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Title: 818 Elm Street
Description: 818 Elm Street in Grinnell, Iowa. This was the home of Mabel Stemsrud, and it was built by her son, Bert Stemsrud in 1948. The home was ordered from a catalog. Bert drove his tractor and a hay wagon into Grinnell from his Ewart farm and unloaded the house materials from a railway car. Bert and his brothers would bring loads of cobs from corn shelling to Mabel. She used those in her kitchen Home Comfort stove for cooking. She also had a cob fired hot water heater in the basement. Mabel kept a large garden and many fruit trees.
Date Created: 1960
PID: grinnell:20681

Title: 911 High Street
Description: 911 High Street in Grinnell, Iowa, built by Ed Bohstedt in 1940.
Date Created: 1940
PID: grinnell:21187

Title: 913 Eighth Avenue, 913 8th Avenue
Description: Doris and Ray George's 1960 Christmas card with a wintertime view of their house at 913 Eighth Avenue in Grinnell, Iowa. The picture was taken the year before.
Date Created: 1959
PID: grinnell:11760

Title: 932 Park Street
Description: The Grinnell home of Charles Austin and Nora Belle Palmer at 932 Park Street, the southeast corner of 5th Avenue and Park Street in 1938 or 1939.
Date Created: 1938
PID: grinnell:12012

Title: Abstract of Title, Bailey Homestead
Description: Abstract of title to the West 1/4 of the NE 1/4 and East 1/2 of the NW 1/4, Section 8, Township 80, Range 16. This abstract is for the James Fordyce Bailey farm northeast of Grinnell, Iowa, and includes the names: Josiah B. Grinnell, John Bailey, Lorenzo Bailey, Charles Bailey, George and Susan Tallmon, Andrew Foster, H.W., F.E. & E.H. Spaulding, A.B. Gage and Joanna Baggs, among others. Abstract covers 1854-1930.
Date Created: 1854
PID: grinnell:5852

Title: Abstract of Title, Bailey's Addition
Description: Abstract of title to the East 1/2 of the West 1/2 of the Northeast 1/4 of Section 8, Township 80, Range 16, and all of Block 2 in Bailey's Addition to Grinnell, Iowa. Part of the James Fordyce Bailey homestead which became Bailey's Addition to the Town of Grinnell. Includes the names of Josiah B. Grinnell, Hugh Downey, John Bailey, James F. Bailey, Lorenzo Bailey (and many other Baileys), Mary Stickle, and William Dunn among others. Abstract covers 1854-1906.
Date Created: 1854
PID: grinnell:5853

Title: Addie R. Morrison
Description: Photograph showing a young Addie R. Morrison (1880-1963) wearing a dark dress and holding a wide-brimmed hat, standing in front of a backdrop with palm fronds. A note on the back of the photograph reads "Photo of Addie R. Morrison, 11 years, taken June '91. She married Charles F. Chase in 1907. Back of the photo shows the photographer as Gardner, Successor to Child, but the front of the photograph shows Child as the photographer.
Date Created: 1891
PID: grinnell:23274

Title: Address Roster of the 335th Signal Company
Description: Address roster of personnel in the 335th Signal Company in 1945. The list contains the names and home towns of the men in the picture of the company (see https://digital.grinnell.edu/islandora/object/grinnell%3A6516)
Date Created: 1945
PID: grinnell:6515

Title: Aerial Photo of Grinnell 1967
Description: Aerial photo of downtown Grinnell taken by Dave Heise from a helicopter in July 1967 during Ridiculous Days. This view looks to the southeast. The intersection at the bottom of the image, just to the right of center, is the intersection of 6th Avenue and West Street.
Date Created: 1967
PID: grinnell:6230