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Title: Poweshiek County Engineer's Office Staff
Description: Staff of the Poweshiek County, Iowa, Engineer's Office pose next to an automobile which says Poweshiek County on the door. Left to right: Earl Duffus, Ben Purdum (assistant engineer), Peter Vandeventer.
Date Created: 1940
PID: grinnell:27255

Title: Poweshiek County Road Poll Tax Receipt
Description: Receipt from the Poweshiek County Road Poll Tax to Wallace Breniman for labor performed. Dated September 9, 1936.
Date Created: 1936
PID: grinnell:27265

Title: Request for Decoration and/or Citation
Description: Request for Decoration and/or Citation made by William L. Belcher on December 21, 1945, for service in World War II.
Date Created: 1945
PID: grinnell:6514

Title: Rural Mail Carrier
Description: John Nathaniel Norris, a rural mail carrier in Poweshiek County, Iowa, poses next to a horse and buggy driven by his wife, Alsinda. Mr. Norris, who was blind, covered the route from Ewart to Montezuma. Alsinda drove the buggy and read the names and addresses on the mail to him. Mr. Norris is holding a mail bag.
Date Created: 1890
PID: grinnell:12430

Title: Rural Mail Carrier
Description: Photograph of Baker Chambers (rural mail carrier driving the cart) delivering mail in a horse-drawn cart to Ed Lidtka (standing) in the winter in the 1920s.
Date Created: 1920
PID: grinnell:3362

Title: Telegram to Bernice Stemsrud
Description: Western Union telegram from the War Department to Bernice Stemsrud of Grinnell, Iowa, informing her of her appointment to a civil service position in Washington, D.C., in 1941.
Date Created: 1941
PID: grinnell:20644

Title: Poweshiek County Courthouse, Montezuma, Iowa
Description: Line drawing of the Poweshiek County Courthouse in Montezuma, Iowa, on "CustomArt" postcard published by Norman Ramsey, Cedar Rapids, Iowa.
Date Created: 1970
PID: grinnell:6241

Title: U.S. Army Plane Over Downtown Grinnell
Description: View of an U.S. Army airplane over downtown Grinnell (the Spencer building on the northeast corner of 4th Avenue and Main Street) during World War II. The pilot is identified as Grinnellian, Bob Garrigan, and the photo, dated July 29, 1942 was taken by Portrait-Art Studios, Grinnell, Iowa.
Date Created: 1942
PID: grinnell:11925

Title: USS Natchez
Description: Photograph of a naval ship tentatively identified as the USS Natchez, Jack Pilgrim's ship in World War II.
Date Created: 1942
PID: grinnell:17378

Title: United States Army 335th Signal Company
Description: Photo of the United States Army 335th Signal Company in 1944. The 335th was attached to the 52nd Troop Carrier Wing. William L. Belcher is in the third row, third from the left (of those visible). A roster of the company including the names and hometowns of those in the photo is available at https://digital.grinnell.edu/islandora/object/grinnell%3A6515. (The roster is alphabetical, it does not identify individuals in this picture.)
Date Created: 1944
PID: grinnell:6516