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Title: Hotel Savery Rocket Room, Des Moines, Iowa, Savery Hotel, Savery III, Renaissance Des Moines Savery Hotel
Description: The Rocket Room was originally a coffee room remodeled into a restaurant. Looking northwest at 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. Verso says: "A Tangney-McGinn Hotel, Home of Famous Food, 'Rocket Room', Bring Your Convention to Des Moines". Located at 400 Locust Street, Des Moines, Polk County, Iowa and listed in the National Register of Historic Places. Number 32484N.
Date Created: 1945
PID: grinnell:16938

Title: Hotel Savery, A Boss Hotel, Des Moines, Iowa, Savery Hotel, Savery III, Renaissance Des Moines Savery Hotel
Description: Looking northwest at 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. Verso says: "Hotel Savery, A Boss Hotel, 350 Attractive Fireproof Rooms with Both 3 Air-Conditioned Restaurants, omplete Air-Conditioned Convention Facilities". Located at 400 Locust Street, Des Moines, Polk County, Iowa and listed in the National Register of Historic Places.
Date Created: 1945
PID: grinnell:16855

Title: Iowa State Capitol and Governor of Iowa, Des Moines, Iowa, Wilson, George A.
Description: Photo of George A. Wilson, 1906 Grinnell College graduate and 28th Governer of Iowa, from 1939-1943. On verso: "The Iowa State Capitol was completed in 1886 at a cost of $3,296,256; in its construction, stone quarried in seven foreign countries and several different states was used. The world-famous 'golden dome' on the capitol building is real 22-carat gold." The building is located at 1007 East Grand Avenue, Des Moines, Polk County, Iowa, and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Series 11.
Date Created: 1945
PID: grinnell:16077

Title: John L. Smith to Lucille Ley - November 13, 1945
Description: John tells Lucille that he has received the final report and that his son is presumed dead. He provides his son's badge (?) number and asks Lucille for Jimmy's number so that he can send the information to the Quartermaster General's office. He says he intends to inquire about the deaths and burials of all the soldiers who were shot down on the 29th of February.
Date Created: 1945
PID: grinnell:26524

Title: John L. Smith to Lucille Ley - June 29, 1945
Description: John expresses his condolences to Lucille and his frustrations that their sons have not been located in France--alive or dead. He says he has received his son John's belongings and has little hope left for his son's safe return. He tells Lucille a second hand account of the plane crash that killed their sons and he thanks her for reaching out to the Air Commander.
Date Created: 1945
PID: grinnell:26526

Title: Just before sunset, Clear Lake, Iowa
Description: Two docks on Clear Lake with a sailboat in the background. Number H-292.
Date Created: 1945
PID: grinnell:14054

Title: Lazy H Motel, Denver, Iowa
Description: Front says: Lazy H Motel, 8 miles north of Waterloo or 2 miles south of Denver, Iowa, Hiway No. 63. Verso says: Lazy H Motel, new, modern, hot water heat. 8 miles North of Waterloo, Iowa on Hiway #63. Phone through Denver, Iowa. Number 13,787F.
Date Created: 1945
PID: grinnell:16941

Title: Looking west along the Walnut Street Bridge, Des Moines, Iowa
Description: Looking northwest at the closed-spandrel arch bridge over the Des Moines River. The bridge was built in 1911 by John Wheeler Construction Company of Geneva, Illinois and Marsh Engineering Company of Des Moines, Iowa. It's total length is 503.3 feet. Verso says: Des Moines, Iowa Looking West Along Walnut St. Bridge in Foreground, Locust St. Bridge in Background Showing Library, Post Office, Equitable Bldg., Television Towers, Hotels Kirkwood, Savery and Brown, YMCA, and Insurance Exchange Buildings. Number 70792.
Date Created: 1945
PID: grinnell:18900

Title: Lt. Harry Niemiec to Lucille Ley - May 1, 1945
Description: Lt. Niemiec responds to Lucille's inquiry about Jimmy's personal effects, and says a tracer has been initiated to locate them.
Date Created: 1945
PID: grinnell:26520

Title: M-B Motel, Corning, Iowa
Description: The M-B Motel located 1 mile west on 34. It accepts A.A.A., A.M.H.A.. It is strictly modern, heated, insulated, OPEN ALL YEAR. Mr. and Mrs. Glen Inlow, Managers; Francis Mack & Clifford Bradley, Owners. "A nice place for nice people." - Verso.
Date Created: 1945
PID: grinnell:16246