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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: High school, Newton, Iowa
Description: The Newton High School was erected just west from Central school building in 1907/1908 at a cost of $72,000. It was built on the most modern and approved plans for school buildings, even to the items of sanitary drinking fountains. The building was later known as the west building of Central Junior High and in 1983 it was razed and the site sold. Number 5020.
Date Created: 1935
PID: grinnell:14326

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: 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: U.S. Post Office, De Witt, Iowa, De Witt City Hall
Description: Looking northeast from Ninth Street. The building was completed in 1937. Located at 510 Ninth Street, De Witt, Clinton County, Iowa. Number E-61.
Date Created: 1945
PID: grinnell:16947

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