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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: 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: Fred Spaulding Walking down the Street in Des Moines
Description: Fred Spaulding going to sell IOS (interest-only securities) funds in Des Moines in the early 1940s. He lived on Forest Avenue in Des Moines at the time.
Date Created: 1940
PID: grinnell:5714

Title: Lang's Milk Advertisement
Description: Newspaper clipping of Lang's milk advertisement featuring Dianne Lynn and Joni Lee Turner, children of Mr. and Mrs. Hilliard Turner, Jr., of Grinnell. Photo by Hanssen Studio.
Date Created: 1940
PID: grinnell:5808

Title: McNally's Market
Description: View of McNally's Market in Grinnell, Iowa, with delivery vehicles and staff. Ida and Chris McNally are standing at the door. Jimmy McNally is the second from the left. Ed McNally is the third from the right.
Date Created: 1940
PID: grinnell:11918

Title: Newburg Elevator
Description: The Newburg (Iowa) elevator in the early 1940s. The elevator was built in 1917 and demolished in 2014. Itel Gillespie and Mac (Glenn) McCarel are standing in front of the elevator. On the verso of the photo is a handwritten history of the elevator and the town which was probably written in the late 1960s. It reads: Newburg founded 1878. 100 years ago there were 2 grain elevators constructed of wood. Then in 1917-1918 a poured concrete elevator and a block warehouse were built and still in use. 3 grocery stores that burned. The present building that still stands was a grocery store, but now is an apartment house. The railroad depot was demolished about 5 years ago. A water tank furnished water to the steam engines. A stock yard was available for the farmers cattle and hogs. We had our own post office. The creamery building still stands and did a route business and part of the building used as an ice house. We once had a prosperous bank, but it closed in 1933. There have been 2 blacksmith shops, a lumber yard. The farmers owned a telephone switchboard. One of the residents owned and operated a Model T agency. At one time we had 2 churches, the Church of God and the Congregational, this is now known as the UCC. A KP hall served as community center where the women gathered to sew during World War I. The lower floor housed new farm machinery. Our school is still operating and it now serves just 6th graders and one kindergarten class. In 1964 a newly formed organization known as Newburg Community Service Association dug a 225 foot well. It serves all homes business, school and church.
Date Created: 1940
PID: grinnell:20602

Title: Receipts
Description: Receipts made out to Hilliard Turner and Perry Turner for gasoline, sugar, and bank deposit
Date Created: 1940
PID: grinnell:3347

Title: Receipts
Description: Receipts from the Ration Board and the George and Hoyt Hardware store in the 1940s made out to Hilliard Turner.
Date Created: 1940
PID: grinnell:3348

Title: Street Scene, Grinnell, Iowa
Description: Postcard view of Fourth Avenue, Grinnell, Iowa, looking west from the corner of Fourth Avenue and Main Street. Rexall Drug on the right, 1940s vintage automobiles parked on the street. Steeple of Congregational Church visible in background.
Date Created: 1940
PID: grinnell:5938