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Title: Ross Ave House, Ross Avenue House
Description: The Ross Avenue House was a wine and beer saloon owned by Fred Ahrens in Cincinnati, Ohio. Fred's wife, Henrietta Hücke Ahrens is seated with their seven children in front of the saloon. Fred is standing at the right side of the family group sporting a goatee. Customers and bystanders surround them. In 1893 Fred Ahrens bought a farm in Chester Township, Poweshiek County, Iowa, and moved to Iowa with his family. In 1895, Fred Ahrens died in a farm accident.
Date Created: 1880
PID: grinnell:12910

Title: Routier's 66 Service
Description: Photograph of Routier's 66 Service station which was located on Highway 6 East in Grinnell, Iowa.
Date Created: 1958
PID: grinnell:12988

Title: Routier's 66 Service Window
Description: Close-up of the window of Routier's 66 Service station which was located on Highway 6 East in Grinnell, Iowa.
Date Created: 1959
PID: grinnell:12989

Title: Roy McNeal's Membership Card for La Soci?t? des 40 Hommes et 8 Chevaux
Description: Roy McNeal's 1922 membership card for La Soci?t? des 40 Hommes et 8 Chevaux, an organization of veterans of the US armed forces.
Date Created: 1922
PID: grinnell:27215

Title: Rudolph Bolden Renfrow in Uniform
Description: Rudolph Bolden Renfrow was a corporal in the U.S. Army during World War II. Rudolph was a brother to Edith Renfrow Smith.
Date Created: 1942
PID: grinnell:12186

Title: Rudolph Renfrow
Description: Rudolph Renfrow in the early 1920s outside his home at 411 First Avenue in Grinnell. This picture was taken just before he left Grinnell to attend the Hampton Institute in Hampton, Virginia.
Date Created: 1920
PID: grinnell:12200

Title: Rudolph and Lee Renfrow
Description: Rudolph Renfrow and his father, Lee Augustus Renfrow, in the early 1920s outside their home at 411 First Avenue in Grinnell.
Date Created: 1920
PID: grinnell:12188

Title: Rural Mail Carrier
Description: John Nathaniel Norris, a rural mail carrier in Poweshiek County, Iowa, poses next to a horse and buggy driven by his wife, Alsinda. Mr. Norris, who was blind, covered the route from Ewart to Montezuma. Alsinda drove the buggy and read the names and addresses on the mail to him. Mr. Norris is holding a mail bag.
Date Created: 1890
PID: grinnell:12430

Title: Rural Mail Carrier
Description: Photograph of Baker Chambers (rural mail carrier driving the cart) delivering mail in a horse-drawn cart to Ed Lidtka (standing) in the winter in the 1920s.
Date Created: 1920
PID: grinnell:3362

Title: Rural School
Description: View of a rural school, possibly in Poweshiek County, Iowa. School children are posing in the windows. A bell tower with a U.S. flag is flying. The flag looks to be a 45 star flag based on the configuration of the stars.
Date Created: 1900
PID: grinnell:11926