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Title: Ahrens Family about 1910
Description: Some of the family of Frederick and Henrietta Ahrens taken at their home at Sixth Avenue and Penrose in Grinnell, Iowa, about 1910. Back row: Henry Ahrens, William Ahrens holding Alice Ahrens Edgington, Frank Ahrens, Fred Schmidt (?), Will Geiger. Middle row: Carolyn "Carrie" Schultz Ahrens holding Wesley, Henrietta Ahrens, Ella Zahrt Ahrens holding Sheldon, Annie Kuder holding an unidentified child, Mary Myers Ahrens holding Stanley, Dora Ahrens Geiger, Minnie Ahrens, Ella Ahrens McMillan, Mrs. Fred Schmidt(?). Front row: Inez Ahrens Sanders is one of the children in the front row. All other children are unidentified.
Date Created: 1910
PID: grinnell:12913

Title: Broad Street South, Grinnell, Ia.
Description: Color postcard view looking north northeast from approximately the intersection of Broad Street and 6th Avenue in Grinnell, Iowa. Postcard addressed to Mr. Lynard Peeper, Dillsboro, Indiana, and postmarked April 29, 1918. Drake Community Library (Grinnell, Iowa) Archives. Miscellaneous photographs. Collection #17-5, Views of Grinnell.
Date Created: 1918
PID: grinnell:12448

Title: Charles Austin Palmer and Nora Belle Brown
Description: Postcard image of Charles Austin Palmer and Nora Belle Brown in a horse and carriage while courting in 1909 or 1910. They were married on September 21, 1910. Charles Austin and his brothers received a horse and carriage at graduation from eighth grade, but they were not allowed to continue their schooling. Azo stamp box on verso of postcard.
Date Created: 1910
PID: grinnell:12216

Title: Edith Renfrow as a Toddler
Description: Edith Renfrow as a toddler in Grinnell, Iowa, at age 2 years, about 1915.
Date Created: 1915
PID: grinnell:12138

Title: Eliza Jane Craig
Description: Eliza Jane Gilbal Craig in Grinnell, Iowa, circa 1910. Eliza Jane was Edith Renfrow Smith's maternal grandmother.
Date Created: 1910
PID: grinnell:12137

Title: Frank Burns and Mae Hammond Wedding
Description: Wedding portrait of Franks Burns and Mae Hammond taken on their wedding day, June 1, 1918, at 1127 Broad Street in Grinnell, Iowa.
Date Created: 1918
PID: grinnell:20432

Title: Grant Wilson Family
Description: The Grant "Connie" Wilson family posing on the front porch of their home in Grinnell, Iowa, circa 1913. Back row, from left to right: Cecil George Jay Wilson (1899-1948), Lucy May Wilson (1891-?), "Pop" Henry William Wilson (1894-1946), and Marie Leona Wilson (1896-1963). Back row: Grant "Connie" Wilson (1867-1932) holding Russell Lynch, unknown (identified as "Little Dad"), Sarah Doud Wilson (1866-1939), and Pauline Wilson (1903-1976). Grant and Sarah were the parents of Cecil (who went by "Jay"), Lucy, Henry, Marie, Pauline, and Paul (not pictured). The baby Russell Lynch, was Lucy's son and Grant and Sarah's grandson. The Wilsons lived at 408 2nd Avenue in 1910 and at 318 Broad Street in 1920.
Date Created: 1913
PID: grinnell:12433

Title: Henry William Wilson
Description: Portrait of Henry William Wilson who was born in Montezuma, Iowa, in 1894. By 1905 he lived in Grinnell, Iowa. He married Mary Lou Booton in Newton, Iowa, on November 14, 1914. By 1925, they had moved to Hancock County, Iowa. Henry was a baker by trade. He died in 1946 in California. This portrait was taken in 1914.
Date Created: 1914
PID: grinnell:12437

Title: Mae Hammond Burns
Description: Mae Hammond Burns, of Grinnell, Iowa, at approximately age 23. Photo by Child Studios.
Date Created: 1918
PID: grinnell:20606