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Title: VOODOO CITY
Description: Painting of a sea side city with steep, castle- like mountains . Somewhat abstract. The sea is bright blue, the roads and buildings wind steeply up the mountains. Crowds of people gather on the shore and in the streets. Photo attached to Index card is not the photo shown in database: jungle with giraffes, angel, two children, peacock.
Date Created: 1980
PID: grinnell:34635

Title: VOODOO PARADE (RA RA)
Description: Evening scene of people dancing. They are parading down a street. Man at the front plays a flute or saxaphone. People wave their arms, jump, twist. Houses are visible on either side of the narrow street. a house on the viewer's right has lights in the window.
PID: grinnell:34630

Title: VOODOU TEMPLE
Description: Simple metal temple with designed roof. Fenced in on sides and back, with various figures inside. Two front figures are in profile, kneeling down towards a stick or sphere in the middle of the temple or ground. While most metal sculptors in Haiti have traditionally created works which are primarily two-dimensional in form, some artists have employed welding, riveting, bending and assemblage to create three-dimensional sculpture.
Date Created: 1997
PID: grinnell:34690

Title: Valentine's Dance 1955
Description: Grinnell College students at a Valentine's Day dance in 1955, probably in one of the gymnasiums. The Jack Oatts band is playing in the background. From Joanne M. Bunge's Grinnell College student scrapbook, 1952-1956.
Date Created: 1955
PID: grinnell:12955

Title: Van Horne Park
Description: Photograph of the construction of Van Horne Park in Grinnell, Iowa.
Date Created: 1981
PID: grinnell:3383

Title: Vanderveer Park, Davenport, Iowa, Vander Veer Botanical Park
Description: In 1885 the city of Davenport acquired the property that had been the Scott County Fairgrounds. It is a significant example of landscape planning, and of the civic improvements that were being made by the city in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Five years after the land was purchased and improved it was named Central Park after New York City's park of the same name. Central Park was renamed Vander Veer after an early Davenport park commissioner in 1911. The park consists of 70.8 acres, is located at 215 West Central Park Avenue, Davenport, Scott County, Iowa, and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. 1918 postmark.
Date Created: 1918
PID: grinnell:18455