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Title: Grinnell Savings Bank Passbook
Description: Grinnell Savings Bank(Iowa) passbook belonging to Raymond Estel Pilgrim showing deposits made in 1918 and 1919.
Date Created: 1918
PID: grinnell:17770

Title: History and Genealogy of Bailey and Baggs Families
Description: Ten pages of handwritten notes detailing the history and genealogy of the James Fordyce Bailey family and the George Thomas Baggs family. This is probably a draft of the entry for James Fordyce Bailey in Leonard Fletcher Parker's History of Poweshiek County, Iowa.
Date Created: 1910
PID: grinnell:5851

Title: Peter and Polly
Description: In this book for children, Peter and Polly meet as kittens, play together, go to school, fall in love, marry, have kittens of their own, and grow old together. Accompanying the story of their adventures are colored photographs of the "real" Peter and Polly, who were the pets of nature photographer Cornelia Clarke. As a young girl, Clarke, who grew up on a farm outside of Grinnell, taught herself the photographic arts by taking pictures of her cats with her father's camera. These photographs, which were originally in black and white, represent her early work. Original plate-glass negatives for six of the twenty-four photographs in Peter and Polly are in the Archives at Drake Community Library. Another original glass-plate negative of a photograph in Peter and Polly is housed in the Grinnell Historical Museum. Clarke was a premier nature photographer, well-known for her exquisite photographs of plants, insects, and animals, which were published both nationally and internationally. Drake Community Library (Grinnell, Iowa) Archives. Cornelia Clarke Collection. Collection #237.
Date Created: 1912
PID: grinnell:18980

Title: Receipt for Ford Touring Car
Description: Receipt dated March 16, 1910, from the Grinnell Garage Company, Grinnell, Iowa, to Mr. George Brown for a Ford Touring car costing $950. Brown is possibly George Brown (1837-1934) who is buried in Westfield Cemetery in Poweshiek County, Iowa. The proprietors of Grinnell Garage Company were E.H. Spaulding and A.C. Dickerson.
Date Created: 1910
PID: grinnell:6412

Title: Two Letters, Letter to Raymond Pilgrim from Mildred, Letter to Mildred from Esther Rowe
Description: Two letters in an envelope addressed to Raymond Pilgrim in Lindsay, California, and postmarked February 2, 1913 in Cedar Falls, Iowa. One letter is written by Mildred to Raymond. Mildred encloses a letter that was written to her by Esther Rowe for Raymond to read. Mildred's letter, which is written on I.S.T.C. (Iowa State Teachers College) stationery, describes a fire in a women's rooming house.
Date Created: 1913
PID: grinnell:17771

Title: West Side of Broad Street between 4th Avenue and Main Street
Description: View of the west side of Broad Street between 4th Avenue and Main Street in Grinnell, Iowa. Talbott's Drug Store on the corner of 4th and Broad. Building blocks are labeled from left to right (south to north) as: Grinnell Block, Gifford and Manly Block, Child Block (909), Stewart Block (911-913), Morse Block (915), Coutts Building, and Miles Bros./Parker. Drake Community Library (Grinnell, Iowa) Archives. Miscellaneous photographs. Collection #17-2, Grinnell Buildings.
Date Created: 1910
PID: grinnell:6485