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Title
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Vel-Hi Kennels Float in 1949 Grinnell Day Parade
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Description
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The Vel-Hi Kennels parade float in the 1949 Grinnell Day Parade in Grinnell Iowa. Vel-Hi Kennels bred and showed boxers and two of their dogs can be seen on the float along with two people, probably Velma Hiser and her husband George Hiser, the owners of the kennels. Drake Community Library (Grinnell, Iowa) Archives. Chamber of Commerce Slides, p.7, slide 13.
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Date Created
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1949
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PID
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grinnell:19298
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Title
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Velma Hiser Interview, Voices from the Past
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Description
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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.
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Date Created
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1992
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PID
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grinnell:23316
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Title
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Veneer
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Description
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At the center of this block is a photograph of Haitian slaves harvesting sugar cane before the revolution. Look closely at the image and focus on the people’s faces. How is this photograph different from other images of plantation slavery? Look closer and you may realize that the photograph is placed on top of another image, covering everything but the outer edges. The pictures we see and the stories we tell may not reveal the entire truth, and some narratives of the past mask another’s reality. Perhaps history should not be viewed as a timeline, with one image placed next to another, but should look more like an overused scrapbook; you must peel one image away to reveal another.
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Date Created
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2017
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PID
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grinnell:25497
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Title
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Venetian Ball Room, Hotel Savery, Des Moines, Iowa, Savery Hotel, Savery III, Renaissance Des Moines Savery Hotel
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Description
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Looking at the Venetian Ball Room located on the second floor of the Savery Hotel which displayed influences of Mediterranean Revival architecture on its design. The hotel is an eleven-story limestone and brick building that rises 140 feet (43 m) above the ground. H.L. Stevens & Co. designed the current 233-room hotel in the Colonial Revival style and it was the third Savery Hotel to be built in Des Moines, opening in 1919. It was later rebuilt in 1930 and renovated extensively in 1999 and in 2016-2017. Located at 400 Locust Street, Des Moines, Polk County, Iowa and listed in the National Register of Historic Places. Number 1748.
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Date Created
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1925
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PID
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grinnell:16857
