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Title: Conversations with Iowa Farmers
Description: Frank Heath, Becca Rae-Holloway, Laurel Tuggle, and Barb Lease interviewed 30 Iowa farmers who grew up on Grinnell, Iowa, area farms in the 1920s, 1930s, and 1940s. Those interviewed included Raymond Brown, Burton Cooper and his sister Loretta Burrell, Gary and Susan Davis, Robert Dimit, Stanley Greenwald, Larry Ellis, Jean Hinegardner, Howard McDonough, Henry Harris, Bruce Henriksen, Elsie Johnston, James Harley and Patricia McIlrath, Gene and Ellen Merck, Don Milburn, Mike Mintle, Allan and Shirley Moyer, Bill and Marjorie Rempp, Ronald Riley, Boyd Sparks, Don and Doris Weaver, Frank Wheeler, Lucille Binegar Van Dyke, and Ronald Van Gennep.
Date Created: 2013
PID: grinnell:12986

Title: Davis School Teachers, circa 1920
Description: A black and white photograph of what we assume are Davis School teachers. The photograph includes seven women, who are identified on the back of the photograph, one of whom includes Lizzie Davis, the namesake of the school. From the left: Ethel Trotter, Ina Sprague, Bertha Smith, Vesta Atkinson, unknown, Ms. Daggett, Lizzie Davis.
Date Created: 1915
PID: grinnell:26624

Title: Des Moines Sunday Register Society and Clubs, Society and Clubs, Des Moines Sunday Register
Description: Society and Clubs page of the October 2, 1927, Des Moines Register featuring Henryetta Spaulding, Betty Jane Spaulding, Miriam Jane Spaulding, and Mrs. Mark C. Blair (Alice Spaulding) announcing the wedding of Henryetta to Edwin Stanton Van Gorder.
Date Created: 1927
PID: grinnell:5807

Title: Doris Durey and Ray George Wedding Party
Description: Photograph of Doris Durey and Ray George's wedding party on July 20, 1926. They were married on the farm where Doris grew up which was called Bide-A-Wee Farm near Manchester, Iowa. The man to the right of the groom was Herb Palmer, who was Ray's college roommate. Flower bouquets are hand-colored.
Date Created: 1926
PID: grinnell:11750

Title: Dorothy Tarleton outside Ben's Tire Shop
Description: Dorothy Tarleton sits inside of a Sieberling Cord tire outside of her father's tire shop, Ben's Tire Shop, in Grinnell, Iowa, in 1923 or 1924. Dorothy later married Philip Palmer.
Date Created: 1923
PID: grinnell:12033

Title: Dr. Edwin E. Harris as William Pine in "Passers-By"
Description: Dr. Edwin E. Harris, wearing a Za-Ga-Zig Shriner's hat, as the man-servant William Pine, in the December 14th, 1921, production of "Passers-By" performed by the Community Playmakers of Grinnell at the Colonial Theater in Grinnell, Iowa. Drake Community Library (Grinnell, Iowa) Archives. Miscellaneous photographs. Collection #100, Early Theater Productions.
Date Created: 1921
PID: grinnell:18918

Title: Edith Renfrow Eighth Grade Graduation
Description: Photograph of Edith Renfrow taken in 1929 upon the occasion of her graduation from 8th grade in Grinnell, Iowa.
Date Created: 1929
PID: grinnell:12197

Title: Eugene Henely
Description: Eugene Henely was superintendent of schools in Grinnell, Iowa, for 23 years, from 1905 until his death in 1928. Photo by Child. Drake Community Library (Grinnell, Iowa) Archives. Miscellaneous photographs. Collection #17-6, People.
Date Created: 1921
PID: grinnell:13081

Title: Evanel Playing With a Doll
Description: Evanel Renfrow sitting on the west side of her home at 411 First Avenue in Grinnell, Iowa, playing with a doll. She is 13 or 14 years old at the time and has a big bow in her hair.
Date Created: 1921
PID: grinnell:35561

Title: Evanel Renfrow at Florida A&M
Description: A model cafeteria lunch set-up for a 1 room school is displayed at Florida A&M College for Negroes, Tallahassee, Florida. Evanel Renfrow is the woman on the right. Evanel was a professor of Home Economics at African American universities across the Southern states. The back of the photo has stamp, "Agr. Extension Ser., Gainesville, Fla."
Date Created: 1928
PID: grinnell:35559