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Title: Ben Purdum Conducting Church Service for Boy Scouts
Description: Boy Scout troops from Grinnell, Guernsey, Brooklyn, and Montezuma at the Boy Scout camporee west of Montezuma in 1943. Ben Purdum conducted the church service when the minister who was to have held the service failed to arrive in time. Boy Scout Troop 330 put on a play, The Good Samaritan, with Scoutmaster Purdum as narrator.
Date Created: 1943
PID: grinnell:27245

Title: Better Farm Accounting 1949, 1949 Farm Record
Description: Better Farm Accounting, second edition, a practical guide by Iowa State College Farm Management Specialists, prepared by Herbert B. Howell. Copyright 1946 and 1947 by the Iowa State College Press, Ames, Iowa. This volume, labeled 1949, contains records for the Raymond S. Pilgrim farm which was located in the northeast quarter of Section 27 of Grant Township in Poweshiek County, Iowa. Contains tables for records of livestock production, dairy sales, egg sales, livestock sales of animals raised and bought, purchases of livestock, crop sales, miscellaneous receipts, machinery bought and sold, farm expenses, net income statement, inventories of feed and seed, inventories of livestock, net worth, and crop record and map. Summaries can be used as the basis for filing income tax returns.
Date Created: 1949
PID: grinnell:30012

Title: Billy, Doris and Graeme George
Description: Billy and Graeme George with their mother, Doris. Graeme's arm is in a cast which was set by Dr. John Parish.
Date Created: 1940
PID: grinnell:11739

Title: Broad St., Grinnell, Ia. S-201, Broad Street, Grinnell, Iowa
Description: 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.
Date Created: 1940
PID: grinnell:12453

Title: Brooklyn Hatchery and Produce Receipt
Description: Receipt from Brooklyn Hatchery and Produce to Wallace Breniman for hens, roosters, and ducks. Dated Nov. 10, 1944.
Date Created: 1944
PID: grinnell:27263

Title: Certificate of Award presented to William Kaloupek from the Office of Price Administration
Description: Certificate of Award presented to William Kaloupek of Grinnell, Iowa, by the Office of Price Administration for his participation in the War Price and Rationing Program. Presented on January 1, 1944.
Date Created: 1944
PID: grinnell:17367

Title: Child at Fence
Description: Photograph of Karen Petersen as a small child looking through the fence at farmland. She is holding a cloth doll. Contributed by Karen Petersen Groves.
Date Created: 1940
PID: grinnell:3378

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: Clarence and Susan George on their 50th Wedding Anniversary
Description: Clarence and Susan George on their 50th wedding anniversary in Grinnell, Iowa, September 15, 1942. From left to right: Mrs. Collins, Mrs. Baumgardner, Clarence and Susan George (with Susan in front), Mrs. Ernie George, and Mrs. Johnson. Ernie George was Clarence's older brother.
Date Created: 1942
PID: grinnell:11743