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Title: Woman with Red Hat at the 1949 Grinnell Day Celebration
Description: Woman wearing a red hat standing outside the Louis Sullivan Jewel Box Bank during the 1949 Grinnell Day celebration in Grinnell, Iowa. Drake Community Library (Grinnell, Iowa) Archives. Chamber of Commerce Slides, p.5, slide 6.
Date Created: 1949
PID: grinnell:19285

Title: Women and Academia Seminar
Description: Photo of (from left) Carolynn Reid Wallace (American Studies and English), Suzanne M. Heidner (resident adviser), Jean R. King (physical education) and Leigh Kagan (doctoral candidate in Chinese history at Harvard U. and wife of Grinnell faculty member)
Date Created: 1972
PID: grinnell:5827

Title: Women and girl, Belle Plaine, Iowa
Description: Portrait of two women (one woman's name is Alice and other woman's name is Mary) and a girl standing behind a fence and in front of a house. 1907 postmark.
Date Created: 1907
PID: grinnell:14188

Title: Women of the Revolution
Description: The story of the Haitian Revolution is steered by powerful characters such as Toussaint L'Ouverture, Henri Christophe, and Jean-Jacques Dessalines, military commanders and monarchs who facilitated the Haitian independence movement during the French Revolution. However, these men were not the only people involved in the dramatic uprising. Haitian women, too, played a large role in the rebellion, and this block honors the female freedom fighters who often go unnoticed in modern tellings of the story. In the lower center of the block the artist has placed a Haitian ten gourd banknote, featuring sergeant and lieutenant Sanité Bélair who fought bravely under the command of Toussaint LOuverture. To her left is a depiction of Marie-Jeanne Lamartiniére, a Haitian soldier who fought in male uniform and is said to have greatly boosted the spirits of her male counterparts with her invigorating bravery. On the right hand side of the block we see an image of Cécile Fatiman, a mambo (Vodou priestess) said to have participated in the Vodou ritual at Bwa Kayiman, a ceremony during which the first slave insurrection was planned. Although these women, and others like them, have not made it into many history books, this block honors the sacrifices they made for the freedom of their people and country.
Date Created: 2017
PID: grinnell:25518