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Title: Recent Acquisitions
Description: Works of art recently added to the collection through gifts from alumni and friends and purchases made possible by the Marie-Louise and Samuel R. Rosenthal Fund, Clinton A. Rehling `39 Purchase Fund for Art before 1900, Jacque Z. Baruch Memorial Purchase Fund, Christopher McKee Purchase Fund, Rosborough Fund and the Bea `39 and Joe `41 Wall Art Endowment.
PID: grinnell:recent-art-acquisitions

Title: "The Unfortunate Persons from St. Domingo" : Refugees from the Haitian Revolution and the Contradictions of Early American Politics
Description: This essay aims to show how the influx of refugees from the Haitian Revolution into the United States was a factor in changing US policies as they related to the practice of human bondage.
Date Created: 2014
PID: grinnell:31902

Title: 1903 University of Chicago Interscholastic Meet
Description: On June 6, 1903, William S. Hodgdon, a track athlete at Grinnell High School, won the 440 yard dash at the University of Chicago Interscholastic Meet held at Marshall Field in Chicago. Hodgdon set a record with his time of 54.8 seconds. Hodgdon can clearly be seen in white with the Grinnell iron cross on the chest of his shirt in the end of race picture. Drake Community Library (Grinnell, Iowa) Archives. Hodgdon Photographs Collection #259.
Date Created: 1903
PID: grinnell:27274

Title: 1953 Corvette, Grinnell Centennial Parade
Description: Van Wechel Motor Sales drives a 1953 Corvette in the Grinnell Centennial parade. Band members in uniform line the street behind it. The Corvette was introduced by General Motors in 1953. Van Wechel Motors was located at 1013 Broad Street. Drake Community Library (Grinnell, Iowa) Archives. Miscellaneous Photographs. Collection #17, Box #4.
Date Created: 1954
PID: grinnell:28728

Title: A Conversation about the Iowa Caucuses
Description: David Shribman and E.J. Dionne, Jr., talk about the Iowa caucuses.
Date Created: 2016
PID: grinnell:23106

Title: Adoption of the No-Requirements Curriculum
Description: Paper by Beryl E. Clotfelter, Professor Emeritus of Physics, on the history of Grinnell College's no-requirements curriculum and the establishment of the first-year tutorial.
Date Created: 2003
PID: grinnell:27788

Title: Afternoon Tea with Rabbi Abraham Skorka
Description: Invitation to a tea with Abraham Skorka, a rabbi and scientist who coauthored the book On Heaven and Earth: Pope Francis on Faith, Family, and the Church in the Twenty-first Century.
Date Created: 2019
PID: grinnell:27802

Title: Albert, World's Largest Bull, Audubon, Iowa
Description: Albert, World's Largest Bull. Built by the Audubon Jaycees, the concrete and steel structure is 30 feet tall, and 15 feet across the horns, and weights 45 tons.--t.p. verso. Located of of U.S. Highway 71 South, Audubon, Audubon County, Iowa. 1969 postmark. Number DT-5011-C.
Date Created: 1969
PID: grinnell:14229

Title: Allusion to Homer in the Mosaic of Odysseus and the Sirens from Dougga
Description: In this paper, I compare the mosaic in Dougga that depicts the section in The Odyssey decribing Odysseus’ encounter with the sirens to other instances of this scene type and other marine-themed mosaics in North Africa.
Date Created: 2015
PID: grinnell:31898