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Title: Ahrens Homestead
Description: View of the Ahrens family homestead on their Center Township, Poweshiek County, Iowa, farm.
Date Created: 1930
PID: grinnell:12911

Title: Baling Hay
Description: Harry Ryan baling hay in the mid-1950s in Chester Township, Poweshiek County, Iowa. He is driving an orange Allis-Chalmers tractor equipped with an umbrella, and it is pulling a hay baler. Barns, outbuildings and a windmill are visible in the background.
Date Created: 1955
PID: grinnell:29796

Title: Chester Center Store
Description: Photograph of Chester Center Store in Chester Township, Iowa, which was destroyed by fire in 1939. Pictured are H. G. Sutton, Beck Sutton, Mildred Sutton, and Aline Lidtka Petersen. Photograph was taken in the late 1920s
Date Created: 1920
PID: grinnell:3370

Title: Four Small Children in a Horse-drawn Cart
Description: Photograph of four children identified as Aline Lidtka, Elaine Lidtka, Carolyn Lidtka, and Rosemarie Bollinger (in hat) sitting in a horse-drawn cart. A barn and silo are in the background. The photograph was taken in the late 1920s.
Date Created: 1920
PID: grinnell:3363

Title: Hallie Ryan and Helen Lamb
Description: Hallie Ryan, left, and Helen Lamb were farm women who worked in the field.
Date Created: 1970
PID: grinnell:29799

Title: Harry Ryan
Description: Harry Ryan stands on the steps of his Minneapolis-Moline tractor with cab, probably in the 1960s.
Date Created: 1960
PID: grinnell:29801

Title: Harvesting Oats
Description: Harry Ryan harvesting oats in Chester Township, Poweshiek County, Iowa, in the late 1960s.
Date Created: 1967
PID: grinnell:29795

Title: Horse-drawn Wagon with Corn
Description: Photograph of two men, Tracy Lidtka and Afton Lidtka, sitting on top of a horse-drawn wagon full of corn. Photograph was probably taken in the 1930s
Date Created: 1930
PID: grinnell:3364

Title: Planting Time
Description: Harry Ryan loads seed into his 4-row John Deere corn planter in the late 1960s or early 1970s at his farm in Chester Township, Poweshiek County, Iowa.
Date Created: 1970
PID: grinnell:29798

Title: Ross Ave House, Ross Avenue House
Description: The Ross Avenue House was a wine and beer saloon owned by Fred Ahrens in Cincinnati, Ohio. Fred's wife, Henrietta Hücke Ahrens is seated with their seven children in front of the saloon. Fred is standing at the right side of the family group sporting a goatee. Customers and bystanders surround them. In 1893 Fred Ahrens bought a farm in Chester Township, Poweshiek County, Iowa, and moved to Iowa with his family. In 1895, Fred Ahrens died in a farm accident.
Date Created: 1880
PID: grinnell:12910