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Lowery Family Scrapbooks
Date(s)
- Circa 1905-1925 (Creation)
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Four scrapbooks from members of the Lowrey family. Several of the sisters of the family all attended Grinnell College, and the family ran the Lowrey Club, a place for male students to eat prior to the building of the men's dormitories.
Lois Lowrey Corwin, Class of 1909
Sarah Lowrey, Class of 1915
Jean Lowrey Palmer, Class of 1919
Margaret Lowrey Welsh, Class of 1921
Gould Lowrey Barnes, Class of 1923
Very few photographs are identified.
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Languages of the material
- English
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Custodial history
The scrapbooks were compiled and belonged to the members of the Lowrey family, who moved from Vinton, Iowa, to Grinnell, Iowa in the early 1900s. The scrapbooks of photos were passed down to Phil and Dorothy Palmer. Phil is the daughter of Jean Lowrey Palmer '19; his wife Dorothy is a member of the class of 1961.
Immediate source of acquisition
The scrapbooks were donated to Special Collections and Archives in the summer of 2022 by Phil and Dorothy Palmer '61.