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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 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: Hallie Ryan and Helen Lamb
Description: Hallie Ryan, left, and Helen Lamb were farm women who worked in the field.
Date Created: 1970
PID: grinnell:29799

Title: Horse-drawn Wagon with Corn
Description: Photograph of two men, Tracy Lidtka and Afton Lidtka, sitting on top of a horse-drawn wagon full of corn. Photograph was probably taken in the 1930s
Date Created: 1930
PID: grinnell:3364

Title: Reverend George H. White
Description: Postcard portrait of Rev. George H. White. Rev. White was a missionary in Marash, Turkey, from 1857-1864. He was appointed pastor of the Chester Congregational Church in Poweshiek County, Iowa, in 1872, where he served until 1886, whereupon he moved to Grinnell, Iowa, and resided there for the remainder of his life. Drake Community Library (Grinnell, Iowa) Archives. Miscellaneous photographs. Collection #17-6, People.
Date Created: 1910
PID: grinnell:13062

Title: Ross Ave House, Ross Avenue House
Description: The Ross Avenue House was a wine and beer saloon owned by Fred Ahrens in Cincinnati, Ohio. Fred's wife, Henrietta Hücke Ahrens is seated with their seven children in front of the saloon. Fred is standing at the right side of the family group sporting a goatee. Customers and bystanders surround them. In 1893 Fred Ahrens bought a farm in Chester Township, Poweshiek County, Iowa, and moved to Iowa with his family. In 1895, Fred Ahrens died in a farm accident.
Date Created: 1880
PID: grinnell:12910

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