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Title: Bill from Spaulding Manufacturing Company to the Grinnell School District
Description: Letter dated December 6, 1904, from the Spaulding Manufacturing Co. to the Grinnell (Iowa) school district billing the district for the use of rooms in the Spaulding block. The bill is marked, "Approved," with the signatures of W.T. Fuller, J.P. Lyman, and S.A. Cravath.
Date Created: 1904
PID: grinnell:11929

Title: Counter Checks from Poweshiek County Banks
Description: Counter checks from a variety of Poweshiek County (Iowa) banks. Counter checks were kept at the cash register of a business. Customers could write in their bank account number and use the checks as they would a personal check. These checks have MICR (Magnetic Ink Character Recognition) codes on them which the Federal Reserve began requiring in 1967.
Date Created: 1967
PID: grinnell:12824

Title: Grinnell Savings Bank Passbook
Description: Grinnell Savings Bank(Iowa) passbook belonging to Raymond Estel Pilgrim showing deposits made in 1918 and 1919.
Date Created: 1918
PID: grinnell:17770

Title: H.V. Griffith Business Card
Description: Business card, circa 1920, of H.V. Griffith, agent for Lennox furnaces in Grinnell, Iowa. Directory of other Grinnell businesses on verso of card.
Date Created: 1920
PID: grinnell:12031

Title: Legal Documents Relating to the Frederick Ahrens Farm
Description: Legal documents relating to the purchase of a farm in Poweshiek County, Iowa, by Frederick Ahrens in September 1893.
Date Created: 1893
PID: grinnell:12866

Title: Letter from H.R. Booknau to G.H. Hamlin
Description: Letter from H.R. Booknau to G. H. Hamlin dated May 9, 1901, in which Mr. Booknau asks Mr. Hamlin to try to acquire a farm for him north of Malcom, Iowa, for $55 per acre. The letter is on letterhead for H.R. Booknau, Dealer in Live Stock and Real Estate. Drake Community Library (Grinnell, Iowa) Archives. Pamphlet file.
Date Created: 1901
PID: grinnell:12821

Title: Letter from M.A. Sulser to George Hamlin
Description: Letter on Spaulding Manufacturing Company letterhead dated October 4, 1904, in Reardon, Washington, from M.A. Sulser to George Hamlin, Grinnell, Iowa, concerning a sale note that was due on September 27th. Drake Community Library (Grinnell, Iowa) Archives. Pamphlet file : Grinnell (Iowa) -- Business & Manufacturing -- Spaulding Manufacturing Company.
Date Created: 1904
PID: grinnell:12820

Title: McNallys' Sidewalk Superintendent's Club
Description: Sidewalk Superintendent's Club card. Issued during the construction of the new McNally's grocery store at 1021 Main Street, Grinnell, Iowa, in 1955.
Date Created: 1955
PID: grinnell:11927

Title: Patron's Account Book
Description: Patron's account book from The Creamery (J.W. Fowler, prop.) in Grinnell, Iowa. The account book contains advertising from many businesses in Grinnell. The book was the property of Harry A. Brown, R.F.D. 4, Grinnell, Iowa. The figures in the book are probably not a record of milk, cream, and butter, but of something else.
Date Created: 1906
PID: grinnell:6411

Title: Receipt for Ford Touring Car
Description: Receipt dated March 16, 1910, from the Grinnell Garage Company, Grinnell, Iowa, to Mr. George Brown for a Ford Touring car costing $950. Brown is possibly George Brown (1837-1934) who is buried in Westfield Cemetery in Poweshiek County, Iowa. The proprietors of Grinnell Garage Company were E.H. Spaulding and A.C. Dickerson.
Date Created: 1910
PID: grinnell:6412