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Title: Vel-Hi Kennels Float in 1949 Grinnell Day Parade
Description: The Vel-Hi Kennels parade float in the 1949 Grinnell Day Parade in Grinnell Iowa. Vel-Hi Kennels bred and showed boxers and two of their dogs can be seen on the float along with two people, probably Velma Hiser and her husband George Hiser, the owners of the kennels. Drake Community Library (Grinnell, Iowa) Archives. Chamber of Commerce Slides, p.7, slide 13.
Date Created: 1949
PID: grinnell:19298

Title: Velma Hiser Interview, Voices from the Past
Description: Velma Bissell Hiser, born July 10, 1904, graduated from Dexter (Iowa) High School, attended Grinnell College and graduated from Northwestern University. She received her M.S. degree from the University of Iowa. She taught at Grinnell College from 1937 until her retirement. For a time, she and her husband managed the Monroe Hotel. Breeding and showing of Boxer dogs was a major interest of hers.
Date Created: 1992
PID: grinnell:23316

Title: Veterans of Foreign Wars Parade Car in 1949 Grinnell Day Parade
Description: The Veterans of Foreign Wars parade car in the 1949 Grinnell Day Parade in Grinnell, Iowa. The car is green and yellow decorated with red and white streamers with several small American flags. Drake Community Library (Grinnell, Iowa) Archives. Chamber of Commerce Slides, p.7, slide 11.
Date Created: 1949
PID: grinnell:19296

Title: View of Bates Flowers' Float in 1949 Grinnell Day Parade
Description: A view of the Bates Flowers' parade float in the 1949 Grinnell Day Parade in Grinnell, Iowa. The Congregational (Old Stone) Church is visible in the background. Drake Community Library (Grinnell, Iowa) Archives. Chamber of Commerce Slides, p.7, slide 20.
Date Created: 1949
PID: grinnell:19305

Title: Virgil Jones Interview, Voices from the Past
Description: Born in Grinnell on September 10, 1912, Virgil graduated from high school and attended Grinnell College for a time. He worked in retail sales and traveled for the Grinnell Shoe Company. After service in the Navy during World War II, he and his wife, the former Ona Whitaker, joined in the operation of the Grinnell Livestock Exchange until 1973.
Date Created: 1992
PID: grinnell:23307

Title: Vocational Education Float in 1948 Grinnell Day Parade
Description: A parade float for "vocational education: homemaking, agriculture" in the 1948 Grinnell Day Parade in Grinnell, Iowa. The float is wooden with a woman in white next to a picnic table with corn shocks behind her. On the other side of the corn shocks are three men holding a navy and yellow banner and farm tools. The float is pulled by a man in a white shirt on a tractor. Drake Community Library (Grinnell, Iowa) Archives. Chamber of Commerce Slides, p.1, slide 17.
Date Created: 1948
PID: grinnell:19237

Title: Wagon Filled with Hay and People in the 1949 Grinnell Day Parade
Description: Wagon with thirteen people in it sitting on hay in the 1949 Grinnell Day Parade in Grinnell, Iowa. The wagon is pulled by a float with two men on it standing around a table. Part of a banner is visible on the float and it reads: "Education" while the banner on the wagon reads: "Recreation." Drake Community Library (Grinnell, Iowa) Archives. Chamber of Commerce Slides, p.4, slide 4.
Date Created: 1949
PID: grinnell:19271

Title: Waiting for President Truman
Description: Grinnellians gathered at the railroad crossing at Park Street and 3rd Avenue on September 18, 1948, waiting for President Truman. Grinnell Railway Express building is visible on the left; Monroe Hotel is visible in the background. Note: Photo is mislabeled "Waiting for President Eisenhower." Drake Community Library (Grinnell, Iowa) Archives. McNally photographs. Collection #1, Series #1-3.
Date Created: 1948
PID: grinnell:6178

Title: Wallace Breniman With His Horses and Wagon
Description: Wallace Breniman farmed with horses. He is pictured with a team of horses and a high-sided wagon.
Date Created: 1940
PID: grinnell:27253

Title: Walter Rixen Interview, American Beliefs and Cultural Values
Description: Walter Rixen was born in Harlan, Iowa, and graduated from Harlan High School in 1941. He attended Upper Iowa University for one year before serving in the U.S. Army from 1943-1945. Upon returning home he completed his degree at Upper Iowa and then pursued a career in education, teaching and coaching at Waukon, St. Ansgar, and Grinnell. He and his wife, Helen, had one son, Jim. 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:26716