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Title: $25.00 Reward
Description: Postcard sent by the Montezuma, Iowa, Chief of Police and the Northwestern National Insurance Company to the Sheriff's Office in Leon, Iowa, offering a $25.00 reward for information leading to the recovery of a 1932 Nash Sedan which was stolen in Montezuma on February 17, 1934. The postcard is postmarked February 21, 1934, Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
Date Created: 1934
PID: grinnell:12530

Title: 1018, 1020 and 1024 Fifth Avenue, 1018, 1020 and 1024 5th Avenue
Description: Two views of 1018, 1020 and 1024 Fifth Avenue in Grinnell, Iowa. 1018 is on the right, 1020 in the middle, and 1024 on the left. These houses which were on the south side of Fifth Avenue between Park and State Streets were razed for the construction of Drake Community Library in 2009. These photos were probably taken in the 1990s. Drake Community Library (Grinnell, Iowa) Archives. Miscellaneous photographs. Collection #17-2, Grinnell Buildings.
Date Created: 1990
PID: grinnell:11769

Title: 1127 Broad Street
Description: Winter postcard view of 1127 Broad Street in Grinnell, Iowa. This was the home of Walter Hammond and Hattie Child Hammond. The house was built in 1900 from George F. Barber's design #128, published in The Cottage Souvenir #2, revised and enlarged, 1892. A fire destroyed the house on January 18, 2013. Azo stamp box on verso with four triangles pointing up.
Date Created: 1904
PID: grinnell:20421

Title: 120 Main Street
Description: Duplex at 120 Main Street, Grinnell, Iowa, built by Bohstedt Construction in 1990.
Date Created: 1992
PID: grinnell:21197

Title: 124 Main Street
Description: House at 124 Main Street in Grinnell, Iowa, built by Bohstedt Construction in 1989.
Date Created: 1992
PID: grinnell:21198

Title: 1325 West Street
Description: Three views of 1325 West Street in Grinnell, Iowa. The house was built by Ed Bohstedt in 1952. View 2 shows the home during the March 1959 blizzard.
Date Created: 1952
PID: grinnell:21183

Title: 1407 Sixth Avenue, Under the Elms
Description: View of 1407 Sixth Avenue in Grinnell, Iowa. Verso of photo reads: "Under the elms -- March 15, 1901 -- 1407 Sixth Ave., Grinnell." Additional notes on verso read: "Hobart carload lumber from Chicago. 1882 first coat of paint night before cyclone. Chicken feathers driven into wood. House had to be scraped. Used as hospital for injured. Dead bodies taken to house." The Grinnell Cyclone was on June 17, 1882. Drake Community Library (Grinnell, Iowa) Archives. Miscellaneous photographs. Collection #17-5, Views of Grinnell.
Date Created: 1901
PID: grinnell:12274

Title: 15127 Newcomer Avenue, Newburg, Iowa
Description: Home at 15127 Newcomer Avenue in Newburg, Iowa, (mailing address is Grinnell, Iowa) built by Charles Austin Palmer.
Date Created: 2008
PID: grinnell:12023

Title: 1907 Ford Model S Automobile
Description: Photograph of a 1907 Ford Model S car which belonged to Bill Lidtka who lived near Grinnell, Iowa. Photograph has identification "Uncle Bill Lidtka's car". The car is in front of a farm house.
Date Created: 1907
PID: grinnell:3379

Title: 1953 Iowa Corn Picking Contest Winners
Description: Jack Waterbeck, fourth from the left holding plaque, after winning the 1953 two-row division Iowa corn picking contest. The contest was held in a field north of Blairstown and was sponsored by WMT Radio. Mr. Waterbeck had a new International Harvester corn picker on an International Harvester Super MTA tractor. Mr. Waterbeck, from Hartwick, Iowa, went on to take third place nationally.
Date Created: 1953
PID: grinnell:27221