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On April 6, 1951, she became the first woman to photograph herself giving birth. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] She contributed more than 500,000 negatives from the 1940s to 2007 to the archives of the State Historical Society of Iowa and has been called Iowa's premier documentary photographer of the 20th century. [ 3 ]
Location of Clinton County in Iowa. This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Clinton County, Iowa. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Clinton County, Iowa, United States. Latitude and longitude coordinates are provided for many ...
The site has been fortified in wood since Saxon times, with a stone castle dating from the 12th century. The current castle was constructed in the mid-19th century by John Talbot, 16th Earl of Shrewsbury, of nearby Alton Towers. Since 1967 the castle has been designated a Grade I listed building. [1] It is also a scheduled monument. [2]
Alton houses the district's middle school while elementary and high schools are in Orange City. Spalding Catholic School , which serves elementary grades, is located in a single campus in Alton. It was previously a K-8 school and had multiple campuses, with middle school in Granville , but the Granville campus closed in 2017, and middle school ...
Interior of a late 13th-century garderobe at Chirk Castle in Wales.. The term garderobe is also used to refer to a medieval or Renaissance toilet or a close stool. [2] In a medieval castle, a garderobe was usually a simple hole discharging to the outside into a cesspit (akin to a pit latrine) or the moat (like a fish pond toilet), depending on the structure of the building.
The de Verdun family of Alton Castle, Staffordshire had a history in the region, Bertram de Verdun arriving as part of John's first expedition to Ireland in April 1185. By 1185 he had erected a manor house at Castletown Mount and subsequently obtained the town's charter in 1189. [citation needed]
The Alton Museum of History and Art, sometimes known as the Robert Wadlow Museum, in Alton, Illinois was founded in 1971 as a not for profit organization. [1] [2] It is located in Loomis Hall, named for Rev. Hubbel Loomis, on the grounds of the former Rock Spring Alton Baptist Seminary established by missionary John Mason Peck, later renamed Shurtleff College, and presently the home of the ...
The Palace Site is a ca. 7,000-year-old archeological site in Des Moines, Iowa with evidence for some of the oldest houses west of the Mississippi valley and the oldest human burial in Iowa. [1] Since 2011, the site has yielded 6,000 or more artifacts, which included human skeletons.