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Title: Community hospital, Grinnell, Iowa
Description: Looking southwest from Fourth Avenue. The community hospital opened in 1919. It was a 45-bed facility organized as a stock company and incorporated under Iowa laws. Number 21217. Series 2.
Date Created: 1940
PID: grinnell:14515

Title: County Farm Bureau Dues Receipt
Description: Receipt from the Poweshiek County Farm Bureau (Iowa) to R.S. Pilgrim for membership dues for calendar year 1940 in the amount of $10. Dated January 4, 1940
Date Created: 1940
PID: grinnell:30028

Title: Cousins
Description: Three children, dressed in snowsuits, coats and hats, stand outside a brick building. From left to right, they are Charlene Young, Virginia Smith, and Elsie Young. The Young sister's mother (also named Elsie Young) was a sister to Virginia's father.
Date Created: 1940
PID: grinnell:35502

Title: Donohoe Building, State Hospital, Cherokee, Iowa, Cherokee State Hospital, Cherokee Mental Health Institute
Description: Looking south at the Donohoe Building construction in 1931 as an example of the Neo-Classical institutional design. The Cherokee Mental Health Institute is a state-run psychiatric facility in Cherokee, Iowa. The hospital was opened for patients on August 15, 1902, and is located at 1251 W. Cedar Loop, Cherokee, Cherokee County, Iowa. The Donohoe Building is listed on Preservation Iowa's Most Endangered Properties. Number C540.
Date Created: 1940
PID: grinnell:13445

Title: East Main Street, Dunlap, Iowa, Kavanagh Drugstore, Lehan Drugstore
Description: Looking west on Main Street in Dunlap, Iowa, with a tire service shop, a restaurant and barbershop on the left, a drugstore and soda fountain on the right, and a garage in the background. Dunlap, Iowa was named after a railway official, George L. Dunlap. 1940 postmark.
PID: grinnell:16025

Title: East side square, Centerville, Iowa, Ritz Theater, Continental Hotel, Owl Drugs, The Fashion Shop, Montgomery Ward order office, Allen's, Bowling alley
Description: Looking northeast at the Continental Hotel with a drug store, shoe store, Montgomery Ward store and a bowling alley in the front. A Schlitz sign is also in front of a bar. The courthouse square historic district is listed on the National Register of Historical Places. Number N307.
Date Created: 1940
PID: grinnell:14574

Title: East square, Newton, Iowa
Description: Looking northeast on Newton's main square. Stores include Smith Drugs, Gambles, E.W. Woolworth, Co., Singer and the movie theater. Number M28.
Date Created: 1940
PID: grinnell:14324

Title: Edith in Chicago
Description: Edith Renfrow Smith wearing a print dress and heels and carrying a purse stands in front of an apartment building in Chicago, Illinois. The numbers 559 appear on the building to her left.
Date Created: 1940
PID: grinnell:35520

Title: Elmer Urfer Farm
Description: Aerial view of the Elmer Urfer farm, rural Montezuma, in the 1940s.
Date Created: 1940
PID: grinnell:27220