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Title: Lucas Triplets and the Lucas Family
Description: Typescript containing information on the Lucas triplets and the Lucas family of Grinnell, Iowa. Includes many anecdotes on the life of Henry Lucas who was born into slavery in Virginia which was written by his son John Brown Lucas. The typescript contains part of an article that appeared in the Grinnell Herald on May 20, 1932, and additional information.
Date Created: 1950
PID: grinnell:12202

Title: Wallace's Team
Description: Wallace Breniman's horse team, photo taken on the farm near Guernsey, Iowa. By 1950 Breniman used a tractor for most of his farming.
Date Created: 1950
PID: grinnell:27254

Title: Winter Snowstorm on the Ryan Farm
Description: Sue and Ruth Ann Ryan negotiate gigantic snowdrifts after a snowstorm on their farm in Sheridan Township, Poweshiek County, Iowa, about 1950. The family took a sled across country to the Sheridan store to buy groceries as all of the roads were blocked. The snow was so deep that one could walk over the fences.
Date Created: 1950
PID: grinnell:29804

Title: Winter on the Farm
Description: Winter view of the Harry Ryan farm in Sheridan Township in the early 1950s. The farm was close to Sheridan School #4. Cattle and pigs are visible as well as the house, barn and various outbuildings, a truck, a 1950s automobile and an Allis-Chalmers tractor.
Date Created: 1950
PID: grinnell:29802