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Title: Harvestore Installation Report
Description: Harvestore installation report from A.O. Smith (now called CST in 2021) dated September 12, 1960, for a 17-40 Harvestore on the Raymond Pilgrim farm near Grinnell, Iowa. The report indicates the crop to be stored is corn, the farm is 160 acres, and 60 beef cattle and 400 hogs are raised on the farm. A grain auger was also installed.
Date Created: 1960
PID: grinnell:30054

Title: Helicopter
Description: Helicopter from which Dave Heise took aerial photos of Grinnell in 1967.
Date Created: 1967
PID: grinnell:6399

Title: Henry Smith in Conversation
Description: Henry Smith talking with another man, probably at a Grinnell College reunion in the 1960s.
Date Created: 1960
PID: grinnell:35530

Title: Henry and Winnie
Description: Henry Smith standing and holding a coffee cup, Winnie Hancock seated, probably the Smith residence in Chicago.
Date Created: 1960
PID: grinnell:35487

Title: High School, Grinnell, Iowa
Description: A view of Grinnell High School, built in 1961 in Grinnell, Iowa. Drake Community Library (Grinnell, Iowa) Archives. Miscellaneous photographs. Collection #20, Grinnell Schools.
Date Created: 1961
PID: grinnell:18878

Title: Horsemen in Parade
Description: Mounted riders holding American flags ride horses on the streets of Grinnell, Iowa, September 12, 1965. Possibly a homecoming parade. Riders from left to right: Francis George Klaus, unidentified, unidentified, Earl "Tuffy" Gilbreaith, unidentified. Drake Community Library (Grinnell, Iowa) Archives. Miscellaneous photographs. Collection #17-6, People.
Date Created: 1965
PID: grinnell:13100

Title: Iowa Department of Transportation Building, Grinnell
Description: View of the Iowa Department of Transportation building which was located on the east side of West Street in Grinnell, Iowa and was south of the intersection of West and Marvin Avenue. Drake Community Library (Grinnell, Iowa) Archives. Miscellaneous photographs. Collection #17-2, Grinnell Buildings.
Date Created: 1960
PID: grinnell:12826

Title: Isadore Berman Interview, Voices from the Past
Description: 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.
Date Created: 1992
PID: grinnell:23300

Title: Jim George Interview, American Beliefs and Cultural Values
Description: 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.
Date Created: 1993
PID: grinnell:26719

Title: John Parish Interview, Voices from the Past
Description: 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.
Date Created: 1992
PID: grinnell:23311