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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: 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: 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: 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

Title: Poweshiek County Rural Schools Eighth Grade Commencement
Description: Program for the eighth grade commencement exercises for the Poweshiek County, Iowa, rural schools held on Friday, May 18, 1956, in the Grinnell HIgh School Auditorium. The program includes a list of names of graduates arranged by township. Stanley G. Sanders was the county superintendent of schools.
Date Created: 1956
PID: grinnell:12460

Title: Rural School
Description: View of a rural school, possibly in Poweshiek County, Iowa. School children are posing in the windows. A bell tower with a U.S. flag is flying. The flag looks to be a 45 star flag based on the configuration of the stars.
Date Created: 1900
PID: grinnell:11926

Title: Rural School Locations in Poweshiek County, Iowa
Description: 1906 map of Poweshiek County, Iowa, showing locations of township schools, towns, creeks, rivers and railroads.
Date Created: 1906
PID: grinnell:6103

Title: Teacher's Report to Parents, Poweshiek County, 1937-38
Description: Fourth grade report card for Pearl Stepp for the school year 1937/38 in Poweshiek County, Iowa.
Date Created: 1937
PID: grinnell:12469

Title: Teacher's Report to Parents, Poweshiek County, 1941/42
Description: Eighth grade report card for Pearl Stepp for the school year 1941/42, in Poweshiek County, Iowa.
Date Created: 1941
PID: grinnell:12467