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Title: Aerial View of Downtown Grinnell
Description: Aerial photograph of downtown Grinnell, Iowa, looking southeast from the intersection of 6th Avenue and West Streets in 1967. Lake Nyanza is visible in the upper right corner of the photo.
Date Created: 1967
PID: grinnell:6408

Title: Aerial View of Grinnell College Campus
Description: Color aerial photograph of the Grinnell College campus looking east along 8th Avenue in 1967. The science building is at the bottom center of the photo. To the right of that is the Men's Gymnasium (called Women's Gymnasium after 1942). The east campus dormitories and Saint John's Lutheran Church are visible near the center of the photo.
Date Created: 1967
PID: grinnell:6400

Title: Aerial View of Grinnell Looking North
Description: Aerial photo of downtown Grinnell taken by Dave Heise from a helicopter in July 1967 during Ridiculous Days. This view looks north on Main Street from Commercial Street to 6th Avenue.
Date Created: 1967
PID: grinnell:6231

Title: Aftermath of 1978 Tornado at Motel Grinnell
Description: Two images of the destruction caused by the September 16th, 1978 tornado in Grinnell, Iowa at Motel Grinnell Best Western, located at the intersection of Highway 146 and Interstate 80. Drake Community Library (Grinnell, Iowa) Archives. Miscellaneous photographs. Collection 32. Tornado, September 16, 1978.
Date Created: 1978
PID: grinnell:18830

Title: Aftermath of 1978 Tornado at Skelly Station and Diner
Description: Four images of the destruction caused by the tornado of September 16th, 1978 in Grinnell, Iowa at Hanner's Skelly Service Station and Diner which was located at the intersection of Interstate 80 and Highway 146. Drake Community Library (Grinnell, Iowa) Archives. Miscellaneous photographs. Collection 32. Tornado, September 16, 1978.
Date Created: 1978
PID: grinnell:18827

Title: Aftermath of 1978 Tornado at Wes Finch Chevrolet
Description: Four images of the damage to Wes Finch Chevrolet, located on Highway 146, after the September 16th, 1978 tornado in Grinnell, Iowa. Drake Community Library (Grinnell, Iowa) Archives. Miscellaneous photographs. Collection 32. Tornado, September 16, 1978.
Date Created: 1978
PID: grinnell:18837

Title: Aftermath of the 1978 Tornado at The Silhouette Coffee Shop
Description: Two images of the destruction at The Silhouette Coffee Shop after the September 16th, 1978 tornado in Grinnell, Iowa. Silhouette Coffee Shop was located at the intersection of Highway 146 and Interstate 80. Drake Community Library (Grinnell, Iowa) Archives. Miscellaneous photographs. Collection 32. Tornado, September 16, 1978.
Date Created: 1978
PID: grinnell:18831

Title: Ahrens Family
Description: Photograph of the Frederick and Henrietta Ahrens family on the front steps of their home at Sixth Avenue and Penrose in Grinnell, Iowa. The photo was probably taken about 1900, a few years after Frederick Ahrens lost his life in a farm accident involving runaway horses. Bottom row: Lizzie Myers, William Ahrens, Wilhelmina "Minnie" Ahrens, Frank Ahrens. Top row: Edward Ahrens, Annie Kuder, Henrietta H?cke Ahrens, Dora Ahrens Geiger, Ella Ahrens McMillan, Henry Ahrens.
Date Created: 1900
PID: grinnell:12912

Title: Ahrens Family about 1910
Description: Some of the family of Frederick and Henrietta Ahrens taken at their home at Sixth Avenue and Penrose in Grinnell, Iowa, about 1910. Back row: Henry Ahrens, William Ahrens holding Alice Ahrens Edgington, Frank Ahrens, Fred Schmidt (?), Will Geiger. Middle row: Carolyn "Carrie" Schultz Ahrens holding Wesley, Henrietta Ahrens, Ella Zahrt Ahrens holding Sheldon, Annie Kuder holding an unidentified child, Mary Myers Ahrens holding Stanley, Dora Ahrens Geiger, Minnie Ahrens, Ella Ahrens McMillan, Mrs. Fred Schmidt(?). Front row: Inez Ahrens Sanders is one of the children in the front row. All other children are unidentified.
Date Created: 1910
PID: grinnell:12913

Title: Al Ahrens Family
Description: Photograph of the Al Ahrens family in about 1940. Esther Ahrens is holding baby Jim Ahrens. Al Ahrens is on the right. The picture was possibly taken on the Ahrens family farm which was one mile east of Grinnell.
Date Created: 1940
PID: grinnell:12917