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Title: Ahrens Family about 1910
Description: Some of the family of Frederick and Henrietta Ahrens taken at their home at Sixth Avenue and Penrose in Grinnell, Iowa, about 1910. Back row: Henry Ahrens, William Ahrens holding Alice Ahrens Edgington, Frank Ahrens, Fred Schmidt (?), Will Geiger. Middle row: Carolyn "Carrie" Schultz Ahrens holding Wesley, Henrietta Ahrens, Ella Zahrt Ahrens holding Sheldon, Annie Kuder holding an unidentified child, Mary Myers Ahrens holding Stanley, Dora Ahrens Geiger, Minnie Ahrens, Ella Ahrens McMillan, Mrs. Fred Schmidt(?). Front row: Inez Ahrens Sanders is one of the children in the front row. All other children are unidentified.
Date Created: 1910
PID: grinnell:12913

Title: Brown Family
Description: Postcard view of the Brown family inside their Hickory Grove home in Jasper County, Iowa. Middle row on the left are Izora and Emory Brown. Nora Belle Brown is in the back row on the right. Velox stamp box on verso.
Date Created: 1910
PID: grinnell:12017

Title: Charles Austin Palmer and Nora Belle Brown
Description: Postcard image of Charles Austin Palmer and Nora Belle Brown in a horse and carriage while courting in 1909 or 1910. They were married on September 21, 1910. Charles Austin and his brothers received a horse and carriage at graduation from eighth grade, but they were not allowed to continue their schooling. Azo stamp box on verso of postcard.
Date Created: 1910
PID: grinnell:12216

Title: City Hall, Montezuma, Iowa
Description: Postcard view of City Hall in Montezuma, Iowa. Postcard published by J.M. Hamilton, Monmouth, Illinois. 9867.
Date Created: 1910
PID: grinnell:12505

Title: Eliza Jane Craig
Description: Eliza Jane Gilbal Craig in Grinnell, Iowa, circa 1910. Eliza Jane was Edith Renfrow Smith's maternal grandmother.
Date Created: 1910
PID: grinnell:12137

Title: First National Bank Building, Montezuma, Iowa
Description: Postcard view of the First National Bank Building in Montezuma, Iowa.
Date Created: 1910
PID: grinnell:6247

Title: Grant "Connie" Wilson
Description: Grant "Connie" Wilson in his Grinnell, Iowa, firefighter's uniform, circa 1910-1920. Mr. Wilson was probably a volunteer firefighter. Census records show that he worked as a blacksmith/engineer from at least 1900, working at the electric plant in 1910, at a school house in 1920, and at the city water works in 1930.
Date Created: 1910
PID: grinnell:12432

Title: Grinnell Gathering
Description: Postcard view of a group of men, women, and children holding a sign which reads, "Grinnell." Tents are visible in the background. The postcard appears to be from the early 1900s but it was sent through the U.S. mail in 2006 to Lorna Caulkins from Jim and Eileen Sanders. Drake Community Library (Grinnell, Iowa) Archives. Miscellaneous photographs. Collection #17-6, People.
Date Created: 1910
PID: grinnell:13114

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