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Title: Grinnell Gathering
Description: Postcard view of a group of men, women, and children holding a sign which reads, "Grinnell." Tents are visible in the background. The postcard appears to be from the early 1900s but it was sent through the U.S. mail in 2006 to Lorna Caulkins from Jim and Eileen Sanders. Drake Community Library (Grinnell, Iowa) Archives. Miscellaneous photographs. Collection #17-6, People.
Date Created: 1910
PID: grinnell:13114

Title: Grinnell Savings Bank Parade Car
Description: Postcard view of a car decorated for a parade advertising the Grinnell Savings Bank. The side of the car is decorated to read: $600,000 / Grinnell Savings Bank / Let our bank be your bank. An American flag is draped over the hood. Photo by Child. Azo stamp box on verso. Drake Community Library (Grinnell, Iowa) Archives. Miscellaneous photographs. Collection #17-5, Views of Grinnell.
Date Created: 1917
PID: grinnell:12383

Title: Grinnell Savings Bank Passbook
Description: Grinnell Savings Bank(Iowa) passbook belonging to Raymond Estel Pilgrim showing deposits made in 1918 and 1919.
Date Created: 1918
PID: grinnell:17770

Title: High School, Montezuma, Ia.
Description: Colored postcard view of Montezuma High School in Montezuma, Iowa. Postcard is addressed to Mrs. Oral Sparks, Clio, Iowa, and postmarked 1913.
Date Created: 1913
PID: grinnell:6251

Title: History and Genealogy of Bailey and Baggs Families
Description: Ten pages of handwritten notes detailing the history and genealogy of the James Fordyce Bailey family and the George Thomas Baggs family. This is probably a draft of the entry for James Fordyce Bailey in Leonard Fletcher Parker's History of Poweshiek County, Iowa.
Date Created: 1910
PID: grinnell:5851

Title: Kitchen at the Monroe Hotel
Description: A view of the kitchen at the Monroe Hotel in Grinnell, Iowa. Lee Augustus Renfrow, a cook at the hotel, is at the right behind the shelves. Lee was Edith Renfrow Smith's father.
Date Created: 1910
PID: grinnell:12139

Title: Letter from Charles Noble to Frank Burns
Description: Letter from Charles Noble, professor of English at Grinnell College and a minister, to Frank R. Burns, confirming that Professor Noble will perform a marriage ceremony for Frank and Mae Hammond on June 1, 1918, at the Hammond home in Grinnell, Iowa.
Date Created: 1918
PID: grinnell:20661

Title: Lidtka Farm House with Ed Lidtka Holding a Baby
Description: Photograph of Ed Lidtka holding a baby and standing in front of the Lidtka farm house, south of Grinnell, Iowa. The house was built by Ed Lidtka in 1913. The baby is probably Aline Lidtka, born in December of 1916. Photograph was probably taken in 1917.
Date Created: 1917
PID: grinnell:3367

Title: Lidtka Farm View with Barnyard
Description: Photograph of the Lidtka barn, barnyard, pump, and chickens on the Lidtka farm south of Grinnell, Iowa.
Date Created: 1913
PID: grinnell:3368

Title: Lidtka Farm View with Horses
Description: Photograph of Ed Lidtka posing with two horses in front of the barn on the Lidtka farm. Photograph was taken in the late 1910s. Written on the back of the photograph is "Dad and the horses. South of Grinnell".
Date Created: 1910
PID: grinnell:3366