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Title: Two people on Horseback, 2 People on Horseback
Description: Two people on horseback in the 1949 Grinnell Day Parade in Grinnell, Iowa. The two people are dressed in red coats with headbands or hats on. Drake Community Library (Grinnell, Iowa) Archives. Chamber of Commerce Slides, p.2, slide 17.
Date Created: 1948
PID: grinnell:19249

Title: Valentine's Dance 1955
Description: Grinnell College students at a Valentine's Day dance in 1955, probably in one of the gymnasiums. The Jack Oatts band is playing in the background. From Joanne M. Bunge's Grinnell College student scrapbook, 1952-1956.
Date Created: 1955
PID: grinnell:12955

Title: Vel-Hi Kennels Float in 1949 Grinnell Day Parade
Description: The Vel-Hi Kennels parade float in the 1949 Grinnell Day Parade in Grinnell Iowa. Vel-Hi Kennels bred and showed boxers and two of their dogs can be seen on the float along with two people, probably Velma Hiser and her husband George Hiser, the owners of the kennels. Drake Community Library (Grinnell, Iowa) Archives. Chamber of Commerce Slides, p.7, slide 13.
Date Created: 1949
PID: grinnell:19298

Title: Veterans of Foreign Wars Parade Car in 1949 Grinnell Day Parade
Description: The Veterans of Foreign Wars parade car in the 1949 Grinnell Day Parade in Grinnell, Iowa. The car is green and yellow decorated with red and white streamers with several small American flags. Drake Community Library (Grinnell, Iowa) Archives. Chamber of Commerce Slides, p.7, slide 11.
Date Created: 1949
PID: grinnell:19296

Title: View of Bates Flowers' Float in 1949 Grinnell Day Parade
Description: A view of the Bates Flowers' parade float in the 1949 Grinnell Day Parade in Grinnell, Iowa. The Congregational (Old Stone) Church is visible in the background. Drake Community Library (Grinnell, Iowa) Archives. Chamber of Commerce Slides, p.7, slide 20.
Date Created: 1949
PID: grinnell:19305

Title: Views of the Grinnell Cyclone of June 17th 1882
Description: Nine photographs of the devastation wreaked by the cyclone of June 17, 1882, in Grinnell, Iowa. Photographs are by Child Photographer, Grinnell. Each photo has the name "Evelyn Spencer Bray" written on the verso. Drake Community Library (Grinnell, Iowa) Archives. Miscellaneous photographs. Collection 18, Views of the Grinnell Cyclone.
Date Created: 1882
PID: grinnell:13181

Title: Vocational Education Float in 1948 Grinnell Day Parade
Description: A parade float for "vocational education: homemaking, agriculture" in the 1948 Grinnell Day Parade in Grinnell, Iowa. The float is wooden with a woman in white next to a picnic table with corn shocks behind her. On the other side of the corn shocks are three men holding a navy and yellow banner and farm tools. The float is pulled by a man in a white shirt on a tractor. Drake Community Library (Grinnell, Iowa) Archives. Chamber of Commerce Slides, p.1, slide 17.
Date Created: 1948
PID: grinnell:19237

Title: Wagon Filled with Hay and People in the 1949 Grinnell Day Parade
Description: Wagon with thirteen people in it sitting on hay in the 1949 Grinnell Day Parade in Grinnell, Iowa. The wagon is pulled by a float with two men on it standing around a table. Part of a banner is visible on the float and it reads: "Education" while the banner on the wagon reads: "Recreation." Drake Community Library (Grinnell, Iowa) Archives. Chamber of Commerce Slides, p.4, slide 4.
Date Created: 1949
PID: grinnell:19271

Title: Waiting for President Truman
Description: Grinnellians gathered at the railroad crossing at Park Street and 3rd Avenue on September 18, 1948, waiting for President Truman. Grinnell Railway Express building is visible on the left; Monroe Hotel is visible in the background. Note: Photo is mislabeled "Waiting for President Eisenhower." Drake Community Library (Grinnell, Iowa) Archives. McNally photographs. Collection #1, Series #1-3.
Date Created: 1948
PID: grinnell:6178

Title: Wayne Feeds Float in 1949 Grinnell Day Parade
Description: Three women sitting in chairs wearing full length gowns with a banner on the side of the float that says,"Wayne Feeds" in the 1949 Grinnell Day Parade in Grinnell, Iowa. Drake Community Library (Grinnell, Iowa) Archives. Chamber of Commerce Slides, p.5, slide 16.
Date Created: 1949
PID: grinnell:19278