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Title: Max Smith Interview, American Beliefs and Cultural Values
Description: Max Smith was born in 1918 and raised on the family farm in Marshall County. He graduated from Chillicothe Business College in Missouri before working as a hog buyer for the Rath Packing Company in Waterloo. In 1941 he was drafted into the U.S. Army where he served in the European and North African theatres and fought in the Battle of the Bulge. After the war he completed his bachelors degree at Iowa State University in 1949 and moved to Grinnell in 1950 where he served as President of the Poweshiek County National Bank from 1966 through 1983. He and his wife, Delores, had two children. 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:26715

Title: McGregor's Furniture Truck in the 1949 Grinnell Day Parade
Description: McGregor's Furniture truck in the 1949 Grinnell Day Parade in Grinnell, Iowa. There are two people standing in the truck bed with an American flag. Drake Community Library (Grinnell, Iowa) Archives. Chamber of Commerce Slides, p.3, slide 12.
Date Created: 1949
PID: grinnell:19256

Title: McNally's Interior
Description: McNally's interior, circa World War II. Shows displays of produce. Signs visible include: "The home of corn-fed native beef." "Colonial is good bread." "Buy defense savings stamps here."
Date Created: 1943
PID: grinnell:11920

Title: McNally's Market
Description: View of McNally's Market in Grinnell, Iowa, with delivery vehicles and staff. Ida and Chris McNally are standing at the door. Jimmy McNally is the second from the left. Ed McNally is the third from the right.
Date Created: 1940
PID: grinnell:11918

Title: Medical Receipt
Description: Receipt made out to Mrs. J. M. Turner from R.W. Wood, M.D. and L.E. Fellows, M.D., eye, ear, nose, and throat doctors in Newton, Iowa.
Date Created: 1940
PID: grinnell:3351

Title: Men on Horses in 1949 Grinnell Day Parade
Description: Eight men on horses in the 1949 Grinnell Day Parade in Grinnell, Iowa. Drake Community Library (Grinnell, Iowa) Archives. Chamber of Commerce Slides, p.3, slide 20.
Date Created: 1949
PID: grinnell:19261

Title: Men's Dormitories, Grinnell College, Grinnell, Iowa F33
Description: Postcard view of the men's dormitories on the Grinnell College campus in Grinnell, Iowa. The view looks across Ward Field towards the northwest. The loggia and Gates-Rawson tower are visible on the left; Cowles Hall is visible on the right. Postcard was published by L.L. Cook Co., Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Drake Community Library (Grinnell, Iowa) Archives. Miscellaneous photographs. Collection #17-3, Grinnell College.
Date Created: 1945
PID: grinnell:11796

Title: Meskwaki Float in 1949 Grinnell Day Parade
Description: A Meskwaki float in the 1949 Grinnell Day Parade in Grinnell, Iowa. The people on the float are wearing traditional clothing and there is a tipi on the truck with them. Drake Community Library (Grinnell, Iowa) Archives. Chamber of Commerce Slides, p.7, slide 4.
Date Created: 1949
PID: grinnell:19307

Title: Midwest Distributing Receipt
Description: Receipt from Midwest Distributing Co., Grinnell, Iowa, to Raymond Pilgrim for livestock vaccinations. Dated April 26, 1940.
Date Created: 1940
PID: grinnell:30026

Title: Navy Officers in the 1949 Grinnell Day Parade
Description: Four Naval officers in uniform marching in the 1949 Grinnell Day Parade in Grinnell, Iowa. Drake Community Library (Grinnell, Iowa) Archives. Chamber of Commerce Slides, p.5, slide 19.
Date Created: 1949
PID: grinnell:19281