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Title: Looking East from 4th Avenue and Main Street
Description: Color postcard view of 4th Avenue in Grinnell, Iowa, looking east from the intersection of 4th Avenue and Main Street. Businesses visible include: Arnold's Shoes, Strand's Shoes, Mathews Rexall Drugs, Grinnell Insurance Agency, Grinnell State Bank, and Danish Maid Bakery, among others.
Date Created: 1960
PID: grinnell:11910

Title: Lucille Ryan Serves Coffee
Description: Lucille Ryan serves coffee to Ted Miller and Cecil Roberts on the occasion of the 35th anniversary dinner for customers of the Hartwick State Bank (Iowa) in 1962.
Date Created: 1962
PID: grinnell:20632

Title: M & M Auction Bid Card
Description: Auction bid card from M & M Auction, Inc. of Barnes City and Montezuma, Iowa. On one side is a photo of the auctioneers, William "Bill" Mason and Paul D. Mason with their pickup truck. On the other side is the auction bidders number with lines to list their purchases.
Date Created: 1960
PID: grinnell:12523

Title: Margaret Arnold Interview, Voices from the Past
Description: The daughter of Dr. O.F. and Laura Parish, Margaret was born in Grinnell on June 14, 1906. She graduated from Grinnell College and taught fourth grade in Flint, Michigan, for a short time. She owned and operated Arnold's Shoe Store in Grinnell for 53 years and retired in 1989.
Date Created: 1992
PID: grinnell:23299

Title: Monte Cafe
Description: Matchbook covers advertising the Monte Cafe in Montezuma, Iowa. Produced by the Diamond Match Co.
Date Created: 1960
PID: grinnell:12520

Title: Original Hartwick State Bank Customers
Description: The original Hartwick State Bank customers from the time the bank opened in 1927 posed for a picture at the time of the bank's 35th anniversary in 1962. Front row, from left to right: Carrie Starry, Harlan Wessel, Fritz Roth, Bill Starry, Freeman Dayton, Grace Dayton, Mary Fearneyhough, Gladys Williamson, Cliff Williamson. Second row (seated): Mrs. Bert Cleppe, Bert Cleppe, Emil DeRycke, Grace DeRycke, J.T. Benda, Wallace Ryan, Mrs. Albert Peska, Albert Peska. Back row (standing): Anna Iezek, Mrs. Louis DeRycke, Ward Fearneyhough, Alyce Vermace, Louis DeRycke, Ben Roudabush, Lucille Benda, Mr. and Mrs. Fred Martens, Charlie Ostrom, Celia and Nelson Korns, Emil DeRycke, Mary and Henry DeRycke, Godfrey Veit, Lloyd and Ruth Lambert, David McIlrath, Clarence Possehl, Joe Iezek, Fred Bees, Raymond Smith, Leonard Dee, Tom Iezek.
Date Created: 1962
PID: grinnell:20638

Title: Pagliai's Pizza
Description: Early photo of Pagliai's Pizza at 816 Fifth Avenue in Grinnell, Iowa. Drake Community Library (Grinnell, Iowa) Archives. Main Street Slides, p.35, slide 8.
Date Created: 1960
PID: grinnell:21650

Title: Poweshiek County Bank, Grinnell, Iowa
Description: Color postcard view of Poweshiek County Bank, Grinnell, Iowa. "Designed by Louis Henri Sullivan, famous as a progressive architect, and one of the few men admired by Frank Lloyd Wright. The bank is known as the "Jewel Box" of his bank designs."--postcard verso. Photo by Phil Valdez. Published by Cee-R-View Card Company, Aurora, Illinois. "V-526." Drake Community Library (Grinnell, Iowa) Archives. McNally photographs. Collection #1, Series #1-1.
Date Created: 1960
PID: grinnell:6253

Title: Poweshiek Mutual Insurance Association Annual Report 1961
Description: Annual report of the Poweshiek Mutual Insurance Association for the year ending December 31, 1961.
Date Created: 1961
PID: grinnell:30051

Title: Ridiculous Days in Grinnell
Description: Ruth Ann Clayton-Davis worked at Gibson's in Grinnell in the late 1960s to early 1970s during the summers and college breaks. She is wearing a Ridiculous Days' sales apron for Gibson's. The photo was taken on 5th Avenue looking east with a sign for McNeal's Television and Radio and the Catholic church visible in the background.
Date Created: 1968
PID: grinnell:27179