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Title: Building Road in Iowa
Description: Jacob Martin ("Jake") Norris, with paper in his hand, stands with a road building crew in Poweshiek County, Iowa. Numerous teams of horses and mules hitched to road building equipment are working on a steep hill.
Date Created: 1900
PID: grinnell:12471

Title: Chester School #5
Description: Photograph of Chester School #5, in Chester Township, Poweshiek County, Iowa. It was the only two-room rural school: one room was elementary and the other was a two-year high school. The school faced south; the west windows were on the high school side.
Date Created: 1930
PID: grinnell:3389

Title: Chester School #6 Class Photo
Description: Photograph of the shoolchildren attending Chester School #6in Poweshiek County, Iowa, during the 1938-1939 school year. Back Row: Billy Campbell, Lavern Olson, Ruth Schroeder, Raymond Olso, Gene Campbell. Middle Row: Billy Schroeder, Albert Graff, Arlene Graff, Paul Ahrens, Raymond Ahrens. Front Row: Delores (?) Graff. Photograph was taken in 1938.
Date Created: 1938
PID: grinnell:3392

Title: Cleland School
Description: Students at the Cleland school in rural Poweshiek County, Iowa, about 1920. The Cleland School was probably the rural school located on the northeast corner of Section 19, in Pleasant Township, about a half mile west of Ewart. The school was adjacent to the William Cleland farm Front row, from left to right: Don Cleland, Waunita Johnson, Helen Cleland, Pauline Johnson. Back row: Unidentified teacher, Lela Farley, Genevieve Johnson, Lora Cleland, Eugene McCormick, Louise Cox.
Date Created: 1920
PID: grinnell:20657

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: Evanel Renfrow at Florida A&M University
Description: Photograph of Evanel Renfrow taken while she was a student at Florida A&M University in Tallahassee, Florida, in the early 1930s.
Date Created: 1930
PID: grinnell:12181

Title: First School, Newburg, Iowa
Description: Photograph of students outside of a schoolhouse. Back of photo is labeled: "School number 6, First school, Newburg, Ia. R.S.P." Drake Community Library (Grinnell, Iowa) Archives. Miscellaneous photographs. Collection 20, Grinnell Schools.
Date Created: 1900
PID: grinnell:13227

Title: Fourth Grade Students at Grant #2 Fall 1961, 4th Grade Students at Grant #2 Fall 1961
Description: Fourth grade students at Grant #2 rural school, Poweshiek County, Iowa, in the fall of 1961. In January 1962, the students began attending Fairview School in Grinnell. Sitting: Glenace Wilbourne, Laura Grandstaff, Kathy Gwinn, Cheryl George, Ronnie Harter, Anita George (classmate's sister), Dave McCurry, Bill Ahrens, Pam Tuinstra, Martin Kuchera. Standing: Roger Souter, Richard Billman, Debbie Fisher, Ray Graham, Kathryn Haner, Craig Stimson, Bev Brown, Monica Storbeck, Frank Kelm, Emily Nixon, Margaret Hasselbrink, Jane Dobbins, Kerry Halverson, Jon Thornton, Barb Vogt, Jucy Schalinske, Edward Garlock, Mary Schulte.
Date Created: 1961
PID: grinnell:20695

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: Girls outside Chester School #5
Description: Female students and teacher at Chester School #5 in Poweshiek County, Iowa. From left to right: Marjory Hafkey,[unidentified], Aline Lidtka (teacher), Lorene Upchurch, and Jean Ahrens.
Date Created: 1930
PID: grinnell:3390