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Title: 1953 Labor Day Parade
Description: Looking north and west from the corner of Fifth Avenue and Broad Street in Grinnell, Iowa, during the 1953 Labor Day Parade. Merchants' National Bank is in the background. The Chamber of Commerce float and a marching band are pictured.
Date Created: 1953
PID: grinnell:20619

Title: 1953 Labor Day Parade Fourth Avenue
Description: Looking west on Fourth Avenue from the corner of Fourth and Broad Street during the 1953 Labor Day parade in Grinnell, Iowa. The rear of a Grinnell Transport truck is visible and a float from North Market is in front of Merchants' National Bank. Turner Drugs is visible in the background.
Date Created: 1953
PID: grinnell:20621

Title: 1953 Labor Day Parade Looking West on Commerical
Description: Looking west on Commercial Street from the corner of Broad and Commercial during the 1953 Labor Day parade in Grinnell, Iowa. The entrance to the Park Hotel at 815 Broad Street is visible in the background, as are the storefronts on the north side of Commercial Street. Football players in Grinnell Tiger uniforms are riding on the front of an automobile decorated with a Tiger banner.
Date Created: 1953
PID: grinnell:20624

Title: Budweiser Clydesdales in Grinnell
Description: Photo of Budweiser Clydesdale trucks parked along Broad Street adjacent to Central Park in Grinnell, Iowa. A crowd is gathered around watching the Clydesdales being unloaded into the street. View is looking north from 3rd Avenue. Stewart Library is visible in the background. The Congregational church is under construction on the northeast corner of 4th Avenue and Broad Street. Drake Community Library (Grinnell, Iowa) Archives. McNally photographs. Collection #1, Series #1-2.
Date Created: 1953
PID: grinnell:6374

Title: Chester Royal Grange Christmas Party
Description: Photos of the December 1953 Chester Royal Grange Christmas party. PDF files identify names of those in the pictures.
Date Created: 1953
PID: grinnell:6058

Title: Grinnell College Cheerleaders 1953
Description: Grinnell College cheerleaders in 1953. Front row, from left to right: Micki Westinburch, Joanne Bunge, Pat Sloan Railsback, Mary Norelius Sander. Back row: Virginia Rhoads Kingland, Jim Ploss, and Gretchen De Groot Deniger. From Joanne M. Bunge's Grinnell College student scrapbook, 1952-1956.
Date Created: 1953
PID: grinnell:12949

Title: North Side of Fourth Avenue, 1953
Description: View of the north side of Fourth Avenue, west of Broad Street, during the 1953 Labor Day parade in Grinnell, Iowa. Merchant's National Bank and signs for Turner Drugs and a cafe are visible. The Fire Department's "Old Betsy" is driving away down the street.
Date Created: 1953
PID: grinnell:20622

Title: Park Hotel in 1953
Description: View of the Park Hotel at 815 Broad Street in Grinnell, Iowa, as a parade float passes in front of it during the 1953 Labor Day parade. The float is advertising MoorMan's feed and has a hog in a pen on it as well as small boys in cowboy hats.
Date Created: 1953
PID: grinnell:20626

Title: Roasting Hot Dogs
Description: Lowell Fisher, Joanne Bunge, and Charles Cook gather around a grill in Merrill Park in Grinnell, Iowa, to roast hot dogs. From Joanne M. Bunge's Grinnell College student scrapbook, 1952-1956.
Date Created: 1953
PID: grinnell:12945

Title: Telephone Company Float in 1953 Labor Day Parade
Description: The Telephone Company float rounds the corner at the intersection of 4th Avenue and Broad Street in Grinnell, Iowa. The Gambles store is visible on the corner and Dr. E.J. Jensen's office at 835 Broad Street is also visible.
Date Created: 1953
PID: grinnell:20623