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Title: Aerial View Of Downtown Grinnell 1940s
Description: Aerial view of downtown Grinnell in the 1940s. The photo looks to the east. The bottom left corner is approximately the intersection of 5th Avenue and Spring Street and extends south along West Street to approximately 3rd Avenue. The Old Stone Church, Central Park, the Glove Factory and many other buildings are visible. Drake Community Library (Grinnell, Iowa) Archives. Views of Grinnell, Aerial Images. Collection 17-5.
Date Created: 1940
PID: grinnell:27169

Title: B. H. James Business Card
Description: Business card for B.H. James of Montezuma, Iowa, offering pump repair services.
Date Created: 1940
PID: grinnell:12518

Title: Broad St., Grinnell, Ia. S-201, Broad Street, Grinnell, Iowa
Description: Postcard view of Broad Street in Grinnell, Iowa, looking north from the intersection of Broad Street and Fifth Avenue. Postcard published by L.L. Cook Co., Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Drake Community Library (Grinnell, Iowa) Archives. Miscellaneous photographs. Collection #17-5, Views of Grinnell.
Date Created: 1940
PID: grinnell:12453

Title: Ford's Cafe
Description: Unidentified man standing outside of Ford's Cafe on Jackson Street in Brooklyn, Iowa, circa 1940.
Date Created: 1940
PID: grinnell:20682

Title: Frank Rowell with his Award Winning Rabbits
Description: Frank Rowell of Rowell's Hillside Rabbitry, Montezuma, Iowa, raised and sold rabbits. He also showed rabbits at competitions around Iowa and won many ribbons.
Date Created: 1949
PID: grinnell:27239

Title: Fred Spaulding Walking down the Street in Des Moines
Description: Fred Spaulding going to sell IOS (interest-only securities) funds in Des Moines in the early 1940s. He lived on Forest Avenue in Des Moines at the time.
Date Created: 1940
PID: grinnell:5714

Title: Friends on Jackson Street
Description: Friends pose on Jackson Street in Brooklyn, Iowa, circa 1940. From left to right: Bob McWilliams, Hildega Heistman, Virgil "Bud" Sherwood.
Date Created: 1940
PID: grinnell:20684

Title: Front and Jackson Street
Description: Unidentified man standing on the corner of Front and Jackson Street in Brooklyn, Iowa. The angled building behind him was the meat locker run by the Tony family.
Date Created: 1940
PID: grinnell:20685

Title: Grinnell Colonial Station 1946
Description: 1946 photo of the Colonial Petroleum service station at 1030 Broad Street in Grinnell, Iowa. The station has a sign that says "Happy Birthday Iowa" and "Grinnell College 1846-1946" and is decorated with American flags, possibly to celebrate the Fourth of July. There are two men standing in front of the pumps, an older man in a hat and a young man. A sign at right shows the prices for Regular and Ethyl gas.
Date Created: 1946
PID: grinnell:29979

Title: Higher and Higher, The Sinatra Show
Description: Color poster advertising a Grinnell, Iowa, screening of the 1943 film, Higher and Higher, starring Michele Morgan, Jack Haley and Frank Sinatra. Numbered 43 of 502.
Date Created: 1943
PID: grinnell:6373