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Simpson College to Display Photographs Restored with NEA Grant
A National Endowment for the Arts grant worth $10,000 has saved some 4,000 negatives depicting Iowa and Warren County life from the 1920s through the 1940s. Forty of the images created from the restored negatives will be on display at Simpson College in Indianola Jan. 6-30.
The photos come from the collection of Don Berry, longtime publisher of the Indianola Record. Berry began his career as a reporter for The Des Moines Register in 1903 after graduating from Simpson College. In 1904 he left the newspaper to be a farmer, but never lost his love for journalism. In1920 Berry purchased the Indianola Record, now known as The Record-Herald and Indianola Tribune. He remained editor and publisher of the Warren County paper for 40 years, retiring in 1960. He died in 1974 at the age of 94.
The photographs come from a collection of negatives bestowed to Simpson College after Berry’s death. But soon after, a member of the Berry family asked they be returned in order to create a coffee table book of his images. The images were not seen again until they were returned to Simpson in 1994.
The exhibit will include a rich assortment of images, such as Iowa landscapes, WACS in Army Jeeps on the Indianola town square, children at play and typical family life of that era.
As part of the NEA grant, the photographs will be displayed at other locations throughout Iowa, including at Grandview College in the fall of 2006.
An exhibit reception will be from 4:30 to 6 p.m. on Thursday, Jan. 26 in Farnham
Galleries on North C Street in Indianola. Senior professor emeritus of history
Joseph Walt will present "Don Berry, Iowan" at 7:30 p.m. that day in
Camp Lounge of the Brenton Student Center, 701 North C St. in Indianola. For more
information, call 515.961.1600 or 515.961.1761.
IRS Web site Update for Charities and Nonprofits
The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) debuted a new and updated website with an improved search function and a new row of navigation buttons, including a specific area for charities and nonprofits. Under the "Charities & Nonprofits" landing page, visitors will find a second level of navigation for charities, churches and religious organizations, contributors to charities, other nonprofits (including trade and professional associations), political organizations, and private foundations.
