- US US-IaGG MS/MS 01.11
- Collection
Consists of treasurer's reports, minutes, clippings, and correspondence of the Elizabeth Earle Magoun Club.
Elizabeth Earle Magoun Club
Consists of treasurer's reports, minutes, clippings, and correspondence of the Elizabeth Earle Magoun Club.
Elizabeth Earle Magoun Club
There are two pieces to the Irving Hart collection in the Grinnell College Archives. One is a letter that Elizabeth Kelsey (Class of 1898) wrote to Hart in April 1898 as he was leaving Grinnell to serve in the Spanish–American War, and the other is an autograph album with signatures of students and faculty from the 1870s when Irving’s mother, Elizabeth Biggar Hart, was a student.
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
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.
Ionian Society Records 1916-1918
One bound volume detailing the proceedings of the Ionian society.
Ellis Society Records 1914-1916
One bound volume of the Ellis Society Alumni proceedings.
Forum Society Records 1906-1919
1 bound volume of secretary's records detailing the society's proceedings
Philologian Society Records 1879-1887
Iowa College Christian Association 1865-1884
Walter Scott Hendrixson Notebooks and Slides 1890-1920
Consists of lantern slides of late 19th and early 20th century chemical aparatus and four notebooks of chemical notes. Professor William C. Oelke suggests that Hendrixson had equipment to copy pictures from books and may have photographed the portraits and laboratory apparatus from published material to use in his class teaching.
Hendrixson, Walter Scott
Grinnell – Chapin Genealogical Material
The collection consists of genealogical charts 1480 0 1919. Correspondence ca. 1898-1908, 32 portraits, some unidentified, copies of cemetery inscriptions, Family Association publications for the Chapin (4 books, 1862, 1908, 1908, 1927) and Alden (1 book, 1916) families, sixty Chapin family deeds and documents from Massachusetts 1674-1851, and a 114-page handwritten notebook by E. F. G. of Stockbridge, 1848, family history of Chapin ancestors Dudley, Woodbridge, Jones, and Eliot.
The papers have detailed information about a few branches of the family, little or no information on other branches. The researcher might consult U.S. Library of Congress, Genealogies in the Library of Congress to identify more complete sources.
Genealogical charts in this collection trace part of the Grinnell family from Pierre Grenelle, born about 1480 in France. A descendant, Matthew, born 1602, became a Protestant and moved to Newport, R.I., in 1630, beginning the American line of the family. Matthew’s son married a granddaughter of John and Priscilla Alden. Other charts trace various branches of the Chapin family from about 1576 to Mary Grinnell’s birth about 1857.
Grinnell, Josiah Bushnell
Leonard F. Parker. Notes for his book, History of Poweshiek County 1906- 1911 1906-1911
The collection contains “historical manuscripts, notes and correspondence of Professor L.F. Parker in regard to material for his History of Poweshiek County. Most materials are handwritten, although a few of Parker’s manuscripts are typed.
Parker, Leonard F.
The collection contains correspondence between Macy and several people from the 1870s to 1919, including a letter from Woodrow Wilson thanking Macy for a gift and for his congratulations on the 1910 New Jersey gubernatorial election. There are a number of miscellaneous family documents, Macy’s diary from 1864-65 in Savannah, Georgia, and sixty letters of tribute at the time of Macy’s death.
Macy, Jesse
William Oelke Papers 1953-1974
Consists of manuscripts of talks, articles, correspondence, photographs, and slides. Most relate to chemistry and chemists at Grinnell College in the early and mid-twentieth century.
Oelke, William C.