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Title: 900 Block of Main Street, Grinnell, Iowa
Description: Postcard view of the west side of the 900 block of Main Street in Grinnell, Iowa. A horse-drawn Co-operative Delivery wagon is being unloaded in front of Wesco and Roby Grocery which was located at 909 Main Street. Also visible is J.W. Harpster Furniture and Undertaking. Drake Community Library (Grinnell, Iowa) Archives. Miscellaneous photographs. Collection #17-2, Grinnell Buildings.
Date Created: 1900
PID: grinnell:11237

Title: Chester Center Store
Description: Photograph of Chester Center Store in Chester Township, Iowa, which was destroyed by fire in 1939. Pictured are H. G. Sutton, Beck Sutton, Mildred Sutton, and Aline Lidtka Petersen. Photograph was taken in the late 1920s
Date Created: 1920
PID: grinnell:3370

Title: Customers at the Cash Registers in McNally's
Description: View of customers in line at the cash registers in McNally's Foods, probably in the 1950s. The cash registers have signs which read, "Watch these figures for change due you! Your change figured automatically!" Cigarette displays are prominent in the checkout lanes.
Date Created: 1955
PID: grinnell:11919

Title: Edwards Family
Description: Photograph of Howard, Hazel and Marie Edwards posing in front of their grocery store, the Edwards Grocery Co., which was located at 809 Fourth Avenue in Grinnell, Iowa. Edwards Grocery offered home delivery of groceries and allowed charge accounts for your groceries. Drake Community Library (Grinnell, Iowa) Archives. Miscellaneous photographs. Collection #17-6, People.
Date Created: 1960
PID: grinnell:13016

Title: Food-4-Less
Description: Food-4-Less at 91 6th Avenue in Grinnell, Iowa. Drake Community Library (Grinnell, Iowa) Archives. Martzahn City Planning Slides, p.20, slide 10.
Date Created: 1991
PID: grinnell:30332

Title: Hy-Vee
Description: Photograph of the Hy-Vee grocery store which was located at 120 Sixth Avenue in Grinnell, Iowa. Drake Community Library (Grinnell, Iowa) Archives. Miscellaneous photographs. Collection #17-2, Grinnell Buildings.
Date Created: 1950
PID: grinnell:12926

Title: Hy-Vee Parking Lot
Description: View of the east side of the Hy-Vee and its parking lot in Grinnell, Iowa, when the Hy-Vee was located at 100 6th Avenue West. Starnes TV & Stereo Center can bee seen across the road. Drake Community Library (Grinnell, Iowa) Archives. Martzahn City Planning Slides, p.21, slide 10.
Date Created: 1991
PID: grinnell:30339

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: 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