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Title: Anna Ramsey Interview, Voices from the Past
Description: Anna Ramsey, the daughter of Frank and Alice Knight, was born on November 22, 1908. She graduated from Grinnell College in 1930. She married Fred Ramsey and had a son and a daughter. Before retiring, she worked as a secretary at Grinnell College.
Date Created: 1992
PID: grinnell:23315

Title: Annual Report of the Poweshiek County Farmers Mutual Insurance Association
Description: Annual report of the Poweshiek County Farmers Mutual Insurance Association for the year ending December 31, 1933, including insurance report, financial statement, disbursements and the report of the directors.
Date Created: 1933
PID: grinnell:30062

Title: Annual report of the Poweshiek County Farmers Mutual Insurance Association 1933
Description: Annual report for the year ending December 31, 1933. Includes Insurance report, financial statement, disbursements, general statement and report of the directors.
Date Created: 1933
PID: grinnell:21199

Title: Arthur McDowell Interview, Voices from the Past
Description: One of nine children, Art was born south of Grinnell on June 22, 1902. After graduating from high school and working for three years at the Farmer's Elevator, he began his career in insurance. Upon retirement, he was Secretary-Treasurer of the Poweshiek County Mutual Insurance Company. He and his wife, Mildred, married in 1930, had a son and daughter.
Date Created: 1992
PID: grinnell:23310

Title: Big Shipment of Grinnell Gloves
Description: Employees of Grinnell Gloves lined up outside the building at Broad Street and Third Avenue in Grinnell, Iowa in the 1930s. Approximately half a dozen trucks are loaded with boxes of gloves. Photo is labeled "Big shipment, Grinnell Gloves, Blue Line Transfer." Water tower in center background. Building in background to right is labeled "Ia S.U. OP" (Iowa Southern Utilities Operations?) Railroad tracks in foreground. Drake Community Library (Grinnell, Iowa) Archives. McNally photographs. Collection #1, Series #1-3.
Date Created: 1930
PID: grinnell:6153

Title: Broad Street, Grinnell, IA, B-89
Description: Postcard view looking north along the west side of the 800 block of Broad Street in Grinnell, Iowa. Merchants' National Bank is on the corner. Drake Community Library (Grinnell, Iowa) Archives. McNally photographs. Collection #1, Series #1-1.
Date Created: 1930
PID: grinnell:6235

Title: Charles Delong Interview, American Beliefs and Cultural Values
Description: Charles W. DeLong was born in Gary, Indiana, in 1910. He attended Grinnell College graduating with the Class of 1931. He was a business man who sold gloves for the glove factory, manufactured sportswear, and, later, stadium seats. He and his wife, Katherine Coggeshall, had four children. Interview conducted as part of American Beliefs and Cultural Values, an American Studies class taught by Hanna Griff at Grinnell College in 1993.
Date Created: 1993
PID: grinnell:26718

Title: Chevrolet Order from Hagen Bros
Description: Order form from Hagen Bros, Grinnell, Iowa, for one Chevrolet sport sedan, dark green, to be delivered as soon as possible to Raymond Pilgrim, of Grinnell, Iowa. The salesman was C.L. Pilgrim, Raymond's brother. Dated March 31, 1934 with a total price of $774.10.
Date Created: 1934
PID: grinnell:30022

Title: Concession Stand at the Strand
Description: Most likely a view of the concession stand at the Strand Theater in Grinnell, Iowa. Drake Community Library (Grinnell, Iowa) Archives. Miscellaneous photographs. Collection #17-2, Grinnell Buildings.
Date Created: 1930
PID: grinnell:6483

Title: Construction in Front of the Herald-Register Building
Description: View of a bulldozer and workmen in front of the Grinnell Herald-Register building on 5th Avenue in Grinnell, Iowa. Drake Community Library (Grinnell, Iowa) Archives. Miscellaneous photographs. Collection #17-2, Grinnell Buildings.
Date Created: 1936
PID: grinnell:6505