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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.
Date Created: 1953
PID: grinnell:27221

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: 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: 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: Cheerleader Joanne Bunge
Description: Joanne Bunge poses in her cheerleading outfit outside the South Campus loggia on the Grinnell College campus in 1953. Behind her are homecoming decorations. From Joanne M. Bunge's Grinnell College student scrapbook, 1952-1956.
Date Created: 1953
PID: grinnell:12943

Title: Christmas Party in Main Hall
Description: View of a Christmas party in Main Hall dormitory at Grinnell College in Grinnell, Iowa, in 1953. From Joanne M. Bunge's Grinnell College student scrapbook, 1952-1956.
Date Created: 1953
PID: grinnell:12950

Title: City park, Gladbrook, Iowa
Description: View of fountain and people on a merry go around in the park. 1953 postmark. Number B652.
Date Created: 1953
PID: grinnell:14408

Title: Cooper School First Graders, 1953
Description: Cooper School, Grinnell, Iowa, first grade students in October 1953; Mrs. Haag, teacher. Top row: Clark Bittner, Ricky Ford, Jackie Norris, Barb Megson, Bonnie Beaty, Patti Thompson, Hank Pawlak, Sarah Brobyn. 2nd row: Jimmy Clementi, Timmy DeLong, Phyllis Schalinske, Dennis Strovers, Gene Tiedeman, Susan Larson, Dennis Pickens, Patty Lowe. 3rd row: Judy Craig, Jimmy Harris, Carol Martens, Bob Sampson, Janie Green, Sammy Osborne, Steve Gustafson, [unidentified boy]. Bottom row: Gordon Abel
Date Created: 1953
PID: grinnell:5696