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Title: W. E. Ley to Jimmy Ley - October 11, 1943
Description: Jimmy's father writes to him about goings on at home and updates him on the neighbors, the fall weather, and the season's positive farmwork prospects. He expresses his pride in Jimmy and his hopes for Jimmy's future.
Date Created: 1943
PID: grinnell:26464

Title: W. E. Ley to Jimmy Ley - October 30, 1943
Description: Jimmy's father tells him about the outcome of his trip to Des Moines with Jimmy's brother Billy. He muses on being home alone and repeats what Lucille wrote about the money including the purchase of a $50 bond for Jimmy.
Date Created: 1943
PID: grinnell:26467

Title: War Ration Book Two
Description: Ben Tarleton's War Ration Book Two issued by the U.S. Office of Price Administration.
Date Created: 1943
PID: grinnell:12071

Title: We Are What We Eat: Food, Culture, and Identity in Literature and Film, Food, Culture, and Identity in Literature and Film
Description: In this tutorial we will examine the cultural and political significance of food in literature and film. We will focus on the way national cultures and personal identities are described and defined through narratives of the preparation, consumption, and appreciation of food in twentieth-century Chinese and Chinese American literature and film. Additionally, the course will integrate samples from other cultures and periods as points of comparison. Extracurricular activities, such as a restaurant visit, will also be included to facilitate our understanding and analysis of the culture of food.
Date Created: 2002
PID: grinnell:3463

Title: Wedding Announcement for Henry W. Spaulding and Aimee Haight
Description: Newspaper clipping announcing the wedding of Henry W. Spaulding and Aimee Haight in Rockford, Illinois, in 1903.
Date Created: 1903
PID: grinnell:5798

Title: West Side of Broad Street between 4th Avenue and Main Street
Description: View of the west side of Broad Street between 4th Avenue and Main Street in Grinnell, Iowa. Talbott's Drug Store on the corner of 4th and Broad. Building blocks are labeled from left to right (south to north) as: Grinnell Block, Gifford and Manly Block, Child Block (909), Stewart Block (911-913), Morse Block (915), Coutts Building, and Miles Bros./Parker. Drake Community Library (Grinnell, Iowa) Archives. Miscellaneous photographs. Collection #17-2, Grinnell Buildings.
Date Created: 1910
PID: grinnell:6485

Title: When Josiah Grinnell's Home Concealed John Brown's Guns
Description: Clipping advertising a series of articles by the Des Moines Register about John Brown's trip through Iowa, including his stay at J.B. Grinnell's home.
Date Created: 1859
PID: grinnell:185

Title: Wood Anatomy of Darwiniothamnus, Lecocarpus, and Macraea (Asteraceae)
Description: The genera Darwiniothamnus Harling, Lecocarpus Decaisne, and Macraea Hook. f. are endemic to the Galapagos Islands. Although wood anatomy of Lecocarpus has been considered by Carlquist (1958) and Eliasson (1971), the material available hitherto has been twigs rather than mature wood. The other two genera have not been studied with respect to wood anatomy.
Date Created: 1982
PID: grinnell:26661