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Title: Hartwick School Students 1949
Description: Hartwick school first or second graders, possibly both, in 1949. Teacher, Emily Hemstra Block. Students in second row from front identified as: Larry Simpson, Clyde Leimberer, Steve Ostrom, Patty Breniman, unidentified, Georgian Bloome. Third row from front, left to right: Marvin Lynn, unidentified, Karen Henry, unidentified, unidentified, Irene Scott.
Date Created: 1949
PID: grinnell:27228

Title: Hartwick Students 1947-1948
Description: Hartwick, Iowa, elementary school students in school year 1947-78. Front row, left to right: Viola Kuhn, Jim Kies, Joan Doty, Barbara DeVilder, Marvin Wauters, Max Breniman, Marvin Doty, Edna DeVilder, Elsie Christian, Janet Sue O'Halloran, Janice Smith, Phyllis Ryan, Steve Ryan. Back row, left to right: ? DeHoedt, Gayle Thistlethwaite, Ruth Kuhn, Duane Papesh, Butch Baetsle, Clarence DeHoedt, Mike Meyocks, Barbara Meeks, Barbara Benda, Merlyn McIlrath, Kenneth (Dee) Roth, Gerald Ketterling. Standing, left to right: R.L. Thistlethwaite, Mildred Bees, Hazel Williams, Emily Heimstra.
Date Created: 1947
PID: grinnell:27223

Title: Jackson Street in Brooklyn
Description: An unidentified man poses on Jackson Street in Brooklyn, Iowa, near Ford's Cafe, the Schmitz dental office, and the Beauty Shop. Circa 1940.
Date Created: 1940
PID: grinnell:20687

Title: Jackson Street in Brooklyn
Description: An unidentified man stands on Jackson Street in Brooklyn, Iowa, in the 1940s. St. Patrick Catholic Church is visible in the background.
Date Created: 1940
PID: grinnell:20683

Title: Joan
Description: Joan (last name unknown), the wartime girlfriend of Jack Eugene Pilgrim who died in an explosion upon the USS Natchez in New York City harbor in 1942.
Date Created: 1942
PID: grinnell:17381

Title: Karen Petersen on a Farmall Tractor
Description: Photograph of Karen Petersen on a Farmall tractor, dated 1944. Contributed by Karen Petersen Groves.
Date Created: 1944
PID: grinnell:3361

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: Louise Skidmore and Hilda Heistman on Jackson Street
Description: Louise Skidmore (center) and Hilda Heistman (left) on Jackson Street in Brooklyn, Iowa, circa 1940.
Date Created: 1940
PID: grinnell:20688