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Title: Interior View of Mears Cottage Dormitory Room
Description: Ann Woodhouse (left) and Joanne Bunge (right) working on a project in their Mears Cottage dorm room in 1952. From Joanne M. Bunge's Grinnell College student scrapbook, 1952-1956.
Date Created: 1952
PID: grinnell:12938

Title: Iowa State Normal, Cedar Falls, Iowa, Iowa State Teachers College, State College of Iowa, University of Northern Iowa, Administration Building, Auditorium Building, Lang Hall, College Hill
Description: Split postcard looking west at the old Administration Building completed in 1896 at a cost of $35,000, and the Auditorium Building (Lang Hall) completed in 1901 at a cost of $120,000, and looking northwest from College Hill, a residential area of Cedar Falls, at the college buildings seen in the center. Number 1732.
Date Created: 1910
PID: grinnell:13297

Title: Women's quadrangle, Quad Dining Hall, Main Hall
Description: Looking northwest. The Women's Quadrangle was built in 1915, with a combined cost of about $1 million for the quadrangle, and the men's halls in 1916-17. 1917 postmark. Number 46771.
Date Created: 1917
PID: grinnell:13331

Title: Mears Cottage
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: Lawther Hall for Women, Iowa State Teachers College, Cedar Falls, Iowa, University of Northern Iowa, State College of Iowa, Iowa State Normal School, Resident Hall, West Hall
Description: Looking northeast at the new dormitory, called sucessively The Addition to Bartlett Hall, The Residence Hall, West Hall, and Lawther Hall opened with an occupancy of 293 women for the summer 1940 term. It was built at a cost of $400,000. Number OB-H1950.
Date Created: 1940
PID: grinnell:13583

Title: Main Hall, Grinnell College, Grinnell, Iowa
Description: Looking northeast at Main Hall, part of the women's quadrangle. Main Hall was named to honor President John Hanson Thomas Main, who conceived of and carried forward the idea of Grinnell as a residential college. Number 22421N. Series 16.
Date Created: 1950
PID: grinnell:14482

Title: Mears Cottage
Description: Looking northeast. Mears Cottage was constructed in 1888, costing $14,719. Originally served as a ladies dormitory. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Number 925.
Date Created: 1920
PID: grinnell:13710