Search results | Digital Grinnell

Title: B. H. James Business Card
Description: Business card for B.H. James of Montezuma, Iowa, offering pump repair services.
Date Created: 1940
PID: grinnell:12518

Title: Broad St., Grinnell, Ia. S-201, Broad Street, Grinnell, Iowa
Description: Postcard view of Broad Street in Grinnell, Iowa, looking north from the intersection of Broad Street and Fifth Avenue. Postcard published by L.L. Cook Co., Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Drake Community Library (Grinnell, Iowa) Archives. Miscellaneous photographs. Collection #17-5, Views of Grinnell.
Date Created: 1940
PID: grinnell:12453

Title: Ford's Cafe
Description: Unidentified man standing outside of Ford's Cafe on Jackson Street in Brooklyn, Iowa, circa 1940.
Date Created: 1940
PID: grinnell:20682

Title: Fred Spaulding Walking down the Street in Des Moines
Description: Fred Spaulding going to sell IOS (interest-only securities) funds in Des Moines in the early 1940s. He lived on Forest Avenue in Des Moines at the time.
Date Created: 1940
PID: grinnell:5714

Title: Friends on Jackson Street
Description: Friends pose on Jackson Street in Brooklyn, Iowa, circa 1940. From left to right: Bob McWilliams, Hildega Heistman, Virgil "Bud" Sherwood.
Date Created: 1940
PID: grinnell:20684

Title: Jackson Street in Brooklyn
Description: An unidentified man poses on Jackson Street in Brooklyn, Iowa, near Ford's Cafe, the Schmitz dental office, and the Beauty Shop. Circa 1940.
Date Created: 1940
PID: grinnell:20687

Title: Lang's Milk Advertisement
Description: Newspaper clipping of Lang's milk advertisement featuring Dianne Lynn and Joni Lee Turner, children of Mr. and Mrs. Hilliard Turner, Jr., of Grinnell. Photo by Hanssen Studio.
Date Created: 1940
PID: grinnell:5808

Title: Louise Skidmore and Hilda Heistman on Jackson Street
Description: Louise Skidmore (center) and Hilda Heistman (left) on Jackson Street in Brooklyn, Iowa, circa 1940.
Date Created: 1940
PID: grinnell:20688

Title: McNally's Market
Description: View of McNally's Market in Grinnell, Iowa, with delivery vehicles and staff. Ida and Chris McNally are standing at the door. Jimmy McNally is the second from the left. Ed McNally is the third from the right.
Date Created: 1940
PID: grinnell:11918

Title: Newburg Elevator
Description: The Newburg (Iowa) elevator in the early 1940s. The elevator was built in 1917 and demolished in 2014. Itel Gillespie and Mac (Glenn) McCarel are standing in front of the elevator. On the verso of the photo is a handwritten history of the elevator and the town which was probably written in the late 1960s. It reads: Newburg founded 1878. 100 years ago there were 2 grain elevators constructed of wood. Then in 1917-1918 a poured concrete elevator and a block warehouse were built and still in use. 3 grocery stores that burned. The present building that still stands was a grocery store, but now is an apartment house. The railroad depot was demolished about 5 years ago. A water tank furnished water to the steam engines. A stock yard was available for the farmers cattle and hogs. We had our own post office. The creamery building still stands and did a route business and part of the building used as an ice house. We once had a prosperous bank, but it closed in 1933. There have been 2 blacksmith shops, a lumber yard. The farmers owned a telephone switchboard. One of the residents owned and operated a Model T agency. At one time we had 2 churches, the Church of God and the Congregational, this is now known as the UCC. A KP hall served as community center where the women gathered to sew during World War I. The lower floor housed new farm machinery. Our school is still operating and it now serves just 6th graders and one kindergarten class. In 1964 a newly formed organization known as Newburg Community Service Association dug a 225 foot well. It serves all homes business, school and church.
Date Created: 1940
PID: grinnell:20602