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Title
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Ahrens Homestead
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Description
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View of the Ahrens family homestead on their Center Township, Poweshiek County, Iowa, farm.
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Date Created
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1930
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PID
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grinnell:12911
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Title
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Chester School #5
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Description
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Photograph of Chester School #5, in Chester Township, Poweshiek County, Iowa. It was the only two-room rural school: one room was elementary and the other was a two-year high school. The school faced south; the west windows were on the high school side.
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Date Created
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1930
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PID
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grinnell:3389
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Title
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Farm Bureau Fun Night, Farm Bureau Spirit Song
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Description
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Program for the Poweshiek County Farm Bureau Fun Night. Lists the cast of the play, "The Nervous Wreck," and includes the text of the Farm Bureau Spirit Song.
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Date Created
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1935
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PID
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grinnell:30031
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Title
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Girls outside Chester School #5
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Description
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Female students and teacher at Chester School #5 in Poweshiek County, Iowa. From left to right: Marjory Hafkey,[unidentified], Aline Lidtka (teacher), Lorene Upchurch, and Jean Ahrens.
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Date Created
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1930
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PID
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grinnell:3390
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Title
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Harry Case and Old Betsy
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Description
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Harry Case, Grinnell, Iowa, fire chief, stands next to the fire engine nicknamed "Old Betsy." Case became a member of the Grinnell volunteer firefighters on May 27, 1917. He was fire chief from 1936-1941. Case retired and was added to the fire department honor roll on January 14, 1946.
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Date Created
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1930
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PID
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grinnell:20696
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Title
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M.E. Church, Montezuma, Ia., M.E. Church, Montezuma, Iowa
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Description
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Postcard view of the Methodist Episcopal Church in Montezuma, Iowa. Built in 1905, the church was destroyed by a fire on Sunday, April, 30, 1939. A new church was built on the same site, 200 South 4th Street.
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Date Created
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1930
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PID
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grinnell:12515
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Title
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Poll Tax and Old Age Pension Fund Receipts
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Description
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Receipts made out to Hilliard Turner and Eldora Turner for the Old Age Pension Fund tax levied for 1936, and to Hilliard Turner for the Poweshiek County Road Poll Tax, also in 1936.
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Date Created
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1930
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PID
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grinnell:3349
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Title
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Post Office, Gilman, Iowa
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Description
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The Gilman Post Office building which was used for revival services by the predecessors of the Assembly of God church in Grinnell, Iowa. This building was moved to a location at 619 Broad Street in Grinnell in the early 1930s by Edward B. Wright (on the right in the picture) and George Driscoll (on the left). Edward B. Wright was an evangelist, and he and Driscoll were also house movers.
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Date Created
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1930
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PID
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grinnell:6380
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Title
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St. Mary's Catholic Church
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Description
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Photograph of St. Mary's Catholic Church on the northeast corner of 5th Avenue and Broad Street in Grinnell, Iowa. The church was built in 1927.
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Date Created
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1930
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PID
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grinnell:3331
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Title
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Swimming lessons
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Description
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Dorothy Tarleton gives swimming lessons to young girls somewhere in the Grinnell area in the late 1930s.
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Date Created
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1930
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PID
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grinnell:12067