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Title: Growing Up
Description: In this block, the artists have chosen to call attention to the experiences of children during the Haitian Revolution. Two of of Toussaint L'Ouverture’s sons, named Isaac and Saint-Jean, are featured prominently in this piece. Growing up with a famous and powerful father, these children enjoyed many more luxuries than most Haitian children, for the two boys were fortunate enough to be sent to France in 1797 to receive education in foreign languages and the arts. However, even relocation to Europe did not save the boys from meeting the same ill fate which met the other nine of L’Ouverture’s children, many of whom died before their father. Above the portraits of the L’Ouverture sons, the artists have included a depiction of children harvesting sugar cane in a pre-revolution Haiti. These children were exploited under the relentless control of plantation owners, seen here in suit jackets and straw hats, who robbed children of their childhood, education, families, and often their lives.
Date Created: 2017
PID: grinnell:25510

Title: Hammond Children
Description: Walter and Hattie Child Hammond's children taken by Child Studio in Grinnell, Iowa. Mae Hammond and her brothers: Bruce, Pat, Arthur, and Walt.
Date Created: 1905
PID: grinnell:20428

Title: Helen, Rudolph and Alice Renfrow
Description: Portrait of Helen, Rudolph and Alice Renfrow, the three oldest children of Lee Augustus Renfrow and Eva Pearl Craig Renfrow, taken in Red Wing, Minnesota, in 1907.
Date Created: 1907
PID: grinnell:12189

Title: High school, Burt, Iowa, Burt High School
Description: The two-story brick building was erected in 1911 at a cost of $18,000. You can see children sitting on the front step. 1915 postmark. Number 3.
Date Created: 1915
PID: grinnell:14159

Title: Hoyt and June Veber
Description: Hoyt and June Veber, playmates of Don (1914-1980) and Paul (1915-1980) Anderson. Hoyt is wearing a buttoned shirt, belt, and rolled-up pants and June is wearing a white dress. The photograph is enclosed in a stiff paper leather-look booklet.
Date Created: 1920
PID: grinnell:23228