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Title: Child at Fence
Description: Photograph of Karen Petersen as a small child looking through the fence at farmland. She is holding a cloth doll. Contributed by Karen Petersen Groves.
Date Created: 1940
PID: grinnell:3378

Title: County Farm Bureau Dues Receipt
Description: Receipt from the Poweshiek County Farm Bureau (Iowa) to R.S. Pilgrim for membership dues for calendar year 1940 in the amount of $10. Dated January 4, 1940
Date Created: 1940
PID: grinnell:30028

Title: Elmer Urfer Farm
Description: Aerial view of the Elmer Urfer farm, rural Montezuma, in the 1940s.
Date Created: 1940
PID: grinnell:27220

Title: Newburg Elevator
Description: The Newburg (Iowa) elevator in the early 1940s. The elevator was built in 1917 and demolished in 2014. Itel Gillespie and Mac (Glenn) McCarel are standing in front of the elevator. On the verso of the photo is a handwritten history of the elevator and the town which was probably written in the late 1960s. It reads: Newburg founded 1878. 100 years ago there were 2 grain elevators constructed of wood. Then in 1917-1918 a poured concrete elevator and a block warehouse were built and still in use. 3 grocery stores that burned. The present building that still stands was a grocery store, but now is an apartment house. The railroad depot was demolished about 5 years ago. A water tank furnished water to the steam engines. A stock yard was available for the farmers cattle and hogs. We had our own post office. The creamery building still stands and did a route business and part of the building used as an ice house. We once had a prosperous bank, but it closed in 1933. There have been 2 blacksmith shops, a lumber yard. The farmers owned a telephone switchboard. One of the residents owned and operated a Model T agency. At one time we had 2 churches, the Church of God and the Congregational, this is now known as the UCC. A KP hall served as community center where the women gathered to sew during World War I. The lower floor housed new farm machinery. Our school is still operating and it now serves just 6th graders and one kindergarten class. In 1964 a newly formed organization known as Newburg Community Service Association dug a 225 foot well. It serves all homes business, school and church.
Date Created: 1940
PID: grinnell:20602

Title: Pilgrim-Sherman Farm
Description: View of the Pilgrim-Sherman farm located in the northeast quarter of Section 27 of Grant Township in Poweshiek County, Iowa.
Date Created: 1940
PID: grinnell:17380

Title: Sammy and Gertie
Description: Photograph of Sammy Petersen standing with Gertie, the cow, and some pigs. The cow was a wedding gift to Sammy Petersen and Aline Lidtka.
Date Created: 1940
PID: grinnell:3377

Title: Wallace Breniman With His Horses and Wagon
Description: Wallace Breniman farmed with horses. He is pictured with a team of horses and a high-sided wagon.
Date Created: 1940
PID: grinnell:27253