Search results | Digital Grinnell

Title: Bad Wreck at Victor
Description: Newspaper article from the Brooklyn Chronicle describing the train wreck at Victor, Iowa, on January 18, 1902.
Date Created: 1902
PID: grinnell:27269

Title: Bailey Park School Fifth Grade 1965
Description: Mrs. Barber's fifth grade class at Bailey Park School, Grinnell, Iowa, May 27, 1965. Front row, left to right: Stuart Fisher, Jon Baumgartner, Tristram Parslow, John Dayton, Jim Puls, Gary Eurom, Eric Christiansen, Rick Halstead, Dave Dale. Second row, left to right: Debra Collum, Jeanne Pinder, Patty Bass, Pam Groth, Cindy Staecker, Donna Hull, Cindy Gruehn, Harriet Clements, Diane Morrison. Third row, left to right: Vicky Vinall, Sheryl Huyser, Donna Vaness, Cindy Mielak, Karen Koger, Nancy Pierce, Mary Jane Dee, Shirley Callison, Eloise Helmke, Carla Baron, Nancy Eickelberg, Pam Matthews. Back row, left to right: Gordon Neufand, Bob Snook, Mrs. Barber (teacher)
Date Created: 1965
PID: grinnell:29814

Title: Biopolitics and the Experience of the Cambodian Genocide
Description: This essay discusses the Cambodian Genocide in relation to international and legal definitions of Genocide and the philosophical, political and humanitarian implications of those definitions.
Date Created: 2014
PID: grinnell:31904

Title: Blairstown Bank, Blairstown, Iowa, Benton County Bank, Benton County State Bank
Description: Two story brick building in Blairstown, Iowa. 1909 postmark. Number 64874.
Date Created: 1909
PID: grinnell:13917

Title: Boone Viaduct over the Des Moines River, Boone, Iowa, Kate Shelley High Bridge, Kate Shelley Memorial High Bridge, Boone High Bridge, Chicago & Northwestern Railroad viaduct, Boone Viaduct
Description: "Boone Viaduct over the Des Moines River, four miles west of Boone, Iowa, on main line of Chicago & Northwestern Railway. Length 2,685 feet. Height 185. 5,600 tons of Steel. Length of center span 300 feet. Largest Double Track Bridge in the World." --t.p. The Pratt deck truss bridge was built in 1899-1901, designed by the Chicago and Northwestern Railroad and constructed by the American Bridge Co. (Ambridge, PA). It is located in the Boone-Ogden Cutoff and crosses the Des Moines River at a point where the bluffs on either side are about 3000 feet apart. The bridge was nicknamed for the Iowa railroad heroine, Kate Shelley, also spelled Shelly. In 1881, when she was 17 years old, Kate Shelley risked her life to warn a passenger train by crossing the Des Moines River Bridge near Moingona at night, during a thunderstorm. Her goal was to warn the passenger train that the next bridge was out. That train had already been stopped. She then led rescuers to two men still in the swollen, flooded Honey Creek near her house, and they were saved. Her bravery was heralded in many newspapersListed in the National Register of Historic Places.
Date Created: 1905
PID: grinnell:13379

Title: Bridge and river, Belle Plaine, Iowa, Iowa River
Description: Old truss bridge across the Iowa River near Belle Plaine, Iowa. 1907 postmark.
Date Created: 1907
PID: grinnell:13772

Title: Broad Street, West of Park, Grinnell, Iowa
Description: Postcard with colorized photograph of Broad Street, West of Park, Grinnell, addressed to Ethel Longley (1884-9/19/1961).
Date Created: 1921
PID: grinnell:26617

Title: Brooklyn Hatchery and Produce Receipt
Description: Receipt from Brooklyn Hatchery and Produce to Wallace Breniman for hens, roosters, and ducks. Dated Nov. 10, 1944.
Date Created: 1944
PID: grinnell:27263

Title: Buddhism, Homosexuality, and Non-binary Genders in Thailand
Description: This paper looks at the truth behind the claim that Thailand is known for welcoming and tolerant attitudes towards the LGBT community
Date Created: 2015
PID: grinnell:30066