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Title: Children Selecting Books at Stewart Library
Description: Children selecting books in the children's room at Stewart Library in Grinnell, Iowa. From left to right: John Brink, Nancy Russell, Candace Pederson, Kirsten Pederson, Tania Loveridge. Photo from Wallace's Farmer and Iowa Homestead, Des Moines, Iowa. Drake Community Library (Grinnell, Iowa) Archives. Miscellaneous photographs. Collection #17-1, Stewart Library.
Date Created: 1950
PID: grinnell:6461

Title: Christmas Pageant
Description: Participants in the Sunday school Christmas pageant at the Malcom Methodist church in the 1950s.
Date Created: 1950
PID: grinnell:5703

Title: Cooper School Children on the Playground
Description: Cooper School children on the playground in Grinnell, Iowa, early 1950s. Boys on the stairs to the slide, girls climbing on the monkey bars. House on Elm Street visible in the background.
Date Created: 1950
PID: grinnell:5699

Title: Cooper School Students Eating Lunch
Description: Cooper School students eating lunch outside on the playground in the early 1950s.
Date Created: 1950
PID: grinnell:5698

Title: Cooper School Teachers
Description: Cooper School teachers, Grinnell, Iowa, early 1950s. Left to right: Dorothy Paine, Lavina Osborn, Ruth Paine, Mrs. Haag, Mary Patton, Mrs. Hutchinson.
Date Created: 1950
PID: grinnell:5697

Title: Marshall County Courthouse, County court house, Marshalltown, Iowa
Description: Looking northeast. Marshalltown, located in the heart of Iowa, has been called "The Natural Industrial Center of Iowa". This modern city with its many fine buildings and well-equipped schools, is noted for its wide pleasant streets and boulevards shaded with thousands of trees.--t.p. verso. Construction of the Marshall County Courthouse began in 1884 and was finished in 1886 costing $150,000. The courthouse is listed in the National Register of Historic Places. Located at 1 East Main Street, Marshalltown, Marshall County, Iowa. Number 20200. Series 4.
Date Created: 1950
PID: grinnell:13720

Title: Court house, Atlantic, Iowa, Cass County Court House, Cass County Courthouse
Description: Looking northwest at the Cass County Court House. The fourth and final courthouse constructed of Indiana limestone and standing three-stories high cost $119,000. It was dedicated on December 26, 1934. It was one of 10 county courthouses built in Iowa during the New Deal Era as part of the federal Public Works Administration. Located at 5 West Seventh Street, Atlantic, Cass County, Iowa, Listed in the National Register of Historical Places. Number M-424.
Date Created: 1950
PID: grinnell:13440

Title: Poweshiek County Courthouse, Poweshiek County Court House, Court house, Montezuma, Iowa
Description: Looking southeast. The Poweshiek County Courthouse was built in 1857 costing $21,928.15 and is one of the oldest courthouses in Iowa. Listed in the National Register for Historic Places. Number N-326.
Date Created: 1950
PID: grinnell:13540

Title: Dale Wolfe Early Life in His Own Words
Description: Autobiographical account of the life of Dale Wolfe from his birth in 1931 in Malcom, Iowa, until 1950 when he was released from the Army. He describes his life growing up during the depression and the various farm jobs he held before he entered the military. Others mentioned in the account are Virgil Taylor, Harold Wallace, La Vern Helm, Ray Puls, and Paul Thomson.
Date Created: 1950
PID: grinnell:17376