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Title: 1953 Iowa Corn Picking Contest Winners
Description: Jack Waterbeck, fourth from the left holding plaque, after winning the 1953 two-row division Iowa corn picking contest. The contest was held in a field north of Blairstown and was sponsored by WMT Radio. Mr. Waterbeck had a new International Harvester corn picker on an International Harvester Super MTA tractor. Mr. Waterbeck, from Hartwick, Iowa, went on to take third place nationally.
Date Created: 1953
PID: grinnell:27221

Title: 1953 Labor Day Parade Looking West on Commerical
Description: Looking west on Commercial Street from the corner of Broad and Commercial during the 1953 Labor Day parade in Grinnell, Iowa. The entrance to the Park Hotel at 815 Broad Street is visible in the background, as are the storefronts on the north side of Commercial Street. Football players in Grinnell Tiger uniforms are riding on the front of an automobile decorated with a Tiger banner.
Date Created: 1953
PID: grinnell:20624

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: Better Farm Accounting 1953, 1953 Farm Record
Description: Better Farm Accounting, second edition, a practical guide by Iowa State College Farm Management Specialists, prepared by Herbert B. Howell. Copyright 1947 by the Iowa State College Press, Ames, Iowa. This volume, labeled 1953, contains records for the Raymond S. Pilgrim farm which was located in the northeast quarter of Section 27 of Grant Township in Poweshiek County, Iowa. Contains tables for records of livestock production, dairy sales, egg sales, livestock sales of animals raised and bought, purchases of livestock, crop sales, miscellaneous receipts, machinery bought and sold, farm expenses, net income statement, inventories of feed and seed, inventories of livestock, net worth, and crop record and map. Summaries can be used as the basis for filing income tax returns.
Date Created: 1953
PID: grinnell:30016

Title: Cheerleader Joanne Bunge
Description: Joanne Bunge poses in her cheerleading outfit outside the South Campus loggia on the Grinnell College campus in 1953. Behind her are homecoming decorations. From Joanne M. Bunge's Grinnell College student scrapbook, 1952-1956.
Date Created: 1953
PID: grinnell:12943

Title: Christmas Party in Main Hall
Description: View of a Christmas party in Main Hall dormitory at Grinnell College in Grinnell, Iowa, in 1953. From Joanne M. Bunge's Grinnell College student scrapbook, 1952-1956.
Date Created: 1953
PID: grinnell:12950

Title: Cooper School First Graders, 1953
Description: Cooper School, Grinnell, Iowa, first grade students in October 1953; Mrs. Haag, teacher. Top row: Clark Bittner, Ricky Ford, Jackie Norris, Barb Megson, Bonnie Beaty, Patti Thompson, Hank Pawlak, Sarah Brobyn. 2nd row: Jimmy Clementi, Timmy DeLong, Phyllis Schalinske, Dennis Strovers, Gene Tiedeman, Susan Larson, Dennis Pickens, Patty Lowe. 3rd row: Judy Craig, Jimmy Harris, Carol Martens, Bob Sampson, Janie Green, Sammy Osborne, Steve Gustafson, [unidentified boy]. Bottom row: Gordon Abel
Date Created: 1953
PID: grinnell:5696

Title: Davis School Second Grade 1953
Description: Class photo of the second grade class at Davis School in Grinnell, Iowa, in October 1953. Top row, from left to right: Jack Davis, Larry Lemke, Gene Shook, Roy Haines, Larry Allbee, Sharon Tomasine, Linda Triplett, Jerry Vitera. Second row: Wayne Chase, Mike Martinson, Carl Goehring, Joyce Olson, Ronda Wilson, K. Haines, Larry Hamor, Patty Fleming. Third row: Sandi Ziegenmeyer, Judy Binegar, Sandy Asberry, Marilyn Norris, Mary Jo Gilbert, Mike Mullins, Larry Dye, Bill Wilson. Bottom row: Mrs. Thorson
Date Created: 1953
PID: grinnell:12462

Title: Dorm Room Fun
Description: Shane Bellis Cook (left) and Claudette Seymour climbing on the doors in Haines Hall at Grinnell College in 1953. From Joanne M. Bunge's Grinnell College student scrapbook, 1952-1956.
Date Created: 1953
PID: grinnell:12942

Title: Ewart Bible School
Description: The Daily Vacation Bible School class at the United Presbyterian Church in Ewart, Iowa, poses in June 1953. Rev. W.J. Stewart was the pastor. Row 1, left to right: Pauline Bacon, Terry Sparks, Lauren James, Danny Grandstaff, Bobby Boyd, Bruce Ryan, Bonita Englebardt, Darrell Hull, Beverly Arrnaman, Timmy Stanley, Susan Braley, Craig Van Arkel, Allen Van Arkel, Junior Van Dusseldorp. Row 2: Diane Grandstaff, Dennis Hull, Cindy Gregory, Doris Boyd, Louise Thompson, Kathy Braley, Sara Jean Johnson, Patty Hughes, Marjorie Berry, Richard Phillips, Charlotte Tone. Row 3: Charlotte Foster, Barbara Tone, Rhea Mae Wells, Carolyn Phillips, Linda Stemsrud, Kathleen Little, Mary Beth Peterson, Ray Pargeon, Daryl Snider, Larry Reams, Richard Ryan, Joyce Lemke, Phyllis Phillips, Carolyn Stanley. Row 4: Judy Stemsrud, Nancy Johnson, Darlene Thompson, Patty Stanley, Virginia Tindle, Carolyn Thompson, Sammy Ingram, Nancy Allely, Sue Foster, Becky Morrison, Sandra Hughes, Glen McKeag, Danny Peters, Gary Davis, Billy Peterson, Dick Braley, Ronnie Foster. Row 5: Mrs. Van Dusseldorp, Donna Pargeon, Sandra Snider, Thelma Tish, Louise Latcham, Billie Jean Stemsrud, Linda Whisenand, Beverly Hughes, Katherine Tish, Janice Peters, Paul Pargeon, Jack Peterson, Billy Reams, Roger Close, Larry Van Dusseldorp, Wayne Tindle, Mrs. Edward Wells, Virginia Johnson. Row 6: Mrs. Bennie Foster, Mrs. Donald Hull, Mrs. James Van Arkel, Mrs. Fred Stone, Mrs. Craig Stanley, Mrs. Warren James, Mrs. Paul Latcham, Robert Haworth, Gary Braley, Ronnie Reams, Phyllis Whisenand, Carolyn Van Dusseldorp, Donna Worthy, Laurene Jeffrey, Carmen Haworth. Row 7: Rev. W. J. Stewart, Mrs. Jean A. McCormick, and Mrs. W. J. Stewart.
Date Created: 1953
PID: grinnell:12458