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Title: Ahrens Homestead
Description: View of the Ahrens family homestead on their Center Township, Poweshiek County, Iowa, farm.
Date Created: 1930
PID: grinnell:12911

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: Girls outside Chester School #5
Description: Female students and teacher at Chester School #5 in Poweshiek County, Iowa. From left to right: Marjory Hafkey,[unidentified], Aline Lidtka (teacher), Lorene Upchurch, and Jean Ahrens.
Date Created: 1930
PID: grinnell:3390

Title: Rural Mail Carrier
Description: Photograph of Baker Chambers (rural mail carrier driving the cart) delivering mail in a horse-drawn cart to Ed Lidtka (standing) in the winter in the 1920s.
Date Created: 1920
PID: grinnell:3362

Title: Sammy Petersen
Description: Photograph of Sammy Peterson holding a box next to the trunk of a car. Photo is labeled: "Sammy - 23 years old and newly married". Taken in 1939.
Date Created: 1939
PID: grinnell:3376

Title: Woman Sitting on Car
Description: Photograph of a woman sitting on a car in front of a farm house near Grinnell, Iowa. The photo is identified as "Aline Lidtka at Charles Deedrich home".
Date Created: 1939
PID: grinnell:3375