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Title: $25.00 Reward
Description: Postcard sent by the Montezuma, Iowa, Chief of Police and the Northwestern National Insurance Company to the Sheriff's Office in Leon, Iowa, offering a $25.00 reward for information leading to the recovery of a 1932 Nash Sedan which was stolen in Montezuma on February 17, 1934. The postcard is postmarked February 21, 1934, Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
Date Created: 1934
PID: grinnell:12530

Title: Ben Purdum Conducting Church Service for Boy Scouts
Description: Boy Scout troops from Grinnell, Guernsey, Brooklyn, and Montezuma at the Boy Scout camporee west of Montezuma in 1943. Ben Purdum conducted the church service when the minister who was to have held the service failed to arrive in time. Boy Scout Troop 330 put on a play, The Good Samaritan, with Scoutmaster Purdum as narrator.
Date Created: 1943
PID: grinnell:27245

Title: Civil War Veterans on the Courthouse Lawn
Description: Postcard photo of three Grand Army of the Republic members from Brooklyn, Iowa, relaxing on the grounds of the Poweshiek County Courthouse in Montezuma, Iowa, possibly at some sort of celebration. Left to right: Joe Karr, who drove the veterans to Montezuma; Hiram Frease, standing and holding the flag; Frank Dayton and Capt. George Phillips, both seated. Joe Karr was a dry goods merchant in Brooklyn, Iowa. The benches in front of the Karr store were favored places for Civil War veterans to sit and talk. Joe Karr, born in 1865, was not a Civil War veteran himself, although he may have been a GAR member through a relative.
Date Created: 1920
PID: grinnell:11767

Title: East Main Street, Montezuma, Iowa
Description: Looking east toward the north side of East Main Street in Montezuma, Iowa, in approximately 1920. The photo was taken from approximately the intersection of East Main Street and 5th Street. Visible are the Ford garage and H & M Auto Co.
Date Created: 1920
PID: grinnell:27196

Title: Eighth Grade Rural Commencement
Description: Program for the eighth grade commencement exercises for the Poweshiek County, Iowa, rural schools held on Sunday, May 27, 1934, at the Montezuma High School auditorium. The program includes a list of names of graduates arranged by township. Emma P. Denham was the county superintendent of schools.
Date Created: 1934
PID: grinnell:12459

Title: Frank Rowell with his Award Winning Rabbits
Description: Frank Rowell of Rowell's Hillside Rabbitry, Montezuma, Iowa, raised and sold rabbits. He also showed rabbits at competitions around Iowa and won many ribbons.
Date Created: 1949
PID: grinnell:27239

Title: Funk Brothers
Description: Business card for Funk Brothers, Montezuma, Iowa, dealers in boots and shoes. Verso of card is a color advertisement for C.M. Henderson & Co's boots and shoes, Chicago, and features a shepherdess petting a lamb with a black cat in the background.
Date Created: 1890
PID: grinnell:12519

Title: Garfield School, Montezuma, Ia., Garfield School, Montezuma, Iowa
Description: Postcard view of Garfield School in Montezuma, Iowa. A handwritten note on the back of the card reads, "where the old mill used to be." The building, which stood near the location of current (2016) day Brownell's was demolished sometime after 1993. Postcard was published by L.L. Cook, Lake Mills, Wisconsin.
Date Created: 1920
PID: grinnell:12513

Title: George W. Cook and Electa C. Cook to Sarah E. Cook, July 1, 1857; July 4, 1857
Description: Letters six and seven are written on the same piece of paper. Letter six is from Electa C. Cook and letter seven is from George W. Cook. Both are to Sarah E. Cook.
Date Created: 1857
PID: grinnell:11845

Title: George W. Cook and Electa C. Cook to Sarah E. Cook, March 26, 1859
Description: George writes to Sarah that he has little to write, and reports that he and many others in town have been sick. The weather has been poor. He gives a report of the progress on the building of the railroad. Electa asks to be sent [clothes] patterns.
Date Created: 1859
PID: grinnell:12361