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Title: Horses and Wagons
Description: Farmers with horse drawn wagons in a field at harvest time. Kruxo postcard published by The Cottage Studio, H.S. McDonald, proprietor, Brooklyn, Iowa.
Date Created: 1920
PID: grinnell:27252

Title: Hoyt and June Veber
Description: Hoyt and June Veber, playmates of Don (1914-1980) and Paul (1915-1980) Anderson. Hoyt is wearing a buttoned shirt, belt, and rolled-up pants and June is wearing a white dress. The photograph is enclosed in a stiff paper leather-look booklet.
Date Created: 1920
PID: grinnell:23228

Title: Iowa Home Record Book for 4-H Livestock Members
Description: Jack Pilgrim's record book for his 4-H baby beef project in 1936/1937(?). He raised an Angus calf and a Hereford calf. The record book keeps track of weights of calves, quantity and cost of feed and 4-H meetings attended.
Date Created: 1937
PID: grinnell:30017

Title: Kathryn Louden Interview, American Beliefs and Cultural Values
Description: Kathryn Louden was born in Delaware County, Iowa, and grew up in Wichita, Kansas. She attended John Fletcher College in Oskaloosa, Iowa, for two years obtaining a teaching certificate, and then taught fifth and sixth grades in Newburg, Iowa. In 1942 she married Warren Louden, who farmed near Newburg; they had two children. She was active in her church, the Farm Bureau, 4-H, the Iowa Porkettes and many other organizations. 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:26711

Title: Letters Concerning Cattle Markets
Description: Two letters to Raymond S. Pilgrim of Grinnell, Iowa, concerning the state of cattle markets at the Union Stock Yards in Chicago in September 1930. One letter is from Frank R. Mullen of the Mullen Commission Co. , Chicago. The second letter, with envelope, is from E.I. Stephen, Cattle Salesman, of the Chicago Producers Commission Association.
Date Created: 1930
PID: grinnell:30057

Title: M.E. Church, Montezuma, Ia., M.E. Church, Montezuma, Iowa
Description: Postcard view of the Methodist Episcopal Church in Montezuma, Iowa. Built in 1905, the church was destroyed by a fire on Sunday, April, 30, 1939. A new church was built on the same site, 200 South 4th Street.
Date Created: 1930
PID: grinnell:12515

Title: Madison Township School Board Meeting Minutes, 1916-1952
Description: Minutes of the Madison Township, Poweshiek County, Iowa, school board from July 1, 1916, through March 17, 1952. Meetings were held at the White Cloud School. The board paid bills, issued bonds, set salaries, contracted for construction and maintenance of school buildings. Names of school board members present at each meeting are listed.
Date Created: 1916
PID: grinnell:18024

Title: Martin Pearce Interview, Voices from the Past
Description: Born February 8, 1916, Martin grew up and farmed in the Westfield area on the farm on which his father and grandfather had lived. For a short time he worked in the meat packing industry in Des Moines, but returned to farming until moving to Grinnell in 1992. He and his wife, Doris, had two daughters, and a son who is engaged in farming.
Date Created: 1992
PID: grinnell:23312

Title: Mrs. Lucy Broyles' Hampshire Boar Sale
Description: Sales flyer for Mrs. Lucy Broyles' Hampshire boar sale which was held on Saturday, October 17, 1931, in Oskaloosa, Iowa. Flyer describes each boar for sale and lists his pedigree.
Date Created: 1931
PID: grinnell:12081

Title: Perfect Attendance Certificate
Description: Certificate presented to Pearl Steppe [sic] for perfect attendance at school district #9 in Poweshiek County, Iowa, for the first six weeks of the school year 1938/39. Presented on October 14, 1938.
Date Created: 1938
PID: grinnell:12470