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Grinnell IMP Store Float in 1949 Grinnell Day Parade
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Description
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The Grinnell Implement Store float in the 1949 Grinnell Day Parade in Grinnell, Iowa. The float has a refrigerator and kitchen table with chairs and a woman and child. Drake Community Library (Grinnell, Iowa) Archives. Chamber of Commerce Slides, p.3, slide 19.
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Date Created
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1949
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PID
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grinnell:19260
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Grinnell Ministers' Parade Car in 1949 Grinnell Day Parade
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The Grinnell ministers' car in the 1949 Grinnell Day Parade In Grinnell, Iowa. The ministers are in a cream convertible with red, white, and blue streamers and small American flags decorating the car. Drake Community Library (Grinnell, Iowa) Archives. Chamber of Commerce Slides, p.7, slide 5.
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Date Created
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1949
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PID
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grinnell:19308
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Herrick Chapel, Grinnell College, Grinnell, Iowa -- 8
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Description
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Postcard view of Herrick Chapel on the Grinnell College campus in Grinnell, Iowa. Postcard published by E.C. Kropp Company, Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Drake Community Library (Grinnell, Iowa) Archives. Miscellaneous photographs. Collection #17-3, Grinnell College.
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Date Created
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1940
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PID
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grinnell:11803
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Horsemen in the 1949 Grinnell Day Parade
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Fifteen men on horseback in the 1949 Grinnell Day Parade in Grinnell, Iowa. Turner Pharmacy and Western Union are visible on the right. Drake Community Library (Grinnell, Iowa) Archives. Chamber of Commerce Slides, p.3, slide 16.
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Date Created
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1949
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PID
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grinnell:19258
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ISU Iron-Shaped Parade Float in 1949 Grinnell Day Parade
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An ISU parade float shaped like an iron in the 1949 Grinnell Day Parade in Grinnell, Iowa. The iron is white and the handle is black. There is one man with his head sticking out of the top of the iron dressed in a white shirt. Drake Community Library (Grinnell, Iowa) Archives. Chamber of Commerce Slides, p.7, slide 16.
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Date Created
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1949
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PID
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grinnell:19300
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Ina Sprague
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Black and white photograph of Ina Sprague (1891-1979), lifelong resident of Grinnell. Ina was principal of the Davis School for 28 years until her retirement in 1956.
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Date Created
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1940
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PID
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grinnell:23255
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Isadore Berman Interview, Voices from the Past
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Isadore Berman was born February 22, 1924. He graduated from Grinnell High School in 1941, served in WW II, earned a BA from Grinnell College in 1949 and, later, an MBA from Columbia University. He is continuing in the family scrap metal business. He and his wife, Ida, have a son and a daughter.
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Date Created
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1992
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PID
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grinnell:23300
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Jim George Interview, American Beliefs and Cultural Values
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Jim George was born and raised in Iowa receiving a degree in journalism from Coe College. He spent four years in the United States Air Force in World War II. Returning to Iowa after the war he was the editor of newspapers in Eldora, Grinnell, and Montezuma, and then worked for four years as sports information director at Grinnell College. He then took a position at Grinnell Mutual Reinsurance Company where he spent 25 years as public relations director. After retiring from GMRC he continued to work for them part time for another eight years. In 1985 he returned to Grinnell College and served as sports information director until 1999. He and his wife, Isabel, had three daughters. Interview conducted as part of American Beliefs and Cultural Values, an American Studies class taught by Hanna Griff at Grinnell College in 1993.
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Date Created
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1993
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PID
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grinnell:26719
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John Parish Interview, Voices from the Past
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The son of Dr. O.F. and Laura Parish, John was born September 23, 1904. After graduating from Grinnell College in 1927, he studied medicine at Harvard and interned at Johns Hopkins. He served in the Navy during World War II. He and his wife, Elizabeth, had three daughters.
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Date Created
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1992
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PID
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grinnell:23311
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John Pfitsch Interview, American Beliefs and Cultural Values
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John Pfitsch was born in Miraj, India, and raised in San Antonio, Fort Davis, and Pflugerville, Texas. During his youth he lived for nine years in the Civilian Conservation Corps camp at Fort Davis where his father, Alfred Pfitsch, Jr., was a medical doctor. During the summers from age 8 to 21, John attended a YMCA Boys Camp in Kerrville, Texas, where he progressed from camper to assistant director of the camp. Interview conducted as part of American Beliefs and Cultural Values, an American Studies class taught by Hanna Griff at Grinnell College in 1993.
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Date Created
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1993
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PID
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grinnell:26712