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Title: True Story
Description: Advertisement for a play about the romance between a male Grinnell College history professor and a female Grinnell College English professor performed at the Colonial Theater in Grinnell, Iowa. Probably 1925. Drake Community Library Archives. Early Theater Productions. Collection #100.
Date Created: 1925
PID: grinnell:6114

Title: Alex Manson
Description: Black and white photographic portrait of Alexander Manson (1875-1966) in police uniform with a badge reading "CHIEF" on his cap. Manson served as chief of police in Grinnell from 1921 through 1939. Judging by his appearance, this photograph was most likely taken in the 1920s. During World War I he joined the YMCA and served as secretary with overseas duty in Paris for 2 1/2 years.
Date Created: 1921
PID: grinnell:23239

Title: Ben's Tire Shop Truck Decorated for a Parade
Description: Gladys Tarleton poses next to a decorated truck, probably for a Fourth of July parade, at Ben's Tire Shop in Grinnell, Iowa, in 1921 or 1922. Ben's Tire Shop, located at 717 Fourth Avenue, was run by Benjamin Pliny Tarleton in Grinnell beginning in the early 1920s.
Date Created: 1921
PID: grinnell:12029

Title: Broad Street, West of Park, Grinnell, Iowa
Description: Postcard with colorized photograph of Broad Street, West of Park, Grinnell, addressed to Ethel Longley (1884-9/19/1961).
Date Created: 1921
PID: grinnell:26617

Title: Bruce Ford Hammond
Description: Bruce Ford Hammond, youngest son of Walter and Hattie Child Hammond. Photo taken by Child Studio, Grinnell, Iowa.
Date Created: 1923
PID: grinnell:20429

Title: Burk-Leins Novelty Orchestra
Description: The Burk-Leins Novelty Orchestra played on riverboats on the Mississippi in the late 1920s. A note on the verso identifies the group as the "Mississippi Six" and additionally indicates Polk Burk on drums, Stick Leins on piano, and Rex Leins on sax. Drake Community Library (Grinnell, Iowa) Archives. Miscellaneous photographs. Collection #17-6, People.
Date Created: 1928
PID: grinnell:12827

Title: Carmen
Description: Theater program. Ralph Dunbar Productions, Inc. present The Dunbar English Opera Company in an American production of Bizet's masterful Carmen. Colonial Theatre, Friday, October 7, 1921. Cast: John Knox, James Stevens, Lester Spring, Jack Bean, Lee Bright, Lorna Doone Jackson, Louise Gilbert, Elizabeth Myers, Winifred Wiley, George Shields, Harry Raschig, Gilbert Jackson. Drake Community Library Archives. Early Theater Productions. Collection #100.
Date Created: 1921
PID: grinnell:6120

Title: Cherokee Monument Company Truck
Description: A uniformed man stands next to a truck with Cherokee Monument Co. on the driver's door. The truck has a 1921 Iowa license plate. Photo most likely was taken in Cherokee, Iowa. Drake Community Library (Grinnell, Iowa) Archives. Hodgdon Photographs Collection #259.
Date Created: 1921
PID: grinnell:27276

Title: Conversations with Iowa Farmers
Description: Frank Heath, Becca Rae-Holloway, Laurel Tuggle, and Barb Lease interviewed 30 Iowa farmers who grew up on Grinnell, Iowa, area farms in the 1920s, 1930s, and 1940s. Those interviewed included Raymond Brown, Burton Cooper and his sister Loretta Burrell, Gary and Susan Davis, Robert Dimit, Stanley Greenwald, Larry Ellis, Jean Hinegardner, Howard McDonough, Henry Harris, Bruce Henriksen, Elsie Johnston, James Harley and Patricia McIlrath, Gene and Ellen Merck, Don Milburn, Mike Mintle, Allan and Shirley Moyer, Bill and Marjorie Rempp, Ronald Riley, Boyd Sparks, Don and Doris Weaver, Frank Wheeler, Lucille Binegar Van Dyke, and Ronald Van Gennep.
Date Created: 2013
PID: grinnell:12986

Title: Davis School Teachers, circa 1920
Description: A black and white photograph of what we assume are Davis School teachers. The photograph includes seven women, who are identified on the back of the photograph, one of whom includes Lizzie Davis, the namesake of the school. From the left: Ethel Trotter, Ina Sprague, Bertha Smith, Vesta Atkinson, unknown, Ms. Daggett, Lizzie Davis.
Date Created: 1915
PID: grinnell:26624