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Title: Aerial View of Newburg Stock Pens
Description: An aerial view of stock pens and farm outbuildings, possibly in the Newburg, Iowa area. A railroad track runs along the right side of the picture.
Date Created: 1920
PID: grinnell:12007

Title: Anson Hayden Palmer and Uncle Harry
Description: Anson Hayden Palmer and Uncle Harry show off their peach tree probably in Newburg, Iowa. A note on the back of the photo says to "notice the props,' but the peach tree eventually broke over the props.
Date Created: 1920
PID: grinnell:12015

Title: Arthur McDowell Interview, Voices from the Past
Description: One of nine children, Art was born south of Grinnell on June 22, 1902. After graduating from high school and working for three years at the Farmer's Elevator, he began his career in insurance. Upon retirement, he was Secretary-Treasurer of the Poweshiek County Mutual Insurance Company. He and his wife, Mildred, married in 1930, had a son and daughter.
Date Created: 1992
PID: grinnell:23310

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: Conversations with Iowa Farmers
Description: Frank Heath, Becca Rae-Holloway, Laurel Tuggle, and Barb Lease interviewed 30 Iowa farmers who grew up on Grinnell, Iowa, area farms in the 1920s, 1930s, and 1940s. Those interviewed included Raymond Brown, Burton Cooper and his sister Loretta Burrell, Gary and Susan Davis, Robert Dimit, Stanley Greenwald, Larry Ellis, Jean Hinegardner, Howard McDonough, Henry Harris, Bruce Henriksen, Elsie Johnston, James Harley and Patricia McIlrath, Gene and Ellen Merck, Don Milburn, Mike Mintle, Allan and Shirley Moyer, Bill and Marjorie Rempp, Ronald Riley, Boyd Sparks, Don and Doris Weaver, Frank Wheeler, Lucille Binegar Van Dyke, and Ronald Van Gennep.
Date Created: 2013
PID: grinnell:12986

Title: Elizabeth Schultz Interview, American Beliefs and Cultural Values
Description: Elizabeth Pfund was born in Jewell, Iowa. She came to Poweshiek County in 1927 as a rural school teacher. She married Ervin Schultz on Nov. 27, 1929. They raised their two children on the family farm in Malcom Township where she lived for over 65 years. She was active in 4-H, the Farm Bureau, and she served as a Sunday school teacher and in other positions at Trinity Lutheran Church. Interview conducted as part of American Beliefs and Cultural Values, an American Studies class taught by Hanna Griff at Grinnell College in 1993.
Date Created: 1993
PID: grinnell:26710

Title: Farm Union Picnic
Description: Panoramic view of attendees at the Farm Union picnic at Arbor Lake in Grinnell, Iowa, on August 27, 1926. Possibly a branch of the Iowa Farmers Union.
Date Created: 1926
PID: grinnell:27203

Title: Four Small Children in a Horse-drawn Cart
Description: Photograph of four children identified as Aline Lidtka, Elaine Lidtka, Carolyn Lidtka, and Rosemarie Bollinger (in hat) sitting in a horse-drawn cart. A barn and silo are in the background. The photograph was taken in the late 1920s.
Date Created: 1920
PID: grinnell:3363

Title: Grant Township Farm Bureau Minutes, 1925-1930
Description: Minutes of the monthly meeting of the Grant Township (Poweshiek, County, Iowa ) Farm Bureau.
Date Created: 1925
PID: grinnell:30032

Title: Haymaking at the Charles Broyles Farm
Description: Making hay, probably at the Charles Broyles farm near Barnes City, Iowa. Horse drawn wagons piled high with hay are visible as well as some sort of steam powered vehicle and a silo.
Date Created: 1920
PID: grinnell:12080