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Title: Arbor Lake, Grinnell, Iowa
Description: Looking east at shoreline with canoers and boathouse. Arbor Lake, named for Arbor Day, when hundreds of trees were planted there, was created in 1902 as a storage reservoir to provide soft water for manufacturing firms. Number 1222.
Date Created: 1905
PID: grinnell:14499

Title: Goodnow Hall, [Grinnell College], Grinnell, Iowa
Description: Looking northeast. Goodnow Hall was constructed in 1885, costing $15,700 excluding telescope ($2,125) and book stacks. Originally served as college library and astronomical observatory. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Number 1226.
Date Created: 1905
PID: grinnell:14537

Title: Grinnell College, Greetings from Iowa College, Gymnasium for Men, Grinnell, Iowa
Description: Looking north. The men's gymnasium was constructed in 1899 and razed in 1972, costing $20,180. It served as men
Date Created: 1905
PID: grinnell:13834

Title: Grinnell College, Goodnow Hall, Alumni Recitation Hall (A.R.H.), men's gymnasium, Iowa College, Grinnell, Iowa
Description: Looking northeast. 1905 postmark. Number 130.
Date Created: 1905
PID: grinnell:13409

Title: Mears Cottage, Ladies' cottage, [Grinnell College], Grinnell, Iowa
Description: Looking northeast. Mears Cottage was constructed in 1888, costing $14,719. Originally served as a ladies dormitory. Number 1225.
Date Created: 1905
PID: grinnell:13711

Title: Saint Angela Academy, St. Angela Domestic Science Institute, Normal College, Newton, Iowa
Description: Normal College was originally founded as a private school called the Hazel Dell Academy by Professor Darius Thomas in 1856. In 1893, the school was sold to Professor G.W. Wormley who moved it to a new location and named it the Newton Normal College. Business and teaching classes were taught there until its closing in 1906.
Date Created: 1905
PID: grinnell:13532

Title: Will see you when I come down to Malcom, Malcom, Iowa
Description: Drawing of man falling down. Number 767. Copyright 1905 by A. Yerkes.
Date Created: 1905
PID: grinnell:13973