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Title: 1305 Summer Street
Description: Winter view of 1305 Summer Street, Grinnell, Iowa, with snow on the ground. The back of the photo is labeled, "The house where the ladies of the Priscilla & Drummond Clubs would meet!" Drake Community Library (Grinnell, Iowa) Archives. Miscellaneous photographs. Collection 182, Drummond Club.
Date Created: 1960
PID: grinnell:21051

Title: 818 Elm Street
Description: 818 Elm Street in Grinnell, Iowa. This was the home of Mabel Stemsrud, and it was built by her son, Bert Stemsrud in 1948. The home was ordered from a catalog. Bert drove his tractor and a hay wagon into Grinnell from his Ewart farm and unloaded the house materials from a railway car. Bert and his brothers would bring loads of cobs from corn shelling to Mabel. She used those in her kitchen Home Comfort stove for cooking. She also had a cob fired hot water heater in the basement. Mabel kept a large garden and many fruit trees.
Date Created: 1960
PID: grinnell:20681

Title: Summer view of 1305 Summer Street
Description: Summer view of 1305 Summer Street in Grinnell, Iowa. Drake Community Library (Grinnell, Iowa) Archives. Miscellaneous photographs. Collection 182, Drummond Club.
Date Created: 1960
PID: grinnell:21052