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Title: 1946 Farm Record, 1947 Farm Record
Description: Farm record book published by C.A. Bacon, Hillsdale Michigan. This volume, published for 1946, has "1947" hand-written on the cover and contains records for the Raymond S. Pilgrim farm which was located in the northeast quarter of Section 27 of Grant Township in Poweshiek County, Iowa. The tables in the book are keyed to the federal income tax schedules. Schedules included are: Livestock bought and sold; sale of produce; labor expense; feed, seed, and supplies purchased; machines hired; repairs and maintenance; fertilizer; fuel and oil; interest paid; electricity and telephone; freight and trucking; veterinary and medicine; taxes paid; insurance; storage hired; rent of other lands and buildings; other miscellaneous expenses; depreciation of buildings, machinery, livestock, fences and drains; other income and other deductible expenses.
Date Created: 1947
PID: grinnell:30010

Title: 911 High Street
Description: 911 High Street in Grinnell, Iowa, built by Ed Bohstedt in 1940.
Date Created: 1940
PID: grinnell:21187

Title: Address Roster of the 335th Signal Company
Description: Address roster of personnel in the 335th Signal Company in 1945. The list contains the names and home towns of the men in the picture of the company (see https://digital.grinnell.edu/islandora/object/grinnell%3A6516)
Date Created: 1945
PID: grinnell:6515

Title: Al Ahrens Family
Description: Photograph of the Al Ahrens family in about 1940. Esther Ahrens is holding baby Jim Ahrens. Al Ahrens is on the right. The picture was possibly taken on the Ahrens family farm which was one mile east of Grinnell.
Date Created: 1940
PID: grinnell:12917

Title: Alice Renfrow Wearing her Kolinsky Wrap
Description: Alice Renfrow all dressed up in a hat and gloves and wearing her Kolinsky fur wrap, circa late 1940s.
Date Created: 1940
PID: grinnell:12193

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: Baby Cynthia Palmer at St. Francis Nursery
Description: Baby Cynthia Palmer in her bassinet in the nursery at St. Francis Hospital in Grinnell, Iowa, in January 1949.
Date Created: 1949
PID: grinnell:12072

Title: Bailey Homestead, Grinnell, Iowa
Description: Photograph of the farmhouse built by James Bailey on 11th Avenue north of Grinnell High School. Photo ca. 1940s. Currently (2014) the Habitat for Humanity house is in this location.
Date Created: 1940
PID: grinnell:5829

Title: Ben Purdum Conducting Church Service for Boy Scouts
Description: Boy Scout troops from Grinnell, Guernsey, Brooklyn, and Montezuma at the Boy Scout camporee west of Montezuma in 1943. Ben Purdum conducted the church service when the minister who was to have held the service failed to arrive in time. Boy Scout Troop 330 put on a play, The Good Samaritan, with Scoutmaster Purdum as narrator.
Date Created: 1943
PID: grinnell:27245

Title: Better Farm Accounting 1949, 1949 Farm Record
Description: Better Farm Accounting, second edition, a practical guide by Iowa State College Farm Management Specialists, prepared by Herbert B. Howell. Copyright 1946 and 1947 by the Iowa State College Press, Ames, Iowa. This volume, labeled 1949, contains records for the Raymond S. Pilgrim farm which was located in the northeast quarter of Section 27 of Grant Township in Poweshiek County, Iowa. Contains tables for records of livestock production, dairy sales, egg sales, livestock sales of animals raised and bought, purchases of livestock, crop sales, miscellaneous receipts, machinery bought and sold, farm expenses, net income statement, inventories of feed and seed, inventories of livestock, net worth, and crop record and map. Summaries can be used as the basis for filing income tax returns.
Date Created: 1949
PID: grinnell:30012