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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: 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

Title: Lang's Milk Advertisement
Description: Newspaper clipping of Lang's milk advertisement featuring Dianne Lynn and Joni Lee Turner, children of Mr. and Mrs. Hilliard Turner, Jr., of Grinnell. Photo by Hanssen Studio.
Date Created: 1940
PID: grinnell:5808

Title: McNally's Interior
Description: McNally's interior, circa World War II. Shows displays of produce. Signs visible include: "The home of corn-fed native beef." "Colonial is good bread." "Buy defense savings stamps here."
Date Created: 1943
PID: grinnell:11920

Title: McNally's Market
Description: View of McNally's Market in Grinnell, Iowa, with delivery vehicles and staff. Ida and Chris McNally are standing at the door. Jimmy McNally is the second from the left. Ed McNally is the third from the right.
Date Created: 1940
PID: grinnell:11918

Title: Newburg Elevator
Description: The Newburg (Iowa) elevator in the early 1940s. The elevator was built in 1917 and demolished in 2014. Itel Gillespie and Mac (Glenn) McCarel are standing in front of the elevator. On the verso of the photo is a handwritten history of the elevator and the town which was probably written in the late 1960s. It reads: Newburg founded 1878. 100 years ago there were 2 grain elevators constructed of wood. Then in 1917-1918 a poured concrete elevator and a block warehouse were built and still in use. 3 grocery stores that burned. The present building that still stands was a grocery store, but now is an apartment house. The railroad depot was demolished about 5 years ago. A water tank furnished water to the steam engines. A stock yard was available for the farmers cattle and hogs. We had our own post office. The creamery building still stands and did a route business and part of the building used as an ice house. We once had a prosperous bank, but it closed in 1933. There have been 2 blacksmith shops, a lumber yard. The farmers owned a telephone switchboard. One of the residents owned and operated a Model T agency. At one time we had 2 churches, the Church of God and the Congregational, this is now known as the UCC. A KP hall served as community center where the women gathered to sew during World War I. The lower floor housed new farm machinery. Our school is still operating and it now serves just 6th graders and one kindergarten class. In 1964 a newly formed organization known as Newburg Community Service Association dug a 225 foot well. It serves all homes business, school and church.
Date Created: 1940
PID: grinnell:20602

Title: Receipts
Description: Receipts made out to Hilliard Turner and Perry Turner for gasoline, sugar, and bank deposit
Date Created: 1940
PID: grinnell:3347

Title: Receipts
Description: Receipts from the Ration Board and the George and Hoyt Hardware store in the 1940s made out to Hilliard Turner.
Date Created: 1940
PID: grinnell:3348

Title: Win a Rabbit Contest
Description: Max Breniman, on the right, won a rabbit in a "guess the number of jelly beans in a jar" contest at a Brooklyn, Iowa, grocery store, circa 1945.
Date Created: 1946
PID: grinnell:27222