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Title: Aerial View of Floats in 1948 Grinnell Day Parade
Description: An aerial view of some of the floats in the 1948 Grinnell Day Parade in Grinnell, Iowa. Turner's Pharmacy, the drug store, and Westinghouse are visible on the street. Drake Community Library (Grinnell, Iowa) Archives. Chamber of Commerce Slides, p.1, slide 9.
Date Created: 1948
PID: grinnell:19345

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: Alex Moffett Interview, American Beliefs and Cultural Values
Description: Alex Moffett was born in 1905 in Suzhou, China, to missionary parents. He lived in China until 1923 when he attended Washington & Lee in Virginia for college and then went on to Vanderbilt for medical school. He and his wife, Virginia, returned to China in 1935 where they did medical missionary work until 1940, including during the Sino-Japanese war. After returning to the U.S., he had a private practice in Taylorsville, North Carolina, for twenty-nine years. Interview conducted as part of American Beliefs and Cultural Values, an American Studies class taught by Hanna Griff at Grinnell College in 1993.
Date Created: 1993
PID: grinnell:26717

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: Augusta Pederson Interview, Voices from the Past
Description: Since her birth on October 29, 1904, Augusta has lived in or near Grinnell. After her marriage to Leonard Pederson, she was his partner in farming, active in Grange and church work, and a busy homemaker and mother. She was an accomplished cook, baker, and quilter. She and her husband had three children.
Date Created: 1992
PID: grinnell:23313

Title: B. H. James Business Card
Description: Business card for B.H. James of Montezuma, Iowa, offering pump repair services.
Date Created: 1940
PID: grinnell:12518

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