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Title: Madison Township School Board Meeting Minutes, 1916-1952
Description: Minutes of the Madison Township, Poweshiek County, Iowa, school board from July 1, 1916, through March 17, 1952. Meetings were held at the White Cloud School. The board paid bills, issued bonds, set salaries, contracted for construction and maintenance of school buildings. Names of school board members present at each meeting are listed.
Date Created: 1916
PID: grinnell:18024

Title: Malcom School Photo 5th & 6th Grades, 1940
Description: Class photo of the 5th and 6th graders in Malcom, Iowa, in 1940. The student in the first row on the far right is Dale Wolfe.
Date Created: 1940
PID: grinnell:17375

Title: Martin Pearce Interview, Voices from the Past
Description: Born February 8, 1916, Martin grew up and farmed in the Westfield area on the farm on which his father and grandfather had lived. For a short time he worked in the meat packing industry in Des Moines, but returned to farming until moving to Grinnell in 1992. He and his wife, Doris, had two daughters, and a son who is engaged in farming.
Date Created: 1992
PID: grinnell:23312

Title: Max Breniman in Costume
Description: Max Breniman (age 10 or 11) in costume for his role in the Hartwick school operetta in 1949.
Date Created: 1949
PID: grinnell:27230

Title: Montezuma Consolidated School
Description: Postcard view of the Montezuma Consolidated School, Montezuma, Iowa. Azo stamp block on verso.
Date Created: 1940
PID: grinnell:12509

Title: Newburg Elevator
Description: The Newburg (Iowa) elevator in the early 1940s. The elevator was built in 1917 and demolished in 2014. Itel Gillespie and Mac (Glenn) McCarel are standing in front of the elevator. On the verso of the photo is a handwritten history of the elevator and the town which was probably written in the late 1960s. It reads: Newburg founded 1878. 100 years ago there were 2 grain elevators constructed of wood. Then in 1917-1918 a poured concrete elevator and a block warehouse were built and still in use. 3 grocery stores that burned. The present building that still stands was a grocery store, but now is an apartment house. The railroad depot was demolished about 5 years ago. A water tank furnished water to the steam engines. A stock yard was available for the farmers cattle and hogs. We had our own post office. The creamery building still stands and did a route business and part of the building used as an ice house. We once had a prosperous bank, but it closed in 1933. There have been 2 blacksmith shops, a lumber yard. The farmers owned a telephone switchboard. One of the residents owned and operated a Model T agency. At one time we had 2 churches, the Church of God and the Congregational, this is now known as the UCC. A KP hall served as community center where the women gathered to sew during World War I. The lower floor housed new farm machinery. Our school is still operating and it now serves just 6th graders and one kindergarten class. In 1964 a newly formed organization known as Newburg Community Service Association dug a 225 foot well. It serves all homes business, school and church.
Date Created: 1940
PID: grinnell:20602

Title: North Side Square, Montezuma, Ia. 160-A, North Side Square, Montezuma, Iowa
Description: Postcard view of Main Street in Montezuma, Iowa, looking west northwest from the intersection of 4th Street and Main. Visible businesses include the Monte Cafe, Rexall Drugs, United Appliance, Ross 5 & 10, Powell's Grocery, Western Auto Associate Store, the Monte theater, and Monte Drugs. Postcard published by the L.L. Cook Co., Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
Date Created: 1945
PID: grinnell:12508

Title: On Jackson Street
Description: Bob McWilliams, Hildega Heistman, and Virgil "Bud" Sherwood pose on Jackson Street in Brooklyn, Iowa, circa 1940.
Date Created: 1940
PID: grinnell:20686

Title: Pilgrim-Sherman Farm
Description: View of the Pilgrim-Sherman farm located in the northeast quarter of Section 27 of Grant Township in Poweshiek County, Iowa.
Date Created: 1940
PID: grinnell:17380

Title: Pleasant Township School Children
Description: School children in the school yard of Pleasant Township School #4 in Poweshiek County, Iowa, circa 1942. Pearl Stepp is on the right.
Date Created: 1942
PID: grinnell:12466