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Giant Mattress With Stars and a Person in 1949 Grinnell Day Parade

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A float designed to look like a giant mattress, decorated with red and blue stars in the 1949 Grinnell Day Parade in Grinnell, Iowa. There is a person at the headboard wearing a white toga and a gold crown and holding a torch overhead like the Statue of Liberty. Drake Community Library (Grinnell, Iowa) Archives. Chamber of Commerce Slides, p.2, slide 17.
creator Grinnell Area Chamber of Commerce (Grinnell, Iowa)
Title Giant Mattress With Stars and a Person in 1949 Grinnell Day Parade
Index Date 1948
Date Issued September 6, 1948
Publisher Poweshiek History Preservation Project
Genre slide
Digital Origin digitized other analog
Extent 1 slide, colored
Media Type image/jpeg
Provenance Drake Community Library (Grinnell, Iowa) Archives
Note 109 of 176 slides from the Grinnell Chamber of Commerce collection have been added to the Poweshiek History Preservation Project. A physical copy of all of the slides can be found at Drake Community Library Archives in Grinnell, Iowa.
Language English
Topic Parades
Topic Parade floats
Topic Costume
Geographic Grinnell (Iowa)
Keyword 1940s
Keyword Grinnell
Keyword Events & Celebrations
Related Item Poweshiek History Preservation Project
Related Item Drake Community Library (Grinnell, Iowa) Archives
Related Item Digital Grinnell
Identifier (hdl) http://hdl.handle.net/11084/19248
Identifier (local) grinnell:19248
Access Condition Copyright to this work is held by the author(s), in accordance with United States copyright law (USC 17). Readers of this work have certain rights as defined by the law, including but not limited to fair use (17 USC 107 et seq.).
Type of Resource still image
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