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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: 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: Automobile Parked in Front of Cherokee Monument Company
Description: Automobile parked in front of Cherokee Monument Company at 126 E. Main Street in Cherokee, Iowa. The building in the background on the right is Lincoln High School which was on the northeast corner of Main Street and 1st Street. The high school was razed in 1960. Drake Community Library (Grinnell, Iowa) Archives. Hodgdon Photographs Collection #259.
PID: grinnell:27281

Title: Birds Eye View, Brooklyn, Iowa -- 30
Description: Postcard birds-eye view of Brooklyn, Iowa. Postcard is addressed to Miss Elizabeth Schaefer, Cedar Rapids, Iowa, and is postmarked October 4, 1912, in Brooklyn. Drake Community Library (Grinnell, Iowa) Archives. Miscellaneous photographs.Collection 17-7, Poweshiek County -- Other towns.
PID: grinnell:13176

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.
PID: grinnell:12827

Title: C.&N.W.R. Locomotive No. 2209
Description: Postcard view of C.&N.W. Railway locomotive No. 2209. Velox stamp box with diamonds in the corners. Drake Community Library (Grinnell, Iowa) Archives. Hodgdon Photographs Collection #259.
PID: grinnell:27287

Title: C.&N.W.R. Steam Engine
Description: Postcard view of a C.&N.W. Railway steam engine and engineers. Azo stamp box with four triangles pointing up on verso. Drake Community Library (Grinnell, Iowa) Archives. Hodgdon Photographs Collection #259.
PID: grinnell:27285

Title: Characteristics of the Times and Seasons
Description: Journal kept by Richard Spire from 1894-1918 in which he recorded his observations on weather, crop yields and prices, land values, and a few comments on presidential elections and World War I. Richard Spire farmed in Sheridan Township, Poweshiek County, Iowa, from 1872-1910. He and his wife, Isadora Hatfield, had eight children. He was engaged in several livestock buying partnerships and was a large feeder of cattle. In 1899 he was elected assessor. Drake Community Library (Grinnell, Iowa) Archives. Collection #56.
PID: grinnell:12351

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.
PID: grinnell:27276

Title: Contests in the Counties for Mulct Petition of Consents
Description: Pamphlet published by the Iowa Anti-Saloon League concerning saloons in the counties and cities whose licenses were being contested by the League. Drake Community Library (Grinnell, Iowa) Archives. Collection # 65.
PID: grinnell:5592