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Title: 4-H Installation of Officers
Description: Jackson Busy Bees 4-H installs officers in 1960. From left to right: Mary Ahrens, Poweshiek County 4-H president; Pat Breniman, Busy Bees president; Joyce Ketels, vice-president; Barbara Veverka, secretary; Linda Ferguson, treasurer; Mary Sanders, reporter; Kathleen Little, historian.
Date Created: 1960
PID: grinnell:27242

Title: Baton Twirlers at Guernsey School
Description: Baton twirlers pose after performing at a PTA meeting at the Guernsey School circa 1951. Front row, left to right: Phyllis Trout, Gayle Hinrichs, Jane Pidima, Linda Border, Patty Breniman, Cheryl Smith, Carolyn Norden. Back row, left to right: Bob Mullin, Diane Pidima, Dina Hall, Phyllis Leff, Zelda Border, JoAnn Trout, Bonnie Seye, Joyce Hinrichs. Leader/teacher: Bonnie Belle Cranston.
Date Created: 1951
PID: grinnell:27225

Title: Budweiser Clydesdales in Front of the Rexall Drug Store
Description: The Budweiser Clydesdales pose in front of Mathews Rexall Drug Store on the southeast corner of 4th Avenue and Main Street in Grinnell, Iowa.
Date Created: 1951
PID: grinnell:11901

Title: Chester Royal "Modies"
Description: Six men dressed as women. A follies group. Pictured are: Glenn Harris, Harry Ryan, Paran Pederson, Ross Mintle, Floyd Lacina, and Leonard Pederson
PID: grinnell:3355

Title: Christmas 1949
Description: Christmas 1949 at 817 Seventh Avenue, Grinnell, Iowa. From left to right: Charles Austin Palmer, Nora Belle Palmer, Dorothy Tarleton Palmer, Cynthia Palmer, Gladys Schoonover Palmer, Benjamin P. Tarleton.
Date Created: 1949
PID: grinnell:11948

Title: Christmas Gathering at Dr. Porter's
Description: Christmas gathering at Dr. Porter's house in Grinnell, Iowa, circa 1940. Front row, left to right: Dale Smith, Eddie Peterson, Wilbur Molison, F.W. (Tommy) Tomasek, Hugh McCleary, Everett York. Back row: Florence Smith, Ada Peterson, Miriam Molison, Doris George, Ethel Tomasek, Sylvia McCleary, Leila York. Photo taken by Ray George at Dr. Porter's home.
Date Created: 1940
PID: grinnell:11756

Title: Circus Comes to Hartwick
Description: In the early 1960s a small circus came to Hartwick, Iowa. The circus stopped in several small Poweshiek County, Iowa, towns for a night. The circus consisted of a tent and a clown and a small parade including an elephant. Pictures were taken from the Benda's front yard in Hartwick.
Date Created: 1960
PID: grinnell:20643

Title: Civil War Veterans on the Courthouse Lawn
Description: Postcard photo of three Grand Army of the Republic members from Brooklyn, Iowa, relaxing on the grounds of the Poweshiek County Courthouse in Montezuma, Iowa, possibly at some sort of celebration. Left to right: Joe Karr, who drove the veterans to Montezuma; Hiram Frease, standing and holding the flag; Frank Dayton and Capt. George Phillips, both seated. Joe Karr was a dry goods merchant in Brooklyn, Iowa. The benches in front of the Karr store were favored places for Civil War veterans to sit and talk. Joe Karr, born in 1865, was not a Civil War veteran himself, although he may have been a GAR member through a relative.
Date Created: 1920
PID: grinnell:11767

Title: Float in Parade
Description: Postcard view of an early automobile decorated for a parade in Grinnell, Iowa. The automobile is decorated with ruffles, butterflies and a large umbrella. Women and children are passengers in the car. Azo stamp box on verso. Drake Community Library (Grinnell, Iowa) Archives. Miscellaneous photographs. Collection #17-5, Views of Grinnell.
Date Created: 1915
PID: grinnell:12441