1963