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1321 Main Street in 1948
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Description
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Two views of 1321 Main Street, Grinnell, Iowa, taken by Paul G. Kuntz in 1948 when he and his family moved in. The woman in the photos is Harriete H. Kuntz. Paul Kuntz was a philosophy professor at Grinnell College from 1948 until 1966. Sitting in the driveway is a 1939 Ford.
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Date Created
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1948
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PID
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grinnell:30345
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Title
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1946 Farm Record, 1947 Farm Record
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Description
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Farm record book published by C.A. Bacon, Hillsdale Michigan. This volume, published for 1946, has "1947" hand-written on the cover and contains records for the Raymond S. Pilgrim farm which was located in the northeast quarter of Section 27 of Grant Township in Poweshiek County, Iowa. The tables in the book are keyed to the federal income tax schedules. Schedules included are: Livestock bought and sold; sale of produce; labor expense; feed, seed, and supplies purchased; machines hired; repairs and maintenance; fertilizer; fuel and oil; interest paid; electricity and telephone; freight and trucking; veterinary and medicine; taxes paid; insurance; storage hired; rent of other lands and buildings; other miscellaneous expenses; depreciation of buildings, machinery, livestock, fences and drains; other income and other deductible expenses.
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Date Created
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1947
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PID
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grinnell:30010
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Title
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1948 Farm Record
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Description
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Farm record book published by C.A. Bacon, Hillsdale Michigan. This volume, published for 1948, contains records for the Raymond S. Pilgrim farm which was located in the northeast quarter of Section 27 of Grant Township in Poweshiek County, Iowa. The tables in the book are keyed to the federal income tax schedules. Schedules included are: Livestock bought and sold; sale of produce; labor expense; feed, seed, and supplies purchased; machines hired; repairs and maintenance; fertilizer; fuel and oil; interest paid; electricity and telephone; freight and trucking; veterinary and medicine; taxes paid; insurance; storage hired; rent of other lands and buildings; other miscellaneous expenses; depreciation of buildings, machinery, livestock, fences and drains; other income and other deductible expenses.
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Date Created
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1948
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PID
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grinnell:30011
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Title
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911 High Street
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Description
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911 High Street in Grinnell, Iowa, built by Ed Bohstedt in 1940.
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Date Created
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1940
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PID
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grinnell:21187
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Title
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Address Roster of the 335th Signal Company
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Description
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Address roster of personnel in the 335th Signal Company in 1945. The list contains the names and home towns of the men in the picture of the company (see https://digital.grinnell.edu/islandora/object/grinnell%3A6516)
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Date Created
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1945
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PID
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grinnell:6515
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Title
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Administration Bldg., Grinnell College, Grinnell, Iowa -- 9, Chicago Hall
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Description
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Postcard view of the administration building (Chicago Hall) at Grinnell College in Grinnell, Iowa. Postcard published by E.C. Kropp Company, Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Drake Community Library (Grinnell, Iowa) Archives. Miscellaneous photographs. Collection #17-3, Grinnell College.
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Date Created
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1940
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PID
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grinnell:11806
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Title
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Aerial View Of Downtown Grinnell 1940s
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Description
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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.
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Date Created
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1940
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PID
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grinnell:27169
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Title
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Al Ahrens Family
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Description
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Photograph of the Al Ahrens family in about 1940. Esther Ahrens is holding baby Jim Ahrens. Al Ahrens is on the right. The picture was possibly taken on the Ahrens family farm which was one mile east of Grinnell.
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Date Created
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1940
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PID
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grinnell:12917
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Title
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Alex Moffett Interview, American Beliefs and Cultural Values
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Description
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Alex Moffett was born in 1905 in Suzhou, China, to missionary parents. He lived in China until 1923 when he attended Washington & Lee in Virginia for college and then went on to Vanderbilt for medical school. He and his wife, Virginia, returned to China in 1935 where they did medical missionary work until 1940, including during the Sino-Japanese war. After returning to the U.S., he had a private practice in Taylorsville, North Carolina, for twenty-nine years. Interview conducted as part of American Beliefs and Cultural Values, an American Studies class taught by Hanna Griff at Grinnell College in 1993.
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Date Created
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1993
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PID
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grinnell:26717