Drake Community Library Archives

Digitized copies of materials from the Drake Community Library archives. Includes photographs and documents related to the history of the Grinnell community, businesses and organizations.

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The view looking north along Sunset Avenue from 8th Avenue in Grinnell, Iowa. Grinnell High School is visible on the left. Drake Community Library (Grinnell, Iowa) Archives. Martzahn City Planning Slides, p.15, slide 12.
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Looking south along Sunset Street in Grinnell, Iowa with Grinnell High School on the right and tennis courts on the left. Drake Community Library (Grinnell, Iowa) Archives. Martzahn City Planning Slides, p.16, slide 15.
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The Depot at 1014 3rd Avenue in Grinnell, Iowa. Originally the Rock Island railroad station and later a restaurant called The Deport. Drake Community Library (Grinnell, Iowa) Archives. Martzahn City Planning Slides, p.18, slide 4.
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The view looking north along West Street from 4th Avenue in Grinnell, Iowa. The Ford/Mercury/Lincoln dealer is on the right hand side of the road. Drake Community Library (Grinnell, Iowa) Archives. Martzahn City Planning Slides, p.18, slide 16.
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Drummond Club members in approximately 2005. Seated, left to right: Bonnie Wold, Reba Postels, Norma Lang, Judy Bush, Frances Peak, Carol Molison. Standing: Joanie Heimsoth, Molly Urfer, Judy Garland, Marcia Jepsen, Sandy Falck, Dona Hendrickson, Phyllis Lang, Ethel Howig, Betty Ann Battey, Betty Ludden, Madge Ruchotzke, Miriam Bauman. Drake Community Library (Grinnell, Iowa) Archives. Miscellaneous photographs. Collection 182, Drummond Club.
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Photograph of the sign installation crew at the Grinnell Railway Express in Grinnell, Iowa, in 2005. From left to right: Gordon Borthwick, Mike Thorndike, Robin Broders, and Adam Williams. Drake Community Library (Grinnell, Iowa) Archives. Pamphlet file. Grinnell (Iowa) -- Associations & Organizations -- Grinnell Railway Express.
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Drummond Club meeting on November 3, 2007. Going around the table from the front left: Betty Ann Battey, Molly Urfer, Dona Hendrickson, Ethel Howig, Judy Garland, Sandy Falck, Phyllis Lang, Miriam Bauman, Marcia Jepsen, Joanie Heimsoth, Bonnie Wold, Reba Postels, Norma Lang, Carol Molison (standing), Judy Bush, Frances Peak. Drake Community Library (Grinnell, Iowa) Archives. Miscellaneous photographs. Collection 182, Drummond Club.
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The Drummond Club Christmas luncheon was held on December 2, 2009, in Montgomery Lounge at the Mayflower Home in Grinnell, Iowa. Front row, from left to right: Connie Marshall, Connie Molsberry, Rita Penne, Carol Molison, Molly Urfer. Second row: Carolyn Ritter, Miriam Bauman, Judy Bush, Betty Ann Battey, Jo Wray. Third row: Norma Lang, Echo Jansen, Sandy Falck, Dona Hendrickson, Ethel Howig, Barb Engberg, Madge Ruchotzke. Back row: Dorothy Palmer, Joanie Heimsoth, Phyllis Lang, Rosie Mathews. Drake Community Library (Grinnell, Iowa) Archives. Miscellaneous photographs. Collection 182, Drummond Club.
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Reminiscences of Garnette Steele Wheeler about the Freewill School, an early subscription school in Union Township, Poweshiek County, Iowa, compiled by Cecily Unruh. Drake Community Library (Grinnell, Iowa) Archives. Pamphlet file. Poweshiek County (Iowa) -- History -- Union Township.
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Frank Heath, Becca Rae-Holloway, Laurel Tuggle, and Barb Lease interviewed 30 Iowa farmers who grew up on Grinnell, Iowa, area farms in the 1920s, 1930s, and 1940s. Those interviewed included Raymond Brown, Burton Cooper and his sister Loretta Burrell, Gary and Susan Davis, Robert Dimit, Stanley Greenwald, Larry Ellis, Jean Hinegardner, Howard McDonough, Henry Harris, Bruce Henriksen, Elsie Johnston, James Harley and Patricia McIlrath, Gene and Ellen Merck, Don Milburn, Mike Mintle, Allan and Shirley Moyer, Bill and Marjorie Rempp, Ronald Riley, Boyd Sparks, Don and Doris Weaver, Frank Wheeler, Lucille Binegar Van Dyke, and Ronald Van Gennep.
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Recollections of Lorene A. Pearce Morrison who was born in rural Grinnell, Iowa, in 1925. The locations of many businesses in Grinnell are discussed. Drake Community Library (Grinnell, Iowa) Archives. Pamphlet file. Biographies.
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Photograph of the Grinnell Railway Express sign taken in May 2015. The Grinnell Railway Express is a model railroad club in Grinnell, Iowa. Drake Community Library (Grinnell, Iowa) Archives. Pamphlet file. Grinnell (Iowa) -- Associations & Organizations -- Grinnell Railway Express.
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Photograph of the north side of the Grinnell Railway Express building in Grinnell, Iowa, taken in May 2015, showing the mural, Eclipse, painted by Dave Loewenstein in 2001. Drake Community Library (Grinnell, Iowa) Archives. Pamphlet file. Grinnell (Iowa) -- Associations & Organizations -- Grinnell Railway Express.
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Photograph of the south side of the Grinnell Railway Express building in Grinnell, Iowa, taken in May 2015. The Grinnell Railway Express is a model railroad club. Drake Community Library (Grinnell, Iowa) Archives. Pamphlet file. Grinnell (Iowa) -- Associations & Organizations -- Grinnell Railway Express.
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View of the east and north sides of the Grinnell Railway Express building in Grinnell, Iowa. The mural on the north side of the building is by Dave Loewenstein. Drake Community Library (Grinnell, Iowa) Archives. Pamphlet file. Grinnell (Iowa) -- Associations & Organizations -- Grinnell Railway Express.
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A candidate for the town logo for Grinnell, Iowa. Drake Community Library (Grinnell, Iowa) Archives. Imagine Grinnell Slides, p.33, slide 14.
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The original Grinnell, Iowa, Congregational Church built around 1860. It stood where the Stewart Library building now stands. To the right is Grinnell's first high school. Drake Community Library (Grinnell, Iowa) Archives. McNally photographs. Collection #1, Series #1-3.
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Eight exterior view of Merchant's National Bank in downtown Grinnell, Iowa, at the corner of 4th Avenue and Broad Street.
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Color greeting postcard with four views of Grinnell, Iowa, in the shape of butterfly wings. The figure of a woman is in the center. The four views are of: Iowa [Grinnell] College, Stewart Library, Broad Street between 4th and 5th Avenues, and Blair Hall on the Iowa College campus. Postcard published by Brown & Harrington, Grinnell, Iowa. "The PCK Series" is embedded in a drawing of a peacock on the verso. Postcard is addressed to Mrs. Lula Baird, Corwith, Iowa, and is dated May 25, 1909. Drake Community Library (Grinnell, Iowa) Archives. McNally photographs. Collection #1, Series #1-1.
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Two images of 917 10th Avenue, in Grinnell, Iowa, which, from 1986 until 2003 housed the Iowa Peace Institute.