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Title: Budweiser Clydesdales in Grinnell
Description: Photo of Budweiser Clydesdale trucks parked along Broad Street adjacent to Central Park in Grinnell, Iowa. A crowd is gathered around watching the Clydesdales being unloaded into the street. View is looking north from 3rd Avenue. Stewart Library is visible in the background. The Congregational church is under construction on the northeast corner of 4th Avenue and Broad Street. Drake Community Library (Grinnell, Iowa) Archives. McNally photographs. Collection #1, Series #1-2.
Date Created: 1953
PID: grinnell:6374

Title: City park, Gladbrook, Iowa
Description: View of fountain and people on a merry go around in the park. 1953 postmark. Number B652.
Date Created: 1953
PID: grinnell:14408

Title: First Avenue, Cedar Rapids, Iowa, First Avenue Bridge, Chamber of Commerce, Veterans Memorial Building, Cedar Rapids City Hall, Post Office, Federal Building, Hotel Roosevelt
Description: Looking east on First Avenue East. "First Avenue--Chamber of Commerce and Post Office in right foreground. Hotel Roosevelt in left background." -- t.p. verso. The Chamber of Commerce building (Veterans Memorial Building) was built by Hunter and Hatton, Cedar Rapids, in 1927. It housed community center facilities, and admistrative space, veterans' groups, and the Chamber of Commerce. The post office building (Federal Building) was completed in 1933. Hotel Roosevelt was built in 1927 in the Georgian Revival style by O.F. Paulson Construction. Krenn & Dato of Chicago were the architects. Number 66761. Series CR-8.
Date Created: 1953
PID: grinnell:14129

Title: Lincoln Restaurant, Boone, Iowa
Description: One story brick building with "On U.S. Hi-Way 30--Phone 80 Recommended by Duncan Hines "Adventures in Good Eating". --t.p.
Date Created: 1953
PID: grinnell:14173

Title: Loree Pugh Rackstraw '53 and Norma Tong Dang '53
Description: Alumni oral history interview with Loree Pugh Rackstraw '53 and Norma (Tong) Dang '53. Recorded 2011.
Date Created: 1953
PID: grinnell:18906

Title: Methodist Episcopal Church, M.E. Church, United Methodist Church, Methodist Church, Grinnell, Iowa
Description: Looking southwest. The Methodist Church was begun in 1895 and completed and dedicated in 1896. Richardsonian Romanesque in architectural styling. 1953 postmark. Number L-160.
Date Created: 1953
PID: grinnell:13281

Title: SPIRITS
Description: Cloth, paint. On back-' l'apparition'. Lower left corner gone, hole in lower right to the left of the signature, and figures. Background is brown, there are two figures with dark faces, there heads are outlined with green, and some blue. One figure seems
Date Created: 1953
PID: grinnell:34729