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Title: Bethany Church, Belle Plaine, Iowa, Bethany United Evangelical Church
Description: The Bethany Church was dedicated on December 9, 1894, costing $2,500. Number 21850.
Date Created: 1905
PID: grinnell:13916

Title: Chicago and North Western Train Wreck, April 23, 1908, De Witt, Iowa, Silver Creek
Description: View of the wrecked train. On April 23, 1908, southwest of DeWitt, Iowa, at Silver Creek, flooding weakened a bridge and gave way to stock train 132 where an engine and 17 cars of cattle fell into the water. Three crewmen perished in the wreck.
Date Created: 1908
PID: grinnell:16950

Title: Homestead with horses and plow, De Witt, Iowa
Description: Men in front of home with horses and plow.
Date Created: 1910
PID: grinnell:16948

Title: Looking southeast at Dewar, Iowa, Schmitt Brothers
Description: Looking southeast at the town of Delmar, Iowa, with the Schmitt Brothers hardware and implement store in the background. Frank K. Schmitt opened the business in fall of 1900 with his cousin, Frank Fritz. After Fritz's death, Frank J.'s brother Edward entered the partnership in 1902.
Date Created: 1905
PID: grinnell:16844

Title: Looking southwest at Dewar, Iowa, Mt. Zion Church, Mount Zion Church
Description: Looking southwest at the town of Delmar, Iowa, with the Mt. Zion Church in the background. The Mt. Zion Church was moved to Dewar from Bennington, Iowa, in 1905.
Date Created: 1907
PID: grinnell:16845

Title: Presbyterian Church, Avoca, Iowa
Description: Looking at front entrance of two-story brick church building from the street.
Date Created: 1905
PID: grinnell:14222

Title: Purple Heart Certificate
Description: A Purple Heart certificate posthumously awarded to Jimmy Ley on 18 September 1945.
Date Created: 1945
PID: grinnell:27767

Title: Purple Heart Certificate
Description: A Purple Heart certificate posthumously awarded to Jimmy Ley on 21 September 1948.
Date Created: 1948
PID: grinnell:27768

Title: Students Dancing
Description: Approximately eleven male students dressed up, dancing in the middle of the gym floor. 1960s.
PID: grinnell:17772

Title: Warnecke's De Witt Cafe, De Witt, Iowa
Description: Looking at the inside of a 1950s cafe with tables and chairs, booths and a bar with stools. Verso says: Warnecke's De Witt Cafe, 903 Sixth Ave., Highway 61, De Witt, Iowa 'Air Conditioned', 'Just Good Food' Prime beef center of the world. Open every day except Monday. Bee and Harold Warneck, proprietors. 1956 postmark. Number 21624.
Date Created: 1956
PID: grinnell:16071