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Title: Evanel Renfrow at Florida A&M University
Description: Photograph of Evanel Renfrow taken while she was a student at Florida A&M University in Tallahassee, Florida, in the early 1930s.
Date Created: 1930
PID: grinnell:12181

Title: Geoff Peak Interview
Description: This is an oral history interview of Geoff Peak, a prominent teacher in Poweshiek County school systems and graduate of Grinnell College. The interview, conducted by Judy Hunter, recalls many of Geoff's memories from his days in a one-room schoolhouse and as a middle school, high school, and alternative program instructor.
Date Created: 2014
PID: grinnell:23040

Title: Ina Sprague
Description: Black and white photograph of Ina Sprague (1891-1979), lifelong resident of Grinnell. Ina was principal of the Davis School for 28 years until her retirement in 1956.
Date Created: 1940
PID: grinnell:23255

Title: John Pfitsch Interview, American Beliefs and Cultural Values
Description: John Pfitsch was born in Miraj, India, and raised in San Antonio, Fort Davis, and Pflugerville, Texas. During his youth he lived for nine years in the Civilian Conservation Corps camp at Fort Davis where his father, Alfred Pfitsch, Jr., was a medical doctor. During the summers from age 8 to 21, John attended a YMCA Boys Camp in Kerrville, Texas, where he progressed from camper to assistant director of the camp. Interview conducted as part of American Beliefs and Cultural Values, an American Studies class taught by Hanna Griff at Grinnell College in 1993.
Date Created: 1993
PID: grinnell:26712

Title: Letter from Estel Pilgrim to his Mother
Description: Letter to Lillie Carter Pilgrim of Grinnell, Iowa, from her son, Estel Pilgrim dated November 7, 1934, in Ames, Iowa. Estel, a student at Iowa State, talks about homecoming, work, his budget, his grades, and his classes.
Date Created: 1934
PID: grinnell:30044

Title: Rachel M. Newton Traggardh
Description: A photograph of Rachel M. Newton (1839-1906) as a young woman, posing with her high school diploma. She is wearing her graduation dress, which is long and white with lace collar and sleeves. Her hair is pulled back and she is standing next to a chair with a throw pillow, holding her diploma with both hands.
Date Created: 1855
PID: grinnell:23241

Title: Ray Haines at School
Description: One room school class in session probably at Warren Township (Poweshiek County, Iowa) school #3 or #9. Raymond Haines is the student in the plaid shirt third from the back right. Ray Delk is at the blackboard.
Date Created: 1940
PID: grinnell:6187

Title: Three Images of a Class at School No. 2
Description: Three images of a class from School House No. 2 in Poweshiek County, Iowa, lined up outside the school house and swinging on a swing set in August of 1960. Drake Community Library (Grinnell, Iowa) Archives. Miscellaneous photographs. Collection #24, Rural Schools (including snowstorm).
Date Created: 1960
PID: grinnell:18838