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Title: Baling Hay
Description: Harry Ryan baling hay in the mid-1950s in Chester Township, Poweshiek County, Iowa. He is driving an orange Allis-Chalmers tractor equipped with an umbrella, and it is pulling a hay baler. Barns, outbuildings and a windmill are visible in the background.
Date Created: 1955
PID: grinnell:29796

Title: Chester Center Store
Description: Photograph of Chester Center Store in Chester Township, Iowa, which was destroyed by fire in 1939. Pictured are H. G. Sutton, Beck Sutton, Mildred Sutton, and Aline Lidtka Petersen. Photograph was taken in the late 1920s
Date Created: 1920
PID: grinnell:3370

Title: Chester Church
Description: Photograph of the Chester Church in its original location in Chester Township, Iowa. Originally a Congregational Church, it was given in 1996 to the congregation of St. Paul's Episcopal Church in Grinnell, Iowa. St. Paul's paid for the structure's relocation to its present site on State Street and 6th Ave. This photograph dates from the early part of the 20th century.
Date Created: 1900
PID: grinnell:3369

Title: Dunham Farm Barn
Description: The barn on the Dunham farm, named Elm Grove, in Chester Township near Grinnell, Iowa. Photo shows the silo in front of the end of the barn. An automobile is in the foreground. A water pump is in the foreground.
Date Created: 1920
PID: grinnell:29978

Title: Four Small Children in a Horse-drawn Cart
Description: Photograph of four children identified as Aline Lidtka, Elaine Lidtka, Carolyn Lidtka, and Rosemarie Bollinger (in hat) sitting in a horse-drawn cart. A barn and silo are in the background. The photograph was taken in the late 1920s.
Date Created: 1920
PID: grinnell:3363

Title: Hallie Ryan and Helen Lamb
Description: Hallie Ryan, left, and Helen Lamb were farm women who worked in the field.
Date Created: 1970
PID: grinnell:29799

Title: Harry Ryan
Description: Harry Ryan stands on the steps of his Minneapolis-Moline tractor with cab, probably in the 1960s.
Date Created: 1960
PID: grinnell:29801

Title: Harvesting Oats
Description: Harry Ryan harvesting oats in Chester Township, Poweshiek County, Iowa, in the late 1960s.
Date Created: 1967
PID: grinnell:29795

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: Planting Time
Description: Harry Ryan loads seed into his 4-row John Deere corn planter in the late 1960s or early 1970s at his farm in Chester Township, Poweshiek County, Iowa.
Date Created: 1970
PID: grinnell:29798