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Title: Augusta Pederson Interview, Voices from the Past
Description: 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.
Date Created: 1992
PID: grinnell:23313

Title: Hospital Receipt
Description: Receipt made out to Mr. Hilliard Turner for hospital services during operation in May 1940.
Date Created: 1940
PID: grinnell:3352

Title: Hospital Receipts, Receipts for hospital expenses for childbirth and operation.
Description: The hospital bill is for the delivery of Hilliard and Eldora Turner's first child, Virginia (Turner) Ahrens. (Information from Laura (Turner) Poole who has her grandpa's scrapbook with several original receipts from that time era.)
Date Created: 1940
PID: grinnell:3350

Title: Hospital Receipts
Description: Hospital receipts for delivery and baby care from the Grinnell hospital in 1943 and 1962.
Date Created: 1943
PID: grinnell:3353

Title: How to Mail a Letter Containing Cash
Description: Description of how to mail a letter containing cash in 1896. The envelope is addressed to H.M. Rickard at I.A.C. (Iowa Agricultural College) in Ames, Iowa. This was written by a grandmother for her grandchildren. The description includes information about Martin Rickard and Anna Margaret Turner.
Date Created: 1896
PID: grinnell:3346

Title: Ledger of the Julia Chapin Grinnell Maternal Association, Julia Chapin Grinnell Maternal Association Ledger
Description: The Julia Chapin Grinnell Maternal Association was established in 1902 with membership open to anyone interested in the training of children or in "preparation for motherhood." Meetings and lectures were sponsored with local school teachers and lists of children's names compiled so that the membership might pray for them in their birth months. The Ledger contains the constitution, list of members, and minutes from September 1902 - January 1910. A list of names with years in the back may be the list of children's names described above. Drake Community Library (Grinnell, Iowa) Archives. Collection #76.
Date Created: 1902
PID: grinnell:5212

Title: Letter from Alvin Robert Rickard, January 5, 1891
Description: Letter from Alvin Robert Rickard to his brother, dated January 5, 1891. Tells about Christmas gifts, going to school, the weather, a wedding, riding the train, and encouraging his brother to write his parents more often.
Date Created: 1891
PID: grinnell:3345

Title: Letter to Henry Rickard from Jennie Max
Description: Letter from Jennie Max in Grinnell, Iowa, to Henry Rickard in Iowa, Louisiana, dated January 9, 1891. Envelope is postmarked January 10, 1891, in Chester Centre, Iowa.
Date Created: 1891
PID: grinnell:5809

Title: Letter to Henry Rickard from his Brother Alvin Rickard
Description: Letter from Alvin Robert Rickard in Grinnell, Iowa, to his brother, Henry Rickard, in Iowa, Louisiana dated January 5, 1891. The envelope is postmarked January 6, 1891. In the letter Alvin discusses classes he is taking in school, the weather, gifts he received for Christmas, a wedding he attended, and a party he went to near Stanwood, Iowa.
Date Created: 1891
PID: grinnell:5810

Title: Martin Pearce Interview, Voices from the Past
Description: Born February 8, 1916, Martin grew up and farmed in the Westfield area on the farm on which his father and grandfather had lived. For a short time he worked in the meat packing industry in Des Moines, but returned to farming until moving to Grinnell in 1992. He and his wife, Doris, had two daughters, and a son who is engaged in farming.
Date Created: 1992
PID: grinnell:23312