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Title: County 4-H Champ F.D.E. Float in the 1949 Grinnell Day Parade
Description: The County 4-H float in the 1949 Grinnell Day Parade in Grinnell, Iowa. The float is a truck covered in orange, white, and blue streamers and paper with a woman riding in the truck bed. Drake Community Library (Grinnell, Iowa) Archives. Chamber of Commerce Slides, p.3, slide 15.
Date Created: 1949
PID: grinnell:19257

Title: Covered 49'ers Wagon in 1948 Grinnell Day Parade
Description: A covered wagon pulled by two mules with a 49'ers sign on the side and two young men inside the wagon in the 1948 Grinnell Day Parade in Grinnell, Iowa. Drake Community Library (Grinnell, Iowa) Archives. Chamber of Commerce Slides, p.1, slide 19.
Date Created: 1948
PID: grinnell:19239

Title: Cowles Hall, Grinnell, Iowa -- 21
Description: Postcard view of Cowles Hall on the Grinnell College campus in Grinnell, Iowa. Drake Community Library (Grinnell, Iowa) Archives. McNally photographs. Collection #1, Series #1-1.
Date Created: 1942
PID: grinnell:6338

Title: Cunningham Plumbing and Heating Float in 1948 Grinnell Day Parade
Description: The Cunningham Plumbing and Heating truck from the 1949 Grinnell Day Parade in Grinnell, Iowa. The truck has an outhouse on the back with a sign that says "1849 model". Across from it is a modern toilet and a man sitting with his hand on a pistol and a deck of cards. Drake Community Library (Grinnell, Iowa) Archives. Chamber of Commerce Slides, p.2, slide 15.
Date Created: 1949
PID: grinnell:19246

Title: Darby Fieldhouse and Men's Gymnasium, Grinnell College, Grinnell, Iowa -- 13
Description: Postcard view of Darby Gymnasium on the Grinnell College campus in Grinnell, Iowa. Darby was built in 1942 and demolished in 2004. Postcard published by E.C. Kropp Company, Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Drake Community Library (Grinnell, Iowa) Archives. Miscellaneous photographs. Collection #17-3, Grinnell College.
Date Created: 1942
PID: grinnell:11802

Title: DeKalb Hybrids Parade Truck in 1949 Grinnell Day Parade
Description: The DeKalb Hybrids parade truck in the 1949 Grinnell Day Parade in Grinnell, Iowa. The truck has a man in overalls sitting on hay and a big pen with a calf and black bird in it. Drake Community Library (Grinnell, Iowa) Archives. Chamber of Commerce Slides, p.7, slide 18.
Date Created: 1949
PID: grinnell:19302

Title: Dorothy Lannom Interview, Voices from the Past
Description: Born in Cedar Rapids on November 3, 1912, Dorothy Williams came to Grinnell in 1934 as a graduate of Coe College. She taught home economics until her marriage in 1936 to G. Sharp Lannom III. She was interested in politics, and went to the Far East with the Iowa Development Commission and Iowa Governor Harold Hughes. Three of her four sons carried on the family manufacturing business.
Date Created: 1992
PID: grinnell:23308

Title: Everett Armstrong Interview, Voices from the Past
Description: Born in Chester Township on January 3, 1917, Everett moved into the city of Grinnell in 1930, where he graduated from Grinnell High School in 1935. After returning from a tour of duty in World War II, he founded Armstrong Electric from which he retired in 1980. He represented the Fourth Ward on the City Council from 1949 to 1951. He and his wife, Phyllis, were the parents of a daughter and a son.
Date Created: 1992
PID: grinnell:23298

Title: Fellows House
Description: The Jesse Fellows house at the north end of Broad Street in Grinnell, Iowa, across from Merrill Park. Construction on the house was started in 1914. Fellows was a partner in the Grinnell Washing Machine Company. Verso labeled: "A Stoll print." Drake Community Library (Grinnell, Iowa) Archives. Miscellaneous photographs. Collection #17-2, Grinnell Buildings.
Date Created: 1942
PID: grinnell:11308

Title: First Congregational Church Interior
Description: Black and white photograph showing interior view of First Congregational Church / Old Stone Church facing the altar. The large pipe organ is visible at the back, along with ribbed vaults, columns, and mezzanine railings.
Date Created: 1940
PID: grinnell:23224