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Title: School for Deaf and Dumb, Council Bluffs, Iowa, Iowa State Institution for the Education of the Deaf and Dumb, Iowa School for the Deaf
Description: The Iowa Institute for the Deaf and Dumb was moved from Iowa City to Council Bluffs in 1870 because the location was readily accessible by railroads and the 80-acre tract of land was purchased for a bargain price of $1,200. The school was a self-sustaining entity with its own farm, power plant and hospital. Today it has a state-of-the-art science center and updated learning spaces. Located at 3501 Harry Langdon Blvd, Council Bluffs, Pottawattamie County, Iowa. Number 21929.
Date Created: 1910
PID: grinnell:18378

Title: School house, Searsboro, Iowa, Searsboro High School
Description: Looking northeast at the Searsboro High School, established 1904.
Date Created: 1910
PID: grinnell:18252

Title: St. Angela Academy, Carroll, Iowa, Saint Angela Academy, St. Angela Domestic Science Institute, Kuemper Catholic High School, Kuemper Catholic School
Description: Looking northeast at a four-story brick and stone building founded by Father Joseph Kuemper as the St. Angela Domestic Science Institute in 1908, an all-girls boarding high school in Carroll, Iowa, to educate young women in the art of Christian homemaking. The school was later renamed the St. Angela Academy and closed in 1954. Soon after Father Leo Lenz led the effort to building a regional Catholic high school and a large addition was constructed and attached to the west side of the St. Angela building. The Kuemper Catholic School is located at 198 South East Street, Carroll, Carroll County, Iowa.
Date Created: 1934
PID: grinnell:13559

Title: St. Patrick's Academy destroyed by fire February 18, 1910, Danbury, Iowa
Description: The aftermath of the fire at St. Patrick's Academy in 1910. The building was a total loss from a fire that started in the belfry of the academy. 1910 postmark.
Date Created: 1910
PID: grinnell:16209

Title: St. Patrick's Academy, Danbury, Iowa
Description: This St. Patrick's Academy building, built in 1908 by C.F. Mayer, a contractor from Humboldt, Iowa, replaced the white wooden academy built in 1887 due to lack of space. The new academy had a full basement and four floors. It was heated with steam heat and electricity. The first floor held high school classroom and an auditorium; the third floor held rooms for the nuns, the fourth floor or attic had several rooms for roomers who stayed at the convent. The building was destroyed by fire in 1910. 1908 postmark. Title supplied by cataloger.
Date Created: 1908
PID: grinnell:16962