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ObjectID	Object Description
2018.021.068 Print, Photographic	This photograph was taken during the 12th Annual Diagonal Street Fair held in Diagonal, Iowa, between August 19 and August 21, 1925. During this fair, the Babe La Neal trapeze team performed and… Read More
2018.021.069 Sign, Traffic	This photograph shows one of the street corners located near the town square in Mount Ayr, Iowa. The small sign located next to the mule-drawn carriage in the street states "Keep to the Right." Mount… Read More
2018.021.070 Station, Service	This service station in Tingley, Iowa, William Brookman in 1923 and sold to E. M. Breckenridge in 1924. Between 1924 and 2006, the station went through eight different owners. The station's last… Read More
2018.021.071 Truck	This photograph shows the north side of the Mount Ayr town square in the mid-1940s. The truck in the middle of the street is a Mount Ayr Mill & Feed delivery truck. Three different Coca-Cola… Read More
2018.021.072 Church	This photograph shows the High Point Methodist Episcopal Church as it appeared around 1912. This rural church was constructed in Ringgold County in 1874, and it was located about one mile east of the… Read More
2018.021.073 Depot, Railroad	This photograph shows the Humeston & Shenandoah railroad depot at Tingley, Iowa. Before the town of Tingley was formed, a rural post office named after Tingley Cornwall, a pioneer farmer, was… Read More
2018.021.074 Bank	This photograph shows the east side of the townsquare in Redding, Iowa. The Union Savings Bank located on the street corner was created in 1908 when two banks, the Peoples Bank and the Redding Bank,… Read More
2018.021.075 Print, Photographic	This photograph shows the Diagonal Maroons boys' basketball team (center) being honored after winning State Class B Boys Basketball Tournament in 1938. The team was coached by Omer Clay "Pop" Varner… Read More
2018.021.076 Store, General	This photograph shows Mount Ayr resident W. A. Simpson's dry goods store in Mount Ayr, Iowa. This building was built in 1886 after a fire destroyed the buildings that previously stood at this… Read More
2018.021.077 School	This photograph shows the high school in Knowlton, Iowa, as it appeared in around 1914. The school was built in 1891 for a cost of $3,000. The Knowlton school graduated its last class in 1920;… Read More
2018.021.078 Church	St. John's Catholic Church in Diagonal, Iowa, was built and dedicated between 1909 and 1910. Father M. J. Culhane arrived at the church in 1922 and served in Diagonal until the church closed in 1970… Read More
2018.021.079 Church	The Free Methodist Church in Mount Ayr, Iowa, was built in 1951. The Mount Ayr Free Methodists spent many years meeting in schools and other buildings, and this new church provided them a place to… Read More
2018.021.080 Print, Photographic	This photograph shows Ringgold County's first Sheriff's Posse, which was a group of citizens that Sheriff Elbert Strange recruited to help him maintain law and order in Ringgold County. Content can… Read More
2018.021.081 Print, Photographic	On June 24, 1909, a benefit baseball game was played between two teams of Mount Ayr, Iowa, businessmen nicknamed the "Fats" and the "Leans." The proceeds from this game went to the Rose Hill Cemetery… Read More
2018.021.082 Home, County	The Ringgold County County Home was constructed in 1922. The public housing project lasted until 1939, when the Ringgold County Board of Supervisors sold the building and adjoining grounds in the… Read More
2018.021.083 Church	The Middle Fork Methodist Episcopal Church in Middle Fork Township was constructed in 1886. This photograph shows the church as it appeared in the early 1940s. On November 29, 1990, the church was… Read More
2018.021.084 Portrait	This photograph shows Ringgold County artist Orr Cleveland Fisher working on a portrait of Willis Ray "Willie" Willey in the early 1920s. "Willie" and his twin brother Willard Roy Willey were born… Read More
2018.021.085 Float, Parade	This photograph was taken during the Ringgold County Centennial held in Mount Ayr, Iowa, in 1955. The parade float in the photo was entered by the County Soil Conservation District and was… Read More
2018.021.086 Portrait	This photograph shows Dr. Thomas Irven Moffett at the Cross Service Station in Ames, Iowa, around 1950. Moffett was born February 9, 1893 in Harrison County, Missouri, and attended schools in… Read More
2018.021.087 Store, Hardware	This photograph shows Charles William "Bill" Horne in his hardware store at 106 E. Madison in Mount Ayr, Iowa. Horne's Hardware was started in 1928 when Horne's grandfather, Charlie Horne, bought… Read More
2018.021.088 Print, Photographic	The large brick building in this photograph was built by William Timby in Mount Ayr, Iowa, in 1884. The building had four storefronts and housed hundreds of businesses over the following decades. The… Read More
2018.022.001 Print, Photographic	This photograph shows Frank Adler and two of his brothers, Ed and Walt, dressed in United States military uniform outfits. Frank Adler, who later used the stage name Felix Adler, was born in Clinton… Read More
2018.022.002 Flier	This flier advertised Frank Adler's comedy act, which he started in 1910. The flier referred to Adler as the "Champion Gloom-Dispeller," which was just one of the nicknames he earned throughout his… Read More
2018.022.003 Print, Photographic	This photograph shows Frank Adler in his military uniform. Adler joined the Army during World War I began and served as a mess sergeant at Camp Dodge in Des Moines, Iowa. Frank Adler, who later used… Read More
2018.022.004 Card, Advertising	This card promoted Frank Adler's "Funny Felix the Clown" act for the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey circus. Adler started this acted and took the stage name Felix after his military service… Read More