- US US-IaGG MS/MS 01.179
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Papers detailing the personal and family history of Foster C. Rinefort Jr., Grinnell College class of 1956. Emphasis on athletics.
Foster C. Rinefort Jr.
Papers detailing the personal and family history of Foster C. Rinefort Jr., Grinnell College class of 1956. Emphasis on athletics.
Foster C. Rinefort Jr.
Truman Douglass. Builders of a Commonwealth 1911
In preparing his book, Pilgrims of Iowa, published in 1911, Truman Douglass compiled extensive biographical information about Congregational ministers in Iowa up to 1900. He had hoped to publish this material in additional volumes to his book, but left only a typed manuscript. The preface in volume I suggests further sources for information about some of the ministers.
Douglass, Truman O.
Consists of treasurer's reports, minutes, clippings, and correspondence of the Elizabeth Earle Magoun Club.
Elizabeth Earle Magoun Club
Mary Gae Wyly Papers on Grinnell Women Faculty 1971-1972
Mary Gae Wyly graduated from Grinnell College in 1962 and served as a librarian from 1968 to 1976. This collection contains documents from her desk files, including one on the hiring of blacks and women, and a survey of women on campus for the improvement of Grinnell.
Wyly, Mary Gae
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
Lillian Mattison Papers 1914-1915
Consists primariy of letters written by Lillian Mattison to her family during her senior year at Grinnell College, alumni materials, and a photograph album.
Mattison, Lillian
Congregational Church Women United, Grinnell Council Public Relations Notebook 1956-1984
The notebook contains clippings, membership records, legal information, and programming.
This collection includes correspondence from the 1940s, memoirs of Grinnell College in the 1880s, class letters and other related materials.
Harry Downer
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
William Salter Papers 1843-1907
The collection contains letters written to Salter and notes written by Salter. The letters include both personal correspondence and that relating to his affairs: church business, business of Iowa College, Salter’s research into the history of the Dodge family, and a variety of other concerns. One letter of note is from James S. Graham in 1884 who recounts his experience watching President Lincoln while he reviewed the 68th Illinois Infantry Volunteers. Also included is a Saloon Passengers’ List and Track Card from an 1881 voyage on the S.S. Bolivia.
Salter, William
Selden Lincoln Whitcomb papers 1883-1906
Seldon Whitcomb spent most of his life in Grinnell, IA. He was born here, graduated from Iowa College in 1887, and returned to teach English from 1895-1905. In this collection are two personal journals, a poetry manuscript, and a notebook of nature observations with a few specimens pressed between the pages.
Selden Lincoln Whitcomb (Class of 1887)
Louis Hartson Memoirs 1904-1919
Louis Hartson received his bachelor’s degree from Iowa College in 1908 and returned to teach psychology from 1911-23. Between the years 1973 and 1976, he recorded his memories of those years and of the following 19 years at Oberlin College. These memoirs as well as several personal letters are held in this collection.
Louis Hartson
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.
Horace A. Wolcott Correspondence 1855-1865 ca. 1860
The collection consists of photocopies of letters and business papers of Horace Alanson Wolcott. Wolcott lived briefly in Grinnell about 1856 then moved to Boulder probably in the early or mid 1860s, and corresponded with people in Grinnell. Papers selected for photocopying are those relating to his Grinnell connections. Correspondents include: Marshall Bliss of Bliss Crosby Mill, Grinnell; S. H. Bliss; Julia Grinnell; Lucy Bixby (mother of Louisa Wolcott); Samuel Cooper; S. Bixby
Wolcott, Henry A.
Charlotte Knowles Vandenburgh Papers
The collection consists of a newspaper clipping, concert notice, daybook, 77 photographs and negatives of the Womens' Glee Club trip to California in 1912. The photos are not labeled.