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Title: 15127 Newcomer Avenue, Newburg, Iowa
Description: Home at 15127 Newcomer Avenue in Newburg, Iowa, (mailing address is Grinnell, Iowa) built by Charles Austin Palmer.
Date Created: 2008
PID: grinnell:12023

Title: Abi Frances Alden Palmer
Description: Studio portrait of Abi Frances Alden Palmer, wife of Anson Hayden Palmer. They married in 1877. Portrait by Brown, Marshalltown, Iowa.
Date Created: 1900
PID: grinnell:11943

Title: Anson Hayden Palmer
Description: Studio portrait of Anson Hayden Palmer, who founded Newburg, Iowa, on land purchased by his father, Horace Palmer. Portrait by Brown, Marshalltown, Iowa.
Date Created: 1900
PID: grinnell:11942

Title: David Yandell and Dorothy Palmer
Description: David Yandell (center) stands with his mother, Dorothy Palmer, and an unidentified man in front of a home at 15147 Newcomer Avenue in Newburg, Iowa. The house is believed to have been built by Charles Austin Palmer.
Date Created: 2008
PID: grinnell:12020

Title: First School, Newburg, Iowa
Description: Photograph of students outside of a schoolhouse. Back of photo is labeled: "School number 6, First school, Newburg, Ia. R.S.P." Drake Community Library (Grinnell, Iowa) Archives. Miscellaneous photographs. Collection 20, Grinnell Schools.
Date Created: 1900
PID: grinnell:13227

Title: Miscellaneous Photographs from Collection #54 Doris Losey
Description: Six miscellaneous images from the Doris Losey Collection at Drake Community Library in Grinnell, Iowa. Doris Losey Krumm was born in Fargo, Oklahoma, on September 15th, 1908, to George C. and Anna Marie Losey. She moved to Grinnell, Iowa, and attended Grinnell High School and Iowa Methodist School of Nursing before marrying Paul Krumm on September 6th, 1942, and settling to farm in the Newburg area. She died on January 29th, 1981, leaving behind her two children, Karen Weaver and Paul Krumm. Drake Community Library (Grinnell, Iowa) Archives. Miscellaneous photographs. Collection #54, Doris Losey (Krumm).
Date Created: 1925
PID: grinnell:18929

Title: Newburg Alumni Banquet
Description: Program for the Newburg Alumni Banquet held Saturday, June 6, 1981, for the alumni of Newburg High School.
Date Created: 1981
PID: grinnell:20603

Title: Newburg General Store
Description: The former Newburg General Store in Newburg, Iowa. Dorothy Palmer and her son, David Yandell are standing in front. Charles Austin and Nora Belle Palmer lived above the store with their family in the early 20th century. Abi (Alden) and Anson Palmer (Charles' parents) were married and began farming in what became Newburg in 1877. In 1881, Abi's brother, George Alden, bought the little general store on the land they were farming for Abi and George's mother, Louisa, and unmarried sister, Vesta, to live in. In 1920 or 1921 the apartment above the general store was available and Charles Austin Palmer and his wife, Nora Belle (Brown), lived there with their children when they returned to Newburg in 1920 or 1921, after building houses in Carpenter, Wyoming for a few years. Philip Palmer was born here and the family continued to reside above the store until around 1928, when they moved to Grinnell.
Date Created: 2008
PID: grinnell:12024

Title: Newburg High School Girls' Basketball Team
Description: Newburg High School girls' basketball team, 1928 champions. Top row, left to right: Ruby Davis, right center; Harriet Bacon, forward; Miss Leon Boegel, coach; Erma Bell, sub, right center; Tilla Rutherford, sub, guard. Bottom row, left to right: Add Gillespie, guard; Esther Palmer, guard; Mary Murphy, center, captain; Louise Smith, forward; Lorene Palmer, sub, right center and forward. Photo by Child.
Date Created: 1928
PID: grinnell:11941

Title: Newburg High School Girls' Glee Club
Description: Newburg High School Girls' Glee Club in 1927/1928. Top row, left to right: Ruth Flark, soprano; Ruth McCulloch, soprano; Lorene Palmer, alto; Miss Halverson, instructor. Front row, left to right: Lola Walker, soprano; Irene Madill, soprano; Mary Murphy, soprano or alto; Esther Palmer, alto; Lucille Bacon, alto. Photo by Child.
Date Created: 1927
PID: grinnell:11940