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Otherside Supper Club and Pagliai's Pizza
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Description
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The Otherside Supper Club and Pagliai's Pizza at 816 Fifth Avenue in downtown Grinnell, Iowa. Drake Community Library (Grinnell, Iowa) Archives. Main Street Slides, p.35, slide 10.
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Date Created
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1987
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PID
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grinnell:21651
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Title
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Penquite Motel
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Description
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Flier for the Penquite Motel, located on the corner of 6th Avenue and Penrose Street in Grinnell, Iowa, advertising rooms for a bowling tournament to be held in Grinnell from February 17 to March 24 probably in 1961. Fern and Gene Freeborn bought the Penquite Motel in 1961 and changed the name to Freeborn Motel shortly thereafter.
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Date Created
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1961
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PID
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grinnell:12204
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Title
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Peoria Gateway
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Description
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Views of Peoria Gateway locomotives running on the various train tracks in Grinnell, Iowa. Photos taken by Joe Piersen in October 1959. Drake Community Library (Grinnell, Iowa) Archives. Miscellaneous photographs. Collection #17-5, Views of Grinnell.
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Date Created
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1959
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PID
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grinnell:12475
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Title
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Quadrangll, Grinnell, IA. -- 734, Quadrangle, Grinnell, IA. -- 734
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Description
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Postcard view of the women's dormitories on the southeast corner of the Grinnell College campus in Grinnell, Iowa. Mears Cottage is to the left and Main Hall is to the right. Drake Community Library (Grinnell, Iowa) Archives. McNally photographs. Collection #1, Series #1-1.
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Date Created
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1910
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PID
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grinnell:6337
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Title
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Story of an Old Settler
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Description
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Newspaper clipping of article written by Jennie Bailey (1858-1937) about her father, James Bailey (1815-1888), and mother, Cornelia Doolittle Bailey (1824-1893) and their life in early Grinnell. James Bailey was an Abolitionist and his home was a station on the Underground Railroad. Other people mentioned include Alfred Bailey, Lorenzo Bailey, Joanna Bailey Baggs, and Dennis and Clark Thompson. Topics discussed include the first saw mill in Grinnell, the Bailey House hotel, the Sugar Creek war, and prairie flora.
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Date Created
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1930
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PID
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grinnell:5828
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Title
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Tarleton Family in Grinnell
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Description
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The Tarleton family poses outside the family home at 815 Seventh Avenue in Grinnell, Iowa, in 1958. From left to right, Gladys Schoonover Tarleton, Cynthia Palmer, Carolyn Palmer (sitting in tire), Dorothy Tarleton Palmer, and Ben Tarleton.
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Date Created
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1958
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PID
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grinnell:12035
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Title
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Tyranny of Tears
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Description
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Theater program. Drama League of America, Grinnell Centre, reading rehearsal The Tyranny of Tears, a comedy in four acts by Haddon Chambers. High School Auditorium, Grinnell, Iowa, January 31, 1921. Cast: William H. Bridge, Cutler McGrew, Harold L. Beyer, Naomi Bordwell, Mrs. William H. Bridge, Stella Carse. Drake Community Library Archives. Early Theater Productions. Collection #100.
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Date Created
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1921
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PID
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grinnell:6119
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Title
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Union, Grinnell College, Grinnell, Ia. S-204, Union, Grinnell College, Grinnell, Iowa S-204
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Description
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Postcard view of the student union at Grinnell College in Grinnell, Iowa. Postcard is stamped on verso: L.L. Cook Company. Drake Community Library (Grinnell, Iowa) Archives. Miscellaneous photographs. Collection #17-3, Grinnell College.
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Date Created
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1950
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PID
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grinnell:11799
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Title
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Thomas P. Matteson 1821-1890
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Description
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Portrait photograph of Thomas P. Matteson (1821-1890) at about age 60. Matteson married Alta Ingersoll in 1842 and had two children, Frank L. and Nelle Matteson Fuller. He enlisted in the 36th Illinois Infantry as Fife Major during the Civil War. Additional information on the back of the photograph identifies his children, son Frank L. Matteson and daughter Nelle Matteson Fuller, and grandson Fay Matteson, husband of Mabel Davidson.
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Date Created
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1881
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PID
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grinnell:23213
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Title
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Three Children at a Sand Table
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Description
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Three children playing at a sand table at the Grinnell Community Daycare Center in Grinnell, Iowa. Drake Community Library (Grinnell, Iowa) Archives. Imagine Grinnell Slides, p.29, slide 10.
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Date Created
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1988
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PID
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grinnell:20489