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Title: Aerial View of Grinnell in the 1960s
Description: Aerial view of Grinnell, Iowa, probably in the 1960s. The view is looking to the northwest. The Mayflower Home and the water tower are visible in the lower left quadrant and the majority of the downtown is visible. Photograph by Wellhouse Studio. Drake Community Library (Grinnell, Iowa) Archives. Miscellaneous photographs. Collection #17-5, Views of Grinnell.
Date Created: 1960
PID: grinnell:12445

Title: Aerial View of Northwest Grinnell
Description: Aerial photograph of northwest Grinnell, Iowa, looking north along Reed Street from approximately 6th Avenue in 1967. Bailey Park Elementary School is visible at the left center of the photo. The newly completed General Telephone company building is visible in the upper left.
Date Created: 1967
PID: grinnell:6401

Title: Aerial View of Northwest Grinnell
Description: Aerial photograph of northwest Grinnell looking north along Prairie and Reed Streets. Bailey Park Elementary School is visible at the bottom center of the photo. The newly completed General Telephone company building is slightly above the center of the photo. Sunset Avenue is to the far left and 11th Avenue is the northmost east-west street visible.
Date Created: 1967
PID: grinnell:6402

Title: Aerial View of Southwest Grinnell
Description: Aerial photograph of southwest Grinnell, Iowa, looking southwest in 1967. Davis School on Hamilton Avenue between Broad and Main Streets (with curved driveway) is on the left edge of the lower half of the photo. The trailer park along Washington Avenue is visible in the center of the photo.
Date Created: 1967
PID: grinnell:6403

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: Ann Bohstedt
Description: Ann Bohstedt on stage at the Golden Jubilee for Camp Fire Girls in 1960.
Date Created: 1960
PID: grinnell:21171

Title: Approaching Grinnell from the South from Highway 146
Description: The entrance to Grinnell, Iowa when approaching from the south on Highway 146. The Iowa Highway Commission garage is visible on the right with four orange cars outside it. Drake Community Library (Grinnell, Iowa) Archives. Chamber of Commerce Slides, p.8, slide 1.
Date Created: 1963
PID: grinnell:19312

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: Auto Salvage Yard
Description: Automobile salvage yard in Grinnell, Iowa, in 1963. Drake Community Library (Grinnell, Iowa) Archives. Chamber of Commerce Slides, p.8, slide 11.
Date Created: 1963
PID: grinnell:19314

Title: Bailey Park School Fifth Grade 1965
Description: Mrs. Barber's fifth grade class at Bailey Park School, Grinnell, Iowa, May 27, 1965. Front row, left to right: Stuart Fisher, Jon Baumgartner, Tristram Parslow, John Dayton, Jim Puls, Gary Eurom, Eric Christiansen, Rick Halstead, Dave Dale. Second row, left to right: Debra Collum, Jeanne Pinder, Patty Bass, Pam Groth, Cindy Staecker, Donna Hull, Cindy Gruehn, Harriet Clements, Diane Morrison. Third row, left to right: Vicky Vinall, Sheryl Huyser, Donna Vaness, Cindy Mielak, Karen Koger, Nancy Pierce, Mary Jane Dee, Shirley Callison, Eloise Helmke, Carla Baron, Nancy Eickelberg, Pam Matthews. Back row, left to right: Gordon Neufand, Bob Snook, Mrs. Barber (teacher)
Date Created: 1965
PID: grinnell:29814