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Title: Midwest Distributing Receipt
Description: Receipt from Midwest Distributing Co., Grinnell, Iowa, to Raymond Pilgrim for livestock vaccinations. Dated April 26, 1940.
Date Created: 1940
PID: grinnell:30026

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: Neil Smith
Description: Portrait of Neil Smith, a resident of Grinnell, Iowa, in his flight uniform. He enlisted in the United States Air Force in 1942 along with friends Gene, Ernie, and Mildred Tyree.
Date Created: 1942
PID: grinnell:18819

Title: Newborn Infant at St. Francis Hospital
Description: Newborn infant receiving a bath at St. Francis Hospital in Grinnell, Iowa, in January 1949.
Date Created: 1949
PID: grinnell:12074

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: Office of Price Administration Voluntary Service Award to William Kaloupek
Description: Voluntary Service Award presented to William Kaloupek of Grinnell, Iowa, by the Office of Price Administration for his participation in the War Price and Rationing Program. Presented on October 16, 1942.
Date Created: 1942
PID: grinnell:17366

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: Order for John Deere Tractors and Implements
Description: Order form from Farmers Implement Store, Grinnell, Iowa, for a John Deere #5 seven foot sickle mower ordered by Raymond S. Pilgrim on September 10, 1940.
Date Created: 1940
PID: grinnell:30053

Title: Paul James Renfrow in Uniform
Description: Paul James Renfrow, brother of Edith Renfrow, was a master sergeant in World War II.
Date Created: 1942
PID: grinnell:12184