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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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Arthur McDowell Interview, Voices from the Past
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Description
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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.
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Date Created
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1992
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PID
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grinnell:23310
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Title
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Augusta Pederson Interview, Voices from the Past
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Description
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Since her birth on October 29, 1904, Augusta has lived in or near Grinnell. After her marriage to Leonard Pederson, she was his partner in farming, active in Grange and church work, and a busy homemaker and mother. She was an accomplished cook, baker, and quilter. She and her husband had three children.
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Date Created
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1992
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PID
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grinnell:23313
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Title
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Bailey Homestead, Grinnell, Iowa
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Description
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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.
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Date Created
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1940
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PID
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grinnell:5829
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Title
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Better Farm Accounting 1949, 1949 Farm Record
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Description
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Better Farm Accounting, second edition, a practical guide by Iowa State College Farm Management Specialists, prepared by Herbert B. Howell. Copyright 1946 and 1947 by the Iowa State College Press, Ames, Iowa. This volume, labeled 1949, 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. Contains tables for records of livestock production, dairy sales, egg sales, livestock sales of animals raised and bought, purchases of livestock, crop sales, miscellaneous receipts, machinery bought and sold, farm expenses, net income statement, inventories of feed and seed, inventories of livestock, net worth, and crop record and map. Summaries can be used as the basis for filing income tax returns.
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Date Created
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1949
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PID
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grinnell:30012
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Title
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Brooklyn Hatchery and Produce Receipt
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Description
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Receipt from Brooklyn Hatchery and Produce to Wallace Breniman for hens, roosters, and ducks. Dated Nov. 10, 1944.
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Date Created
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1944
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PID
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grinnell:27263
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Title
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Child at Fence
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Description
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Photograph of Karen Petersen as a small child looking through the fence at farmland. She is holding a cloth doll. Contributed by Karen Petersen Groves.
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Date Created
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1940
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PID
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grinnell:3378
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Title
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Conversations with Iowa Farmers
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Description
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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.
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Date Created
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2013
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PID
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grinnell:12986
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Title
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County Farm Bureau Dues Receipt
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Description
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Receipt from the Poweshiek County Farm Bureau (Iowa) to R.S. Pilgrim for membership dues for calendar year 1940 in the amount of $10. Dated January 4, 1940
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Date Created
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1940
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PID
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grinnell:30028