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Title: Berger and Mabel Stemsrud Wedding Portrait
Description: Berger Stemsrud and his bride, Olia Mable Christianson, on their wedding day, January 15, 1904. They were married in Poweshiek County, Iowa.
Date Created: 1904
PID: grinnell:20645

Title: Building Road in Iowa
Description: Jacob Martin ("Jake") Norris, with paper in his hand, stands with a road building crew in Poweshiek County, Iowa. Numerous teams of horses and mules hitched to road building equipment are working on a steep hill.
Date Created: 1900
PID: grinnell:12471

Title: Crop Planning Notebook
Description: Hand drawn maps of farm fields (with measurements) of Poweshiek County, Iowa, area farms created by Raymond S. Pilgrim. Indicates crops planted in each field for 1935 and 1936. Farms mapped include the following: Wm. Morrison farms, sec. 24 and 25; Al Martinson; H.W. Erickson, sec. 24; Vaughn; E.M. Hillman (sec. 25); Newton Tyson (Carl Snyder, operator) sec. 23; G.C. Murray (Ellard Broders, operator) sec. 26; Lewis Buchneau; C.M. Pilgrim; Ed Bohstedt; Ed Bohstedt (Taylor Place); Flannagan; Russell Windburn; Harold Renaud (Gun club); Airport farm; Leo Donohoe; Fred J. Anderson; Bledsoe; J.F.R.; Arthur J. Hansen; H.H. Rix; Harold Renaud; E.T. Evans; Lang; C.T. Evans (Frisbie); Paul Ester; B.A. Adams; Kogar; and Renbarger. Some blank pages were not scanned.
Date Created: 1935
PID: grinnell:18904

Title: Don Smith Interview
Description: This is an oral history interview of Mr. Don Smith, Professor Emeritus of History at Grinnell College. The interview, conducted by Ms. Judy Hunter, recalls many of Don's memories regarding the Democratic party and the political climate in Poweshiek County, Iowa, from 1970 to 2013.
Date Created: 2013
PID: grinnell:19501

Title: Eighth Grade Rural Commencement
Description: Program for the eighth grade commencement exercises for the Poweshiek County, Iowa, rural schools held on Sunday, May 27, 1934, at the Montezuma High School auditorium. The program includes a list of names of graduates arranged by township. Emma P. Denham was the county superintendent of schools.
Date Created: 1934
PID: grinnell:12459

Title: Farm Bureau Fun Night, Farm Bureau Spirit Song
Description: Program for the Poweshiek County Farm Bureau Fun Night. Lists the cast of the play, "The Nervous Wreck," and includes the text of the Farm Bureau Spirit Song.
Date Created: 1935
PID: grinnell:30031

Title: First Schoolhouse in Sugar Creek Township
Description: First schoolhouse and the first scholars of the first term of Sugar Creek Township, Poweshiek County, Iowa. From left to right: Levi McDowell, James Stanley, John English, Mrs. John Baker, Mrs. Sam Stewart, and Mrs. John English. The school was built in 1851 and the first teacher was Mr. Jack McDowell. Photo by Dr. John Souter; taken about 1898. Drake Community Library Archives. Oversize photos.
Date Created: 1898
PID: grinnell:6062

Title: Geoff Peak Interview
Description: This is an oral history interview of Geoff Peak, a prominent teacher in Poweshiek County school systems and graduate of Grinnell College. The interview, conducted by Judy Hunter, recalls many of Geoff's memories from his days in a one-room schoolhouse and as a middle school, high school, and alternative program instructor.
Date Created: 2014
PID: grinnell:23040

Title: Longley farm home
Description: Black and white photograph of the Longley family farmhouse two miles west of Grinnell. A note on the back of the photograph tells us that the home was built by Lyman Longley (1861-1909) in 1908.
Date Created: 1908
PID: grinnell:26636

Title: Perfect Attendance Certificate
Description: Certificate presented to Pearl Steppe [sic] for perfect attendance at school district #9 in Poweshiek County, Iowa, for the first six weeks of the school year 1938/39. Presented on October 14, 1938.
Date Created: 1938
PID: grinnell:12470