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Telephone Service Float in the 1949 Grinnell Day Parade

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A green truck decorated with yellow, orange, white, and green streamers and a woman operating a switchboard in the truck bed in the 1949 Grinnell Day Parade in Grinnell, Iowa. The side of the truck says "Telephone Service Car No. 21." Drake Community Library (Grinnell, Iowa) Archives. Chamber of Commerce Slides, p.3, slide 18.
creator Grinnell Area Chamber of Commerce (Grinnell, Iowa)
Title Telephone Service Float in the 1949 Grinnell Day Parade
Index Date 1949
Date Issued September 5, 1949
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 Interior Telephone Company (Grinnell, Iowa)
Topic Parade floats
Topic Trucks
Topic Telephone switchboards
Topic Parades
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/11084/19259
Identifier (local) grinnell:19259
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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