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Title: Correspondence
Description: Correspondence of the Grinnell Political Equality Club with the Iowa Equal Suffrage Association. 2 letters. Drake Community Library (Grinnell, Iowa) Archives. Collection # 161.
Date Created: 1905
PID: grinnell:5260

Title: Decline and Renewal in the Heartland, Tutorial, Fall 2004, Decline and Renewal in the Heartland
Description: The first year tutorial, taken in the fall semester, is Grinnell College's only general academic course requirement. The college intends the tutorial to assist students in further developing their critical thinking skills and in improving their written and oral communication skills. Each of the tutorials offered in a given fall semester is based around a particular subject matter, which provides the vehicle by which the above goals are accomplished. The arrival of European Americans in the Upper Midwest in the middle of the nineteenth century led to dramatic changes in the region's ecology. In what was perhaps the most rapid and extensive degradation of a natural ecosystem in human history, in the space of 50 years settlers plowed under millions of acres of the native tallgrass prairie and replaced it with a diversified agricultural ecosystem on what proved to be some of the best farmland in the world.
Date Created: 2004
PID: grinnell:317

Title: George W. Cook to Collins Cook, March 19, 1858
Description: George writes to his brother Collins about the railroad in Iowa and Illinois, and speaks about Henry Farnum [Farnam]. Land plots and lines of credit are discussed.
Date Created: 1858
PID: grinnell:12262

Title: John Brown's route across Iowa
Description: Clipping from Des Moines Register describing John Brown's route across Iowa.
Date Created: 1859
PID: grinnell:186

Title: Land Use and Conflict
Description: Poster advertising talks for the Land Use and Conflict conference held November 21-November 22, 2013, and sponsored by the Peace and Conflict Studies Program .
Date Created: 2013
PID: grinnell:5119

Title: Programme, Thirty-fourth Annual Meeting of the Iowa Equal Suffrage Association, Iowa Equal Suffrage Association Thirty-fourth Annual Meeting Programme
Description: Program of the 34th annual meeting the the Iowa Equal Suffrage Association held in Panora, Iowa, on November 9-11, 1905. Drake Community Library (Grinnell, Iowa) Archives. Collection #161.
Date Created: 1905
PID: grinnell:5224

Title: Study Club Outlines
Description: Pamphlet listing the topics of study club outlines prepared by the Iowa Traveling Library with the cooperation of the Iowa Federation of Women's Clubs. Outlines were available for loan from the Library. Drake Community Library (Grinnell, Iowa) Archives. Collection #161.
Date Created: 1900
PID: grinnell:5223

Title: Thirty-seventh Annual Convention of the Iowa Equal Suffrage Association, Iowa Equal Suffrage Association Thirty-seventh Annual Convention
Description: Program of the 37th annual convention of the Iowa Equal Suffrage Association held in Boone, Iowa, on October 27-29, 1908. Drake Community Library (Grinnell, Iowa) Archives. Collection #161.
Date Created: 1908
PID: grinnell:5225