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Title: 1938 Grinnell Automobile Race
Description: Photograph of an automobile race in Grinnell, Iowa, in 1938. Drake Community Library (Grinnell, Iowa) Archives. Miscellaneous photographs. Collection #17-6, People.
Date Created: 1938
PID: grinnell:13008

Title: Construction in Front of the Herald-Register Building
Description: View of a bulldozer and workmen in front of the Grinnell Herald-Register building on 5th Avenue in Grinnell, Iowa. Drake Community Library (Grinnell, Iowa) Archives. Miscellaneous photographs. Collection #17-2, Grinnell Buildings.
Date Created: 1936
PID: grinnell:6505

Title: Conversations with Iowa Farmers
Description: Frank Heath, Becca Rae-Holloway, Laurel Tuggle, and Barb Lease interviewed 30 Iowa farmers who grew up on Grinnell, Iowa, area farms in the 1920s, 1930s, and 1940s. Those interviewed included Raymond Brown, Burton Cooper and his sister Loretta Burrell, Gary and Susan Davis, Robert Dimit, Stanley Greenwald, Larry Ellis, Jean Hinegardner, Howard McDonough, Henry Harris, Bruce Henriksen, Elsie Johnston, James Harley and Patricia McIlrath, Gene and Ellen Merck, Don Milburn, Mike Mintle, Allan and Shirley Moyer, Bill and Marjorie Rempp, Ronald Riley, Boyd Sparks, Don and Doris Weaver, Frank Wheeler, Lucille Binegar Van Dyke, and Ronald Van Gennep.
Date Created: 2013
PID: grinnell:12986

Title: Costume Party at the Country Club
Description: Costume party at the Country Club in Grinnell, Iowa, in the late 1930s. Back row, left to right: Pat Gallagher, unidentified, Paul Behm, Al Frisbee, unidentified, unidentified, unidentified, unidentified, Helen Molsberry, unidentified, unidentified, unidentified, Alice Phelps, Les Riley, unidentified, Lou Phelps, unidentified, unidentified. Middle row: unidentified, Mrs. Chrysler, Mae Snyder, Myrtle Richardson, unidentified, Blanche Child, Mrs. Truesdale, May Gallagher, Mrs. Frisbee, unidentified, Mrs. Riley, Mrs. Crowder, unidentified. Front row: unidentified, unidentified, Louis Chrysler, unidentified, Mr. Kinzer (?), unidentified, Carl Child, unidentified. Drake Community Library (Grinnell, Iowa) Archives. Miscellaneous photographs. Collection #17-6, People.
Date Created: 1937
PID: grinnell:13099

Title: Frozen Water Tank
Description: Frozen Missouri and St. Louis Railroad water tank in Grinnell, Iowa. Taken in the winter of 1935. Drake Community Library (Grinnell, Iowa) Archives. Miscellaneous photographs. Collection #17-5, Views of Grinnell.
Date Created: 1935
PID: grinnell:12456

Title: Lorene Alyce Pearce Morrison
Description: Recollections of Lorene A. Pearce Morrison who was born in rural Grinnell, Iowa, in 1925. The locations of many businesses in Grinnell are discussed. Drake Community Library (Grinnell, Iowa) Archives. Pamphlet file. Biographies.
Date Created: 2013
PID: grinnell:13067

Title: McCormick Deering Farm Machines
Description: Men posing outside of the McCormick Deering Farm Machines store at 601 4th Avenue in Grinnell, Iowa. In the background to the left an F20 tractor is on the bed of a C30 International pickup truck. From left to right: Cash Parmley, Hollis Parmley, Homer Talbert, Charles Hayes, Lee Sheeler, and Fred Rayle. Drake Community Library (Grinnell, Iowa) Archives. Miscellaneous photographs. Collection #17-6, People.
Date Created: 1936
PID: grinnell:13089

Title: Myrtle Marguerite Cass
Description: Three portraits of Myrtle Marguerite Cass. Myrtle Cass was born in 1896 on a farm near Malcom, Iowa. She graduated from Grinnell High School and was a member of the Grinnell College Class of 1929. She received her M.A. in Latin from Columbia University, New York City, and her Ph.D. in languages in 1933, also from Columbia. She returned to Grinnell in 1937 to care for her mother and sister at the family home. Drake Community Library (Grinnell, Iowa) Archives. Miscellaneous photographs. Collection #17-6, People.
PID: grinnell:13101

Title: Water Tank at Grinnell, 1936
Description: View of a rural water tank in the wintertime at Grinnell in 1936. Water has spilled over the top and created huge icicles. Drake Community Library (Grinnell, Iowa) Archives. Miscellaneous photographs. Collection #17-2, Grinnell Buildings.
Date Created: 1936
PID: grinnell:11236