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Aerial View Of Downtown Grinnell 1940s
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Description
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Aerial view of downtown Grinnell in the 1940s. The photo looks to the east. The bottom left corner is approximately the intersection of 5th Avenue and Spring Street and extends south along West Street to approximately 3rd Avenue. The Old Stone Church, Central Park, the Glove Factory and many other buildings are visible. Drake Community Library (Grinnell, Iowa) Archives. Views of Grinnell, Aerial Images. Collection 17-5.
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Date Created
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1940
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PID
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grinnell:27169
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Broad St., Grinnell, Ia. S-201, Broad Street, Grinnell, Iowa
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Description
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Postcard view of Broad Street in Grinnell, Iowa, looking north from the intersection of Broad Street and Fifth Avenue. Postcard published by L.L. Cook Co., Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Drake Community Library (Grinnell, Iowa) Archives. Miscellaneous photographs. Collection #17-5, Views of Grinnell.
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Date Created
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1940
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PID
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grinnell:12453
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Charles Delong Interview, American Beliefs and Cultural Values
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Description
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Charles W. DeLong was born in Gary, Indiana, in 1910. He attended Grinnell College graduating with the Class of 1931. He was a business man who sold gloves for the glove factory, manufactured sportswear, and, later, stadium seats. He and his wife, Katherine Coggeshall, had four children. Interview conducted as part of American Beliefs and Cultural Values, an American Studies class taught by Hanna Griff at Grinnell College in 1993.
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Date Created
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1993
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PID
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grinnell:26718
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Dorothy Lannom Interview, Voices from the Past
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Description
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Born in Cedar Rapids on November 3, 1912, Dorothy Williams came to Grinnell in 1934 as a graduate of Coe College. She taught home economics until her marriage in 1936 to G. Sharp Lannom III. She was interested in politics, and went to the Far East with the Iowa Development Commission and Iowa Governor Harold Hughes. Three of her four sons carried on the family manufacturing business.
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Date Created
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1992
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PID
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grinnell:23308
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Everett Armstrong Interview, Voices from the Past
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Description
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Born in Chester Township on January 3, 1917, Everett moved into the city of Grinnell in 1930, where he graduated from Grinnell High School in 1935. After returning from a tour of duty in World War II, he founded Armstrong Electric from which he retired in 1980. He represented the Fourth Ward on the City Council from 1949 to 1951. He and his wife, Phyllis, were the parents of a daughter and a son.
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Date Created
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1992
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PID
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grinnell:23298
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Gene Breiting Interview, Voices from the Past
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Description
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A lifelong resident of Grinnell, Gene was born July 23, 1913. He graduated from Grinnell High School, and was drafted into service during World War II in 1943. He worked at various jobs in Grinnell, and in Amana for eleven years. He and his wife, Doris, had a son and two daughters.
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Date Created
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1992
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PID
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grinnell:23301
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Grinnell Colonial Station 1946
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Description
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1946 photo of the Colonial Petroleum service station at 1030 Broad Street in Grinnell, Iowa. The station has a sign that says "Happy Birthday Iowa" and "Grinnell College 1846-1946" and is decorated with American flags, possibly to celebrate the Fourth of July. There are two men standing in front of the pumps, an older man in a hat and a young man. A sign at right shows the prices for Regular and Ethyl gas.
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Date Created
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1946
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PID
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grinnell:29979
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Higher and Higher, The Sinatra Show
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Description
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Color poster advertising a Grinnell, Iowa, screening of the 1943 film, Higher and Higher, starring Michele Morgan, Jack Haley and Frank Sinatra. Numbered 43 of 502.
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Date Created
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1943
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PID
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grinnell:6373
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Isadore Berman Interview, Voices from the Past
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Description
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Isadore Berman was born February 22, 1924. He graduated from Grinnell High School in 1941, served in WW II, earned a BA from Grinnell College in 1949 and, later, an MBA from Columbia University. He is continuing in the family scrap metal business. He and his wife, Ida, have a son and a daughter.
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Date Created
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1992
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PID
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grinnell:23300