John C. Kemmerer Papers 1961-1981
- US US-IaGG MS/MS 01.74
- Collection
These papers include typed and handwritten manuscript copies of Kemmerer’s poems, stories, and reminiscences, most of which were unpublished.
Kemmerer, John
John C. Kemmerer Papers 1961-1981
These papers include typed and handwritten manuscript copies of Kemmerer’s poems, stories, and reminiscences, most of which were unpublished.
Kemmerer, John
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.
Paul Beall Papers 1928-1948 1928-1932
Personal and college correspondence, newspaper clippings, photographs, programs, school paperwork, and small artifacts (class ring, Maltese cross charm, and watch fob).
Beall, Paul
Sara A. McIlrath Papers 1907-1964
The collection consists of invitations, announcements, notes, programs, college publications, notebooks, an issue of a newspaper, certificates and teaching recommendations.
McIlrath, Sara A.
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
George T. McJimsey Papers 1904-1970's
This collection was gathered by George T. McJimsey, professor of History at Iowa State University, in the process of writing his book Harry Hopkins: Ally of the Poor and Defender of Democracy. Included are articles written by Hopkins, his personal and professional correspondence, WPA files, minutes from the meetings of the American Association of Social Workers, War Munitions Board minutes, Lend- Lease files, diary entries of top government officials, American Red Cross files among others.
The collection contains information relevant not only to researchers studying Hopkins but also Roosevelt, World War II, Lend- Lease, the New Deal, social work, the American Red Cross, Secretary of War Henry Stimson, the FERA, WPA, CWA, American Association of Social Workers, New York BCW, and NYTBA.
The research is drawn from several collections including the Hopkins Papers at the FDR Library in Hyde Park, the National Archives, the George C. Marshall Papers, the Social Work History Archives in Minneapolis, the Harry S. Truman Library, Parks Library of Iowa State University, New York State Library at Albany, the Library of Congress, University of Virginia Library, the Houghton Library of Harvard University among many others.
Additional information on Harry Hopkins can be found in Georgetown University’s special collection.
McJimsey, George T.
Elizabeth Patterson Hawtrey Slide Collection 1955-1959
Consists of approximately 200 color slides taken on the Grinnell College campus between 1955-1959.
Hawtrey, Elizabeth (Betsy) Patterson
Keith Olson Negatives and Prints ca. 1949 ca. 1949
Consists of three boxes of negatives, several candid pictures of college, and an aerial shot of North Campus.
Olson, Keith
This collection includes documents of the Nilsons from 1911 to 1957, encompassing the entire stay of Paul Nilson (and later Harriet Fischer Nilson) within Turkey working as teachers. The first box contains documents from Tarsus, Talas, Diyarbakir, and Mardin, as well as documents relating to Paul and Harriet's retirement from the Mission Board. The second and third boxes contain photographs taken by, or for, the Nilsons during their stay in Turkey. The fourth and fifth boxes focus on biographical information on the Nilsons, including correspondence, documentation, and addresses delivered about their work. The sixth box contains miscellaneous information that focuses on the students, both correspondences to and from, as well as biographical information about them. This box also contains Key Note addresses to the Mission Board, articles, translated papers, and records about the development of teaching and ministry in Turkey. The collection also contains two books: Academies for Anatolia by Frank Andrew Stone; and Stories from the Vineyard by Dorothy Nilson Fyfe.
Nilson, Paul Emmanuel
Wolf Grabendorff Materials 1962-1963
1972 Activism Reunion Materials 1969-2012 1969-1973
Class of 1957 Materials 1953-2003
Materials collected by the class agents relating to the Grinnell College Class of 1957.
Materials from 1952-1956 and subsequent class reunions.
Lorraine Smith Harris Papers 1931-1935
Papers of Lorraine Smith Harris during her time as a student at Grinnell College.
Harris, Lorraine Smith