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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: Child at Fence
Description: 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.
Date Created: 1940
PID: grinnell:3378

Title: Elmer Urfer Farm
Description: Aerial view of the Elmer Urfer farm, rural Montezuma, in the 1940s.
Date Created: 1940
PID: grinnell:27220

Title: Mabel and Roy McNeal
Description: Portrait of Mabel and Roy McNeal
Date Created: 1940
PID: grinnell:27219

Title: Montezuma Consolidated School
Description: Postcard view of the Montezuma Consolidated School, Montezuma, Iowa. Azo stamp block on verso.
Date Created: 1940
PID: grinnell:12509

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: Pilgrim-Sherman Farm
Description: View of the Pilgrim-Sherman farm located in the northeast quarter of Section 27 of Grant Township in Poweshiek County, Iowa.
Date Created: 1940
PID: grinnell:17380

Title: Pleasant Township School Class Picture
Description: School picture at Pleasant Township School in Poweshiek County, Iowa, about 1940. The young girl in the back row, far left, is Pearl Stepp.
Date Created: 1940
PID: grinnell:12465

Title: Poweshiek County Engineer's Office Staff
Description: Staff of the Poweshiek County, Iowa, Engineer's Office pose next to an automobile which says Poweshiek County on the door. Left to right: Earl Duffus, Ben Purdum (assistant engineer), Peter Vandeventer.
Date Created: 1940
PID: grinnell:27255

Title: Sammy and Gertie
Description: Photograph of Sammy Petersen standing with Gertie, the cow, and some pigs. The cow was a wedding gift to Sammy Petersen and Aline Lidtka.
Date Created: 1940
PID: grinnell:3377