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Title: 18th Street viaduct and bridges, Des Moines, Iowa
Description: Looking southwest from 18th Street (now Fleur Drive) at the bridge over the Raccoon River. Number 63397.
Date Created: 1940
PID: grinnell:16163

Title: Aerial View Of Downtown Grinnell 1940s
Description: Aerial view of downtown Grinnell in the 1940s. The photo looks to the east. The bottom left corner is approximately the intersection of 5th Avenue and Spring Street and extends south along West Street to approximately 3rd Avenue. The Old Stone Church, Central Park, the Glove Factory and many other buildings are visible. Drake Community Library (Grinnell, Iowa) Archives. Views of Grinnell, Aerial Images. Collection 17-5.
Date Created: 1940
PID: grinnell:27169

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: Bailey Homestead, Grinnell, Iowa
Description: Photograph of the farmhouse built by James Bailey on 11th Avenue north of Grinnell High School. Photo ca. 1940s. Currently (2014) the Habitat for Humanity house is in this location.
Date Created: 1940
PID: grinnell:5829

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: Campanile, Iowa State College, Ames, Iowa
Description: Construction of the Campanile was completed in 1898 in memoriam of Margaret MacDonald Stanton, first dean of women, and the first bells were placed in the Campanile in 1899. Later in 1920, when Mrs. Stanton's husband, Edgar W. Stanton, 4-time acting president of Iowa State University, died, the university installed a musical instrument in the structure known as the Edgar W. and Margaret MacDonald Stanton Memorial Carillon.
Date Created: 1940
PID: grinnell:14450

Title: Campanile, Iowa State Teachers College, Cedar Falls, Iowa, Iowa State Normal School, State College of Iowa, University of Northern Iowa
Description: Looking south at the UNI Campanile rising 100 feet in the air. It was ultimately the result of almost twelve years of planning and work and was completed in 1926 at a cost of approximately $51,000. When built, it stood at the geographic center of the eighty acre campus. Number 0B-H1949.
Date Created: 1940
PID: grinnell:14589

Title: Campus drive at Iowa State College, Ames, Iowa, Union Drive, Iowa State University
Description: View of the Iowa State College campus. Number 105.
Date Created: 1940
PID: grinnell:13767