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Title: Poll Tax and Old Age Pension Fund Receipts
Description: Receipts made out to Hilliard Turner and Eldora Turner for the Old Age Pension Fund tax levied for 1936, and to Hilliard Turner for the Poweshiek County Road Poll Tax, also in 1936.
Date Created: 1930
PID: grinnell:3349

Title: Post Office, Gilman, Iowa
Description: The Gilman Post Office building which was used for revival services by the predecessors of the Assembly of God church in Grinnell, Iowa. This building was moved to a location at 619 Broad Street in Grinnell in the early 1930s by Edward B. Wright (on the right in the picture) and George Driscoll (on the left). Edward B. Wright was an evangelist, and he and Driscoll were also house movers.
Date Created: 1930
PID: grinnell:6380

Title: Rexall Drug Store, Grinnell, Iowa
Description: Postcard view of the Rexall Drug Store (Mathews Drug) in the Elk's building at the southeast corner of 4th Avenue and Main Street, Grinnell, Iowa. Cigar store and "Elko Fade-proofed Swim Suits" signs are visible. Drake Community Library (Grinnell, Iowa) Archives. McNally photographs. Collection #1, Series #1-1.
Date Created: 1930
PID: grinnell:6221

Title: South Broad Street, Grinnell, Iowa -- 20
Description: Postcard view looking northwest from Central Park to the 800 block of Broad Street in Grinnell, Iowa. Published by E.C. Kropp Co., Milwaukee, Wis. Drake Community Library (Grinnell, Iowa) Archives. McNally photographs. Collection #1, Series #1-1.
Date Created: 1930
PID: grinnell:6219

Title: St. Mary's Catholic Church
Description: Photograph of St. Mary's Catholic Church on the northeast corner of 5th Avenue and Broad Street in Grinnell, Iowa. The church was built in 1927.
Date Created: 1930
PID: grinnell:3331

Title: Street Fair in Grinnell
Description: Photo of street fair with amusement rides in Grinnell along Main Street. View is looking south from the middle of the 900 block of Main Street. A Tilta Whirl is visible in the foreground. Businesses visible include: J.C. Penney, Alexander Insurance & Real Estate, Rexall Drug, McNallys, Portrait Art Studio, Mullins Pharmacy, Spurgeons, Cut Rate Food Store, Ritter's Hardware. Verso of photo is stamped Portrait Art Studio and the name Geo. Hiser is in pencil. Drake Community Library (Grinnell, Iowa) Archives. McNally photographs. Collection #1, Series #1-2.
Date Created: 1930
PID: grinnell:6375

Title: Swimming lessons
Description: Dorothy Tarleton gives swimming lessons to young girls somewhere in the Grinnell area in the late 1930s.
Date Created: 1930
PID: grinnell:12067

Title: Story of an Old Settler
Description: Newspaper clipping of article written by Jennie Bailey (1858-1937) about her father, James Bailey (1815-1888), and mother, Cornelia Doolittle Bailey (1824-1893) and their life in early Grinnell. James Bailey was an Abolitionist and his home was a station on the Underground Railroad. Other people mentioned include Alfred Bailey, Lorenzo Bailey, Joanna Bailey Baggs, and Dennis and Clark Thompson. Topics discussed include the first saw mill in Grinnell, the Bailey House hotel, the Sugar Creek war, and prairie flora.
Date Created: 1930
PID: grinnell:5828

Title: Y.M.C.A. Cabinet
Description: Y.M.C.A. cabinet, Grinnell High School, Grinnell, Iowa, 1937. Top row, left to right: T. Crews, Eastridge, McKee, Arnold. Bottom row: Phillips, W. Crews, Mr. Hawk, Gallagher, Swaney. This photo appears in the 1930 Grinnell High School yearbook, The Grinnellian, on p. 27. Drake Community Library (Grinnell, Iowa) Archives. Miscellaneous photographs. Collection #17-6, People.
Date Created: 1930
PID: grinnell:13093