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Title: Hy-Vee
Description: Photograph of the Hy-Vee grocery store which was located at 120 Sixth Avenue in Grinnell, Iowa. Drake Community Library (Grinnell, Iowa) Archives. Miscellaneous photographs. Collection #17-2, Grinnell Buildings.
Date Created: 1950
PID: grinnell:12926

Title: Labor Day Celebration in Central Park
Description: Photograph of a Labor Day celebration in Central Park in Grinnell, Iowa, in 1950. People are gathered around a truck. Merchants National Bank is visible in the background.
Date Created: 1950
PID: grinnell:11912

Title: Larsen's Motel
Description: Color postcard of Larsen's Motel, which was one mile east of Grinnell, Iowa, on Highway 6, in the 1950s and 1960s. Mr. and Mrs. Don Larsen, owners and operators. Photo, art work and produced by Douglas R. Smith, Washington, D.C. Drake Community Library (Grinnell, Iowa) Archives. Miscellaneous photographs. Collection #17-2, Grinnell Buildings.
Date Created: 1950
PID: grinnell:11642

Title: Mabel Stemsrud and Mary Buchenau
Description: Mabel Stemsrud and her cousin, Mary Enerson Buchenau, in Grinnell, probably in the 1950s.
Date Created: 1950
PID: grinnell:20690

Title: Main Street between Commercial and 4th
Description: View of the west side of Main Street between Commercial Street and 4th Avenue in Grinnell, Iowa, in the mid-1950s. Duffy's Tavern (829 Main St.), established 1957, is on the right; P & M Cafe (825 Main St., run by Peg and Merl Masteller) is at the left. 827A Main Street is Rawlings TB Barber Shop. 827B Main Street was F&R Used Furniture in 1959 and C.H. King Used Furniture in 1962. Grinnell Feed and Grain is in the background at the left. Drake Community Library (Grinnell, Iowa) Archives. Miscellaneous photographs. Collection #17-2, Grinnell Buildings.
Date Created: 1950
PID: grinnell:6475

Title: Marian Dunham and Mr. Thompson
Description: Marian Dunham, librarian at Stewart Library in Grinnell, Iowa, watches as Mr. Thompson works on repairs to the Children's Room in the basement of the library, circa 1950. Drake Community Library (Grinnell, Iowa) Archives. Miscellaneous photographs. Collection #17-1, Stewart Library.
Date Created: 1950
PID: grinnell:6457

Title: Mathews' Rexall Drug Store Pharmacy Staff
Description: Pharmacy staff of Mathews' Rexall Drug Store in Grinnell, Iowa, about 1950. From left to right: Jack Crosson, Earl Mathews (owner), and Harold Stebbin.
Date Created: 1950
PID: grinnell:6183

Title: Outside the Strand
Description: Young man and young woman standing outside the Strand Theater in Grinnell, Iowa. Drake Community Library (Grinnell, Iowa) Archives. Miscellaneous photographs. Collection #17-2, Grinnell Buildings.
Date Created: 1950
PID: grinnell:6489

Title: Post Office, Grinnell, Iowa 878
Description: Postcard view of the post office in Grinnell, Iowa on the southeast corner of 5th Avenue and Broad Street. Published by L.L. Cook Co., Milwaukee, Wis. Drake Community Library (Grinnell, Iowa) Archives. McNally photographs. Collection #1, Series #1-1.
Date Created: 1950
PID: grinnell:6257

Title: Post Office, Grinnell, Iowa -- 3
Description: Postcard view of the U.S. Post Office in Grinnell, Iowa, on the southeast corner of 5th Avenue and Broad Street. Postcard published by E.C. Kropp Co., Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Drake Community Library (Grinnell, Iowa) Archives. McNally photographs. Collection #1, Series #1-1.
Date Created: 1950
PID: grinnell:6356