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Title: Building Road in Iowa
Description: Jacob Martin ("Jake") Norris, with paper in his hand, stands with a road building crew in Poweshiek County, Iowa. Numerous teams of horses and mules hitched to road building equipment are working on a steep hill.
Date Created: 1900
PID: grinnell:12471

Title: Carnegie Library, Carnegie Hall
Description: Looking northeast at the front steps of Carnegie Library. An Andrew Carnegie library built in 1904 for $50,000. Number 929.
Date Created: 1920
PID: grinnell:13909

Title: Crop Planning Notebook
Description: Hand drawn maps of farm fields (with measurements) of Poweshiek County, Iowa, area farms created by Raymond S. Pilgrim. Indicates crops planted in each field for 1935 and 1936. Farms mapped include the following: Wm. Morrison farms, sec. 24 and 25; Al Martinson; H.W. Erickson, sec. 24; Vaughn; E.M. Hillman (sec. 25); Newton Tyson (Carl Snyder, operator) sec. 23; G.C. Murray (Ellard Broders, operator) sec. 26; Lewis Buchneau; C.M. Pilgrim; Ed Bohstedt; Ed Bohstedt (Taylor Place); Flannagan; Russell Windburn; Harold Renaud (Gun club); Airport farm; Leo Donohoe; Fred J. Anderson; Bledsoe; J.F.R.; Arthur J. Hansen; H.H. Rix; Harold Renaud; E.T. Evans; Lang; C.T. Evans (Frisbie); Paul Ester; B.A. Adams; Kogar; and Renbarger. Some blank pages were not scanned.
Date Created: 1935
PID: grinnell:18904

Title: Deed for land, signed by J. B. and J. A. Grinnell, January 1, 1859
Description: Deed for Land, signed by J. B. and J. A. Grinnell. WARRANTY DEED SIGNED 1 January 1859 RECORDED 5 January 1859. Land sold to Electa C. Cook.
Date Created: 1859
PID: grinnell:12311

Title: Don Smith Interview
Description: This is an oral history interview of Mr. Don Smith, Professor Emeritus of History at Grinnell College. The interview, conducted by Ms. Judy Hunter, recalls many of Don's memories regarding the Democratic party and the political climate in Poweshiek County, Iowa, from 1970 to 2013.
Date Created: 2013
PID: grinnell:19501

Title: Eighth Grade Rural Commencement
Description: Program for the eighth grade commencement exercises for the Poweshiek County, Iowa, rural schools held on Sunday, May 27, 1934, at the Montezuma High School auditorium. The program includes a list of names of graduates arranged by township. Emma P. Denham was the county superintendent of schools.
Date Created: 1934
PID: grinnell:12459

Title: Erastus Snow house, Northeast corner of Sixth Avenue and Penrose Street
Description: Photograph of the Erastus Snow residence, a Romanesque brick house that was probably built in the 1860s. The house is no longer standing.
Date Created: 1903
PID: grinnell:3263

Title: Farm Bureau Fun Night, Farm Bureau Spirit Song
Description: Program for the Poweshiek County Farm Bureau Fun Night. Lists the cast of the play, "The Nervous Wreck," and includes the text of the Farm Bureau Spirit Song.
Date Created: 1935
PID: grinnell:30031

Title: Fifth Avenue and Park Street, 1011 Park Street, H. G. Little residence, Site of Grinnell House, Grinnell College
Description: Photographs of the Italianate house at the northwest corner of Fifth Avenue and Park Street built in the late 1850s by H. G. Little.
Date Created: 1850
PID: grinnell:3264