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Grinnell Area Business Histories
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Quantity: Three items:
1 – 10 ½ x 12 ½ blue-gray container (#1) 32661002107697
1 ‒ standing volume (#2) 32661001783241
1 ‒ black three-ring binder (#3) 32661002139443
Arrangement: alphabetical by title in box; numerical and alphabetical by street in binder
Background Note: Histories of various Grinnell Area businesses, generally anniversary publications. List of Grinnell businesses in 1940 and 1962 compiled by architectural historian James Jacobsen, a consultant for and CEO of History Pays in Des Moines. Jacobsen worked with the City of Grinnell to expand Grinnell’s downtown historic district. (For more information on that project, see “Grinnell (Iowa)—Historic Bldgs : National Register of Historic Places” in the archives pamphlet file.)
For additional information on these companies, see the following files in archives pamphlet file under the “Grinnell (Iowa)—Business/Mfg” heading: Grinnell Mutual Reinsurance; Grinnell Federal Savings and Loan; Wenco /Jeld-Wen; Poweshiek Mutual; and Ramsey-Weeks, Inc.
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See archives pamphlet file:
Grinnell (Iowa)—Historic Bldgs : National Register of Historic Places
Grinnell (Iowa)—Business/Mfg” heading:
Grinnell Mutual Reinsurance;
Grinnell Federal Savings and Loan;
Wenco /Jeld-Wen;
Poweshiek Mutual; and
Ramsey-Weeks, Inc.
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Name of Preparer: Dorrie Lalonde; Claire Davis & Liz Cabelli
Date of Preparation: 12/8/00 &12/20/2010; 2/26/2019