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Title: Al Ahrens Family
Description: Photograph of the Al Ahrens family in about 1940. Esther Ahrens is holding baby Jim Ahrens. Al Ahrens is on the right. The picture was possibly taken on the Ahrens family farm which was one mile east of Grinnell.
Date Created: 1940
PID: grinnell:12917

Title: Alice Renfrow Wearing her Kolinsky Wrap
Description: Alice Renfrow all dressed up in a hat and gloves and wearing her Kolinsky fur wrap, circa late 1940s.
Date Created: 1940
PID: grinnell:12193

Title: Alumni Recitation Hall, Grinnell, Iowa
Description: Postcard view of Alumni Recitation Hall (ARH) on the Grinnell College campus in Grinnell, Iowa. The view is of the east side of the building looking from the south. Postcard published by E.C. Kropp Company, Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Drake Community Library (Grinnell, Iowa) Archives. Miscellaneous photographs. Collection #17-3, Grinnell College.
Date Created: 1940
PID: grinnell:11805

Title: Anna Ramsey Interview, Voices from the Past
Description: Anna Ramsey, the daughter of Frank and Alice Knight, was born on November 22, 1908. She graduated from Grinnell College in 1930. She married Fred Ramsey and had a son and a daughter. Before retiring, she worked as a secretary at Grinnell College.
Date Created: 1992
PID: grinnell:23315

Title: Arthur McDowell Interview, Voices from the Past
Description: One of nine children, Art was born south of Grinnell on June 22, 1902. After graduating from high school and working for three years at the Farmer's Elevator, he began his career in insurance. Upon retirement, he was Secretary-Treasurer of the Poweshiek County Mutual Insurance Company. He and his wife, Mildred, married in 1930, had a son and daughter.
Date Created: 1992
PID: grinnell:23310

Title: B.P.O.E. 1266 Parade Float in 1949 Grinnell Day Parade
Description: The Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks (B.P.O.E.) Grinnell chapter No. 1266's parade float in the 1949 Grinnell Day Parade in Grinnell, Iowa. The float is white and purple with an American flag draped over a table and a chest with an elk's head mounted on it. Drake Community Library (Grinnell, Iowa) Archives. Chamber of Commerce Slides, p.7, slide 12.
Date Created: 1949
PID: grinnell:19297

Title: B.P.O.E. No. 1266 Float in 1949 Grinnell Day Parade
Description: The Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks (B.P.O.E.) Grinnell chapter no. 1266's parade car in the 1949 Grinnell Day Parade in Grinnell, Iowa. The car is a dark navy convertible decorated with red and white streamers and several small American flags. Drake Community Library (Grinnell, Iowa) Archives. Chamber of Commerce Slides, p.7, slide 9.
Date Created: 1949
PID: grinnell:19311

Title: B.P.O.E. float
Description: B.P.O.E. float in the 1949 Grinnell Day Parade in Grinnell, Iowa. The float looks to be a car covered in a white and purple car-cover. Drake Community Library (Grinnell, Iowa) Archives. Chamber of Commerce Slides, p.4, slide 1.
Date Created: 1949
PID: grinnell:19266

Title: Baby Cynthia Palmer at St. Francis Nursery
Description: Baby Cynthia Palmer in her bassinet in the nursery at St. Francis Hospital in Grinnell, Iowa, in January 1949.
Date Created: 1949
PID: grinnell:12072

Title: Bailey Homestead, Grinnell, Iowa
Description: Photograph of the farmhouse built by James Bailey on 11th Avenue north of Grinnell High School. Photo ca. 1940s. Currently (2014) the Habitat for Humanity house is in this location.
Date Created: 1940
PID: grinnell:5829