Search results | Digital Grinnell

Title: 900 Block of Broad Street
Description: View of a parade(?) in the 900 block of Broad Street about 1907. Norris Feed is in the background. Horses in the street are pulling an elaborate wagon. Drake Community Library (Grinnell, Iowa) Archives. McNally photographs. Collection #1, Series #1-1.
PID: grinnell:6234

Title: A. McIntosh & Co.
Description: Store front of A. McIntosh & Co.,Grinnell, Iowa, advertising dry goods, carpets and cloaks, as well as Ferris Good Sense corset waists. Man and woman standing in doorway. Stairway going up on the left says "Dentist."
PID: grinnell:6159

Title: Alex Moffett Interview
Description: Alex Moffett was born in 1905 in Suzhou, China, to missionary parents. He lived in China until 1923 when he attended Washington & Lee in Viginia for college and then went on to Vanderbilt for medical school. He and his wife, Virginia, returned to China in 1935 where they did medical missionary work until 1940, including during the Sino-Japanese war. After returning to the U.S., he had a private practice in Taylorsville, North Carolina, for twenty-nine years.
PID: grinnell:26717

Title: Anna Ramsey Interview
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.
PID: grinnell:23315

Title: Arbor Lake, Grinnell, Iowa
Description: Postcard view of sailboats on Arbor Lake, Grinnell, Iowa. Boathouse and two other buildings on east shore pictured. Published by Pearson Ullberg Company, Minneapolis, Minn. Drake Community Library (Grinnell, Iowa) Archives. McNally photographs. Collection #1, Series #1-1.
PID: grinnell:6256

Title: Arbor Lake, Grinnell, Iowa -- 19
Description: Postcard view of Arbor Lake in Grinnell, Iowa. Published by E.C. Kropp, Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Drake Community Library (Grinnell, Iowa) Archives. McNally photographs. Collection #1, Series #1-1.
PID: grinnell:6255

Title: Armory, Grinnell, Iowa
Description: Postcard view of the Armory at 816 Fifth Avenue in Grinnell, Iowa. Postcard produced by C.U. Williams Photoette, Bloomington, Illinois. Drake Community Library (Grinnell, Iowa) Archives. McNally photographs. Collection #1, Series #1-1.
PID: grinnell:6280

Title: Arthur McDowell Interview
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.
PID: grinnell:23310

Title: Augusta Pederson Interview
Description: Since her birth on October 29, 1904, Augusta has lived in or near Grinnell. After her marriage to Leonard Pederson, she was his partner in farming, active in Grange and church work, and a busy homemaker and mother. She was an accomplished cook, baker, and quilter. She and her husband had three children.
PID: grinnell:23313

Title: B.P.O.E. Home, Grinnell, Iowa
Description: Color postcard view of the B.P.O.E. building on the southeast corner of Main Street and 4th Avenue in Grinnell, Iowa. The lower floor is occupied by R.E. Bates Wallpaper and Paint Supplies. The red brick building to the right in the picture is the Antler Hotel. Drake Community Library (Grinnell, Iowa) Archives. McNally photographs. Collection #1, Series #1-1.
PID: grinnell:6217