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Title: Rudolph Renfrow
Description: Rudolph Renfrow in the early 1920s outside his home at 411 First Avenue in Grinnell. This picture was taken just before he left Grinnell to attend the Hampton Institute in Hampton, Virginia.
Date Created: 1920
PID: grinnell:12200

Title: Rural School
Description: View of a rural school, possibly in Poweshiek County, Iowa. School children are posing in the windows. A bell tower with a U.S. flag is flying. The flag looks to be a 45 star flag based on the configuration of the stars.
Date Created: 1900
PID: grinnell:11926

Title: Second Grade, Parker School, Grinnell, Iowa circa 1901
Description: Black and white photograph on cardboard of Bessie Ricker (1879 - 1977) and her class of 2nd grade schoolchildren c. 1901 in front of Parker School in Grinnell, Iowa. Bessie Ricker married Edwin S. Parish in 1903 and was a member of the Grinnell United Methodist Church, teaching Sunday school for many years. The children in the picture are unidentified.
Date Created: 1901
PID: grinnell:23283

Title: Shane Cook in Dorm Room
Description: Shane Bellis Cook in her Haines Hall dorm room at Grinnell College in 1953. From Joanne M. Bunge's Grinnell College student scrapbook, 1952-1956.
Date Created: 1953
PID: grinnell:12941

Title: Spring Silly Season
Description: View of college students marching along the street in Grinnell, Iowa, in support of the new liquor store. Attached newspaper clipping reads: Officially arriving in Grinnell Friday was spring silly season, which is usually most evident on the college campus. Such was the case here Friday afternoon when a group of about 100 Grinnell College students marched from the campus to the new liquor store with flags waving, car horn honking and drums beating a steady rhythm. The signs read "Eat, Drink And Be Merry For Tomorrow It May Close!!" and "Prohibition Repealed in Grinnell."
Date Created: 1960
PID: grinnell:11930

Title: Students on the Steps of Herrick Chapel
Description: Grinnell College students gathered at Herrick Chapel on the Grinnell College campus in Grinnell, Iowa. Seated from left to right: Shafer Eugene Thompson, Elma Johnston Brooks, Frank Vigus, Marilyn Moyer King. John Berg standing in the foreground to the right. Unidentified student at the door to the chapel. From Joanne M. Bunge's Grinnell College student scrapbook, 1952-1956.
Date Created: 1954
PID: grinnell:12953

Title: Swimming in the Old College Pool
Description: Female swimmers parading around the college pool at Grinnell College, ca. 1950-1954.
Date Created: 1950
PID: grinnell:5679

Title: Grinnell Players Present The Braggart Warrior, Braggart Warrior
Description: Program for the play, The Braggart Warrior, staged by James Conover, and performed October 27 and 28, 1955, in ARH Auditorium, Grinnell College, Grinnell, Iowa, starring James Stewart, Gordon Packard, David Steiner, Ron Henry and others.
Date Created: 1955
PID: grinnell:5651

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

Title: Velma Hiser Interview, Voices from the Past
Description: Velma Bissell Hiser, born July 10, 1904, graduated from Dexter (Iowa) High School, attended Grinnell College and graduated from Northwestern University. She received her M.S. degree from the University of Iowa. She taught at Grinnell College from 1937 until her retirement. For a time, she and her husband managed the Monroe Hotel. Breeding and showing of Boxer dogs was a major interest of hers.
Date Created: 1992
PID: grinnell:23316