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Title: Stewart Public Library, Grinnell, Iowa -- 926
Description: Postcard view of Stewart Public Library, Grinnell, Iowa. Card is addressed to Mrs. Pearl Bedford, What Cheer, Iowa, and postmarked May 16, 1911, in Grinnell, Iowa. Postcard produced by C.U. Williams Photoette, Bloomington, Illinois. Drake Community Library (Grinnell, Iowa) Archives. Miscellaneous photographs. Collection #17-1, Stewart Library.
Date Created: 1911
PID: grinnell:6448

Title: Stewarts Library, Grinnell, Ia., Stewart Library, Grinnell, Iowa
Description: Color postcard view of Stewart Library in Grinnell, Iowa. Postcard is erroneously printed as "Stewarts" Library rather than Stewart Library. Postmarked May 17, 1909 and addressed to Miss Ethel Longley, Grinnell, Iowa. Card was made in Germany and imported by Brown & Harrington, Grinnell, Iowa. Drake Community Library (Grinnell, Iowa) Archives. Miscellaneous photographs. Collection #17-1, Stewart Library.
Date Created: 1909
PID: grinnell:6437

Title: Story Time at Stewart Library
Description: Story time at Stewart Library in Grinnell, Iowa. Front row, left to right: Donald Hummel, Rex Murphy, Donald Beck, Jeri Lippincot, Marge Ditzler, Virginia Shannon, Kenneth Beck. Second row: Barbara Temple, Sharon Hughes, Mary Lou Byers, Miriam McNally, Jim Wilcox. Third row: Marilyn Smith, Jackie Wells, [unidentified]. Fourth row: John Turner (?), Lynn Vine, Janet Koger, [unidentified]. Others in picture include: Robert Palmer, Jerry Doyle, Shirley Van Draska, Russell Peterson. The storyteller (with back to the camera) is Mary Ann Nelson. Drake Community Library (Grinnell, Iowa) Archives. Miscellaneous photographs. Collection #17-1, Stewart Library.
Date Created: 1940
PID: grinnell:6451

Title: Story Time with Mrs. Wilson
Description: Story time at Stewart Library in Grinnell, Iowa with Mrs. W. B. Wilson. Some of the children are identified as follows: Two Depoister children are the closest to Mrs. Wilson; a Strovers girl is on the right end of the front row; Jimmy Ziegenmeyer is on the left in the back row; a Strovers boy is in the striped shirt on the left end of the third row; the two boys next to him in the plaid shirts are brothers; the girl in the third row, last one on the right, is a Tiedeman; fifth child in the second row is a Parish; the tousled haired boy in the second row and the girl on the left of the front row are Dopka children. Drake Community Library (Grinnell, Iowa) Archives. Miscellaneous photographs. Collection #17-1, Stewart Library
Date Created: 1950
PID: grinnell:6460

Title: Telegram to Bernice Stemsrud
Description: Western Union telegram from the War Department to Bernice Stemsrud of Grinnell, Iowa, informing her of her appointment to a civil service position in Washington, D.C., in 1941.
Date Created: 1941
PID: grinnell:20644

Title: U.S. Army Plane Over Downtown Grinnell
Description: View of an U.S. Army airplane over downtown Grinnell (the Spencer building on the northeast corner of 4th Avenue and Main Street) during World War II. The pilot is identified as Grinnellian, Bob Garrigan, and the photo, dated July 29, 1942 was taken by Portrait-Art Studios, Grinnell, Iowa.
Date Created: 1942
PID: grinnell:11925

Title: USS Natchez
Description: Photograph of a naval ship tentatively identified as the USS Natchez, Jack Pilgrim's ship in World War II.
Date Created: 1942
PID: grinnell:17378

Title: United States Army 335th Signal Company
Description: Photo of the United States Army 335th Signal Company in 1944. The 335th was attached to the 52nd Troop Carrier Wing. William L. Belcher is in the third row, third from the left (of those visible). A roster of the company including the names and hometowns of those in the photo is available at https://digital.grinnell.edu/islandora/object/grinnell%3A6515. (The roster is alphabetical, it does not identify individuals in this picture.)
Date Created: 1944
PID: grinnell:6516

Title: United States Army Discharge Papers for Ben P. Tarleton
Description: Honorable discharge papers from the United States Army for Ben P. Tarleton dated July 21, 1919.
Date Created: 1919
PID: grinnell:12068

Title: View of Interior Doors
Description: View of the interior doors at the front entrance to Stewart Library in Grinnell, Iowa, before the renovations in 1980. Drake Community Library (Grinnell, Iowa) Archives. Miscellaneous photographs. Collection #17-2, Stewart Library.
Date Created: 1978
PID: grinnell:6469