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Title: Broyles Farm in Winter
Description: The Charles Broyles farm near Barnes City, Iowa, in winter, probably in the 1920s. Cattle are in a fenced yard in the foreground, a huge woodpile is stacked near several outbuildings and the farmhouse is visible in the rear right.
Date Created: 1920
PID: grinnell:12079

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: Butt and Farmer Families in Ewart
Description: Family photograph taken in Ewart circa 1928. Front row: Julia Sharer, Leola Bennett Donai, Vera Bennett Rowe, Anthony Butt, (Donald Farmer, Helen Runnells, Dwight Burch - children in front), John Butt, Mildred Butt, Edith Farmer Bennett, Enola Burch, Esther Burch, Opal Burch, Norman Farmer, Joseph Farmer, Mattie Farmer Burch, Will Butt (Shorty). On the porch: Lewis Farmer, Arthur Sharer, Stella Farmer, Alva Burch, George Bennett, Rosa Farmer Cox, Jim Cox, Burrson Farmer.
Date Created: 1928
PID: grinnell:27214

Title: Camping at Lewis Springs
Description: Postcard view of men, women, and children posed in front of a tent while camping at Lewis Springs on August 20-23, 1909. Charles Austin Palmer is second from the left. His fiance, Nora Belle Brown is third from the left. Lewis Springs is possibly Cold Spring at Lewis, Iowa. Velox stamp box on postcard.
Date Created: 1909
PID: grinnell:11934

Title: Cattle in Winter
Description: Cattle and pigs on the Harry Ryan farm in Sheridan Township in the early 1950s. Snow-covered fields are in the background as is a windmill.
Date Created: 1950
PID: grinnell:29803

Title: Chester Center Store
Description: Photograph of Chester Center Store in Chester Township, Iowa, which was destroyed by fire in 1939. Pictured are H. G. Sutton, Beck Sutton, Mildred Sutton, and Aline Lidtka Petersen. Photograph was taken in the late 1920s
Date Created: 1920
PID: grinnell:3370

Title: Chester Church
Description: Photograph of the Chester Church in its original location in Chester Township, Iowa. Originally a Congregational Church, it was given in 1996 to the congregation of St. Paul's Episcopal Church in Grinnell, Iowa. St. Paul's paid for the structure's relocation to its present site on State Street and 6th Ave. This photograph dates from the early part of the 20th century.
Date Created: 1900
PID: grinnell:3369

Title: Chester School #5
Description: Photograph of Chester School #5, in Chester Township, Poweshiek County, Iowa. It was the only two-room rural school: one room was elementary and the other was a two-year high school. The school faced south; the west windows were on the high school side.
Date Created: 1930
PID: grinnell:3389

Title: Chester School #6 Class Photo
Description: Photograph of the shoolchildren attending Chester School #6in Poweshiek County, Iowa, during the 1938-1939 school year. Back Row: Billy Campbell, Lavern Olson, Ruth Schroeder, Raymond Olso, Gene Campbell. Middle Row: Billy Schroeder, Albert Graff, Arlene Graff, Paul Ahrens, Raymond Ahrens. Front Row: Delores (?) Graff. Photograph was taken in 1938.
Date Created: 1938
PID: grinnell:3392

Title: Child at Fence
Description: Photograph of Karen Petersen as a small child looking through the fence at farmland. She is holding a cloth doll. Contributed by Karen Petersen Groves.
Date Created: 1940
PID: grinnell:3378