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Title: Spring Planting
Description: Harry Ryan on his Allis-Chalmers tractor at spring planting time in the late 1960s or early 1970s in Chester Township, Poweshiek County, Iowa. The field is plowed and a farmstead is visible in the background.
Date Created: 1970
PID: grinnell:29797

Title: Spring Silly Season
Description: View of college students marching along the street in Grinnell, Iowa, in support of the new liquor store. Attached newspaper clipping reads: Officially arriving in Grinnell Friday was spring silly season, which is usually most evident on the college campus. Such was the case here Friday afternoon when a group of about 100 Grinnell College students marched from the campus to the new liquor store with flags waving, car horn honking and drums beating a steady rhythm. The signs read "Eat, Drink And Be Merry For Tomorrow It May Close!!" and "Prohibition Repealed in Grinnell."
Date Created: 1960
PID: grinnell:11930

Title: St. Mary's Catholic Church in Grinnell, Iowa
Description: St. Mary's Catholic Church in Grinnell, Iowa. Drake Community Library (Grinnell, Iowa) Archives. Chamber of Commerce Slides, p.9, slide 3.
Date Created: 1965
PID: grinnell:19322

Title: Summer view of 1305 Summer Street
Description: Summer view of 1305 Summer Street in Grinnell, Iowa. Drake Community Library (Grinnell, Iowa) Archives. Miscellaneous photographs. Collection 182, Drummond Club.
Date Created: 1960
PID: grinnell:21052

Title: Mojos
Description: Local Grinnell, Iowa, band, "The Mojos," circa 1968 or 1969. From left to right: Chuck Lannom, Jim Ryan, Carlos Mendoza, Ray Burlingame, Scott Hanson, and Steve Devine.
Date Created: 1968
PID: grinnell:27202

Title: Penquite Motel
Description: Flier for the Penquite Motel, located on the corner of 6th Avenue and Penrose Street in Grinnell, Iowa, advertising rooms for a bowling tournament to be held in Grinnell from February 17 to March 24 probably in 1961. Fern and Gene Freeborn bought the Penquite Motel in 1961 and changed the name to Freeborn Motel shortly thereafter.
Date Created: 1961
PID: grinnell:12204

Title: Three Images of a Class at School No. 2
Description: Three images of a class from School House No. 2 in Poweshiek County, Iowa, lined up outside the school house and swinging on a swing set in August of 1960. Drake Community Library (Grinnell, Iowa) Archives. Miscellaneous photographs. Collection #24, Rural Schools (including snowstorm).
Date Created: 1960
PID: grinnell:18838

Title: Three Views of the General Telephone Company Building
Description: Three views of the completed General Telephone company building at 11 11th Avenue in Grinnell, Iowa, in 1967: daytime, dusk and nighttime.
Date Created: 1967
PID: grinnell:6398

Title: Train Depot, Grinnell, Iowa
Description: Photograph of the Rock Island Depot in Grinnell, Iowa, circa 1963. Drake Community Library (Grinnell, Iowa) Archives. McNally photographs. Collection #1, Series #1-1.
Date Created: 1963
PID: grinnell:6206

Title: Virgil Jones Interview, Voices from the Past
Description: Born in Grinnell on September 10, 1912, Virgil graduated from high school and attended Grinnell College for a time. He worked in retail sales and traveled for the Grinnell Shoe Company. After service in the Navy during World War II, he and his wife, the former Ona Whitaker, joined in the operation of the Grinnell Livestock Exchange until 1973.
Date Created: 1992
PID: grinnell:23307