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Title: Chevrolet Order from Hagen Bros
Description: Order form from Hagen Bros, Grinnell, Iowa, for one Chevrolet sport sedan, dark green, to be delivered as soon as possible to Raymond Pilgrim, of Grinnell, Iowa. The salesman was C.L. Pilgrim, Raymond's brother. Dated March 31, 1934 with a total price of $774.10.
Date Created: 1934
PID: grinnell:30022

Title: Colonial Theater
Description: The Colonial Theater in Grinnell, Iowa, with its windows boarded up.
Date Created: 1965
PID: grinnell:11906

Title: Come Back Cafe
Description: Come Back Cafe in Grinnell, Iowa. It was located on Commercial Street in what is currently (2014) the parking lot to the south of Grinnell State Bank. The window advertises "Regular Dinner" for 25 cents and "Hot Cakes" for 15 cents. Coca-Cola sign under window.
Date Created: 1900
PID: grinnell:6194

Title: Condominium Construction on Spring Street
Description: Photograph identified as "Beginning of the condominium on north Spring St" which is just south of 16th Avenue in Grinnell, Iowa.
Date Created: 1981
PID: grinnell:3381

Title: Counter Checks from Poweshiek County Banks
Description: Counter checks from a variety of Poweshiek County (Iowa) banks. Counter checks were kept at the cash register of a business. Customers could write in their bank account number and use the checks as they would a personal check. These checks have MICR (Magnetic Ink Character Recognition) codes on them which the Federal Reserve began requiring in 1967.
Date Created: 1967
PID: grinnell:12824

Title: Customer at the Hartwick State Bank
Description: Taken in 1952 at the time of the 25th anniversary of the Hartwick State Bank, Vertner Gabriel is the customer and Ken Benda and Lucille Shellenbarger are behind the counter.
Date Created: 1952
PID: grinnell:20628

Title: Customers at the Cash Registers in McNally's
Description: View of customers in line at the cash registers in McNally's Foods, probably in the 1950s. The cash registers have signs which read, "Watch these figures for change due you! Your change figured automatically!" Cigarette displays are prominent in the checkout lanes.
Date Created: 1955
PID: grinnell:11919

Title: Dinner Celebrating 35th Anniversary of Hartwick State Bank
Description: At the time of the 35th anniversary of the Hartwick State Bank (Hartwick, Iowa) there was a dinner for customers held in the basement of the Hartwick Congregational Church.
Date Created: 1962
PID: grinnell:20631

Title: Dorothy Tarleton outside Ben's Tire Shop
Description: Dorothy Tarleton sits inside of a Sieberling Cord tire outside of her father's tire shop, Ben's Tire Shop, in Grinnell, Iowa, in 1923 or 1924. Dorothy later married Philip Palmer.
Date Created: 1923
PID: grinnell:12033

Title: East Main Street, Montezuma, Iowa
Description: Looking east toward the north side of East Main Street in Montezuma, Iowa, in approximately 1920. The photo was taken from approximately the intersection of East Main Street and 5th Street. Visible are the Ford garage and H & M Auto Co.
Date Created: 1920
PID: grinnell:27196