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Seminary Building, State Industrial School for Girls, Mitchellville, Iowa

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The original seminary was founded by the city's founder, Thomas Mitchell, in 1872. It fell on hard times and was bought by the state of Iowa who turned it into a reformatory school for girls. In the early 1980's it was turned into the Iowa Correctional Institute for Women. 1908 postmark.
creator Sailboat
Alternative TitleGrinnell High School
Supporting Host Grinnell College Libraries Special Collections
Index Date 1908
Publisher King, W.S. (St. Paul, Minn.)
Type of Resource still image
Genre Postcards
reproduction info Scanned with HP Scanjet 4670 at 600 ppi. Archival master image available in tiff format.
Date Issued 1905-1908
Topic Polk County (Iowa)
Topic Mitchellville (Iowa)
Topic Detention facilities
Topic Reformatories
Topic Children
Related Item Iowa Historical Postcard Collection (IHPC)
Identifier (local) ihpc_mitcheb0002
Identifier (local) grinnell:14341
Access Condition Grinnell College Libraries does not own the copyright in these images and therefore cannot give or deny permission to publish or distribute any of them. It is the researcher's responsibility to determine and satisfy copyright or other use restrictions when publishing or distributing material from this collection. Any materials used must carry a credit line: Historic Iowa Postcard Collection, Special Collections and Archives, Grinnell College Libraries.
Identifier (hdl) http://hdl.handle.net/11084/14341
Title Seminary Building, State Industrial School for Girls, Mitchellville, Iowa
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