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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: Civil War Veterans on the Courthouse Lawn
Description: Postcard photo of three Grand Army of the Republic members from Brooklyn, Iowa, relaxing on the grounds of the Poweshiek County Courthouse in Montezuma, Iowa, possibly at some sort of celebration. Left to right: Joe Karr, who drove the veterans to Montezuma; Hiram Frease, standing and holding the flag; Frank Dayton and Capt. George Phillips, both seated. Joe Karr was a dry goods merchant in Brooklyn, Iowa. The benches in front of the Karr store were favored places for Civil War veterans to sit and talk. Joe Karr, born in 1865, was not a Civil War veteran himself, although he may have been a GAR member through a relative.
Date Created: 1920
PID: grinnell:11767

Title: Community Welfare Workers, Brooklyn
Description: Members of the Brooklyn CWW Club (Community Welfare Workers). The group often put on plays and entertainments and are dressed in costume here. From left to right: Clara Johnson, Elizabeth Torrance, Abby Carmichael, Mabel Brannian, Mildred Torrance, Blanche Otto, Betty Gritsch.
Date Created: 1920
PID: grinnell:27257

Title: East Main Street, Montezuma, Iowa
Description: Looking east toward the north side of East Main Street in Montezuma, Iowa, in approximately 1920. The photo was taken from approximately the intersection of East Main Street and 5th Street. Visible are the Ford garage and H & M Auto Co.
Date Created: 1920
PID: grinnell:27196

Title: Jennie, Anna and Edna Mae
Description: Edna Mae Meldrem and Jennie and Anna Otto pose at a family gathering sitting on the running board of an automobile.
Date Created: 1920
PID: grinnell:27256

Title: Pella Historisch Museum, Pella Historical Museum
Description: View of the Pella Historical Museum in Pella, Iowa, with a man and woman in traditional Dutch costume posing in front.
Date Created: 1920
PID: grinnell:3337

Title: Reverend and Mrs. Horn and Son
Description: Reverend W. P. and Mrs. Horn and son pose in the snow. Reverend Horn was a pastor at a church in Montezuma, Iowa, in the late 1920s.
Date Created: 1920
PID: grinnell:20694

Title: Rural Mail Carrier
Description: Photograph of Baker Chambers (rural mail carrier driving the cart) delivering mail in a horse-drawn cart to Ed Lidtka (standing) in the winter in the 1920s.
Date Created: 1920
PID: grinnell:3362

Title: You Always Get the Glad Hand from Montezuma, Ia.
Description: Post card with yellow felt hand appliqued to the surface. Hand is imprinted with the words, "You Always Get the Glad Hand from Montezuma, Ia." Postcard is addressed to Vera Anderson in Grinnell, Ia., but there is no postmark.
Date Created: 1920
PID: grinnell:6249