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Title: $25.00 Reward
Description: Postcard sent by the Montezuma, Iowa, Chief of Police and the Northwestern National Insurance Company to the Sheriff's Office in Leon, Iowa, offering a $25.00 reward for information leading to the recovery of a 1932 Nash Sedan which was stolen in Montezuma on February 17, 1934. The postcard is postmarked February 21, 1934, Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
PID: grinnell:12530

Title: 15127 Newcomer Avenue, Newburg, Iowa
Description: Home at 15127 Newcomer Avenue in Newburg, Iowa, (mailing address is Grinnell, Iowa) built by Charles Austin Palmer.
PID: grinnell:12023

Title: 1907 Ford Model S Automobile
Description: Photograph of a 1907 Ford Model S car which belonged to Bill Lidtka who lived near Grinnell, Iowa. Photograph has identification "Uncle Bill Lidtka's car". The car is in front of a farm house.
PID: grinnell:3379

Title: 1948 Farm Record
Description: Farm record book published by C.A. Bacon, Hillsdale Michigan. This volume, published for 1948, contains records for the Raymond S. Pilgrim farm which was located in the northeast quarter of Section 27 of Grant Township in Poweshiek County, Iowa. The tables in the book are keyed to the federal income tax schedules. Schedules included are: Livestock bought and sold; sale of produce; labor expense; feed, seed, and supplies purchased; machines hired; repairs and maintenance; fertilizer; fuel and oil; interest paid; electricity and telephone; freight and trucking; veterinary and medicine; taxes paid; insurance; storage hired; rent of other lands and buildings; other miscellaneous expenses; depreciation of buildings, machinery, livestock, fences and drains; other income and other deductible expenses.
PID: grinnell:18938

Title: 1953 Iowa Corn Picking Contest Winners
Description: Jack Waterbeck, fourth from the left holding plaque, after winning the 1953 two-row division Iowa corn picking contest. The contest was held in a field north of Blairstown and was sponsored by WMT Radio. Mr. Waterbeck had a new International Harvester corn picker on an International Harvester Super MTA tractor. Mr. Waterbeck, from Hartwick, Iowa, went on to take third place nationally.
PID: grinnell:27221

Title: A Letter from James L.Hill D.D of Salem, Mass
Description: A letter taken from what appears to be a manuscript that contains biographical information about J.B. Grinnell.
PID: grinnell:4226

Title: A Talk of Farewells - An Address on J.B. Grinnell's Death
Description: Professor Leonard Fletcher Parker wrote this outline of an address he was to give after J.B. Grinnell's death. He comments on both life itself and on J.B. Grinnell's notable life and accomplishments.
PID: grinnell:4243

Title: Aaron Gilbal
Description: Aaron Gilbal was the brother of Eliza Jane Gilbal Craig. Eliza Jane was Edith Renfrow Smith's maternal grandmother. He served with the 45th Regiment of the U.S. Colored Troops during the Civil War. Gilbal is spelled Gillbal in some records. Portrait by Stonecypher's Portraits, Omaha, Nebraska.
PID: grinnell:12144

Title: Abi Frances Alden Palmer
Description: Studio portrait of Abi Frances Alden Palmer, wife of Anson Hayden Palmer. They married in 1877. Portrait by Brown, Marshalltown, Iowa.
PID: grinnell:11943

Title: Adam Woomer
Description: Black and white photographic portrait of "Great Grandpop Woomer, My Boys Great Grandfather." Judging by the age of the photograph and of the man, this is likely Adam Woomer (1818-1904) of Davenport. Mr. Woomer is dressed in a suit and bow tie.
PID: grinnell:23279