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Title: Lucas Triplets and the Lucas Family
Description: Typescript containing information on the Lucas triplets and the Lucas family of Grinnell, Iowa. Includes many anecdotes on the life of Henry Lucas who was born into slavery in Virginia which was written by his son John Brown Lucas. The typescript contains part of an article that appeared in the Grinnell Herald on May 20, 1932, and additional information.
Date Created: 1950
PID: grinnell:12202

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: Tickets for Gone With the Wind
Description: Tickets for a Monday, April 8, 1940, 8:00 p.m., showing of Gone With the Wind at the Iowa Theatre in Grinnell, Iowa. Drake Community Library (Grinnell, Iowa) Archives. Pamphlet file : Grinnell (Iowa) -- Historic Buildings -- Theatres.
Date Created: 1940
PID: grinnell:12823

Title: Tribute to Father Mike Tan Creti
Description: Newspaper article honoring Father Mike Tan Creti of St. Paul's Episcopal Church. Photo accompanying article pictures Don Schild, Floyd Beaver, Father Tan Creti, Jane Tan Creti, John DeRooi, Bill Deminoff, Don Howig, Bob Santee and Chris Nielsen.
Date Created: 1973
PID: grinnell:3395

Title: Two Letters, Letter to Raymond Pilgrim from Mildred, Letter to Mildred from Esther Rowe
Description: Two letters in an envelope addressed to Raymond Pilgrim in Lindsay, California, and postmarked February 2, 1913 in Cedar Falls, Iowa. One letter is written by Mildred to Raymond. Mildred encloses a letter that was written to her by Esther Rowe for Raymond to read. Mildred's letter, which is written on I.S.T.C. (Iowa State Teachers College) stationery, describes a fire in a women's rooming house.
Date Created: 1913
PID: grinnell:17771

Title: War Ration Book Two
Description: Ben Tarleton's War Ration Book Two issued by the U.S. Office of Price Administration.
Date Created: 1943
PID: grinnell:12071

Title: Wedding Announcement for Henry W. Spaulding and Aimee Haight
Description: Newspaper clipping announcing the wedding of Henry W. Spaulding and Aimee Haight in Rockford, Illinois, in 1903.
Date Created: 1903
PID: grinnell:5798

Title: West Side of Broad Street between 4th Avenue and Main Street
Description: View of the west side of Broad Street between 4th Avenue and Main Street in Grinnell, Iowa. Talbott's Drug Store on the corner of 4th and Broad. Building blocks are labeled from left to right (south to north) as: Grinnell Block, Gifford and Manly Block, Child Block (909), Stewart Block (911-913), Morse Block (915), Coutts Building, and Miles Bros./Parker. Drake Community Library (Grinnell, Iowa) Archives. Miscellaneous photographs. Collection #17-2, Grinnell Buildings.
Date Created: 1910
PID: grinnell:6485