Photograph of a "carnivalesque" in the backyard of the Ross residence at 817 Seventh Avenue, taken in the early 1900s. Bicyclists rode around the inner perimeter of the structure, made of wooden slats held erect by guide wires on a concrete slab.
Title
817 Seventh Avenue
Alternative Title
Man on a "carnivalesque" cycling structure in the backyard of R. C. Ross residence
owner
Ross, R.C.
Index Date
1900
photographed
1900-1910
Publisher
Grinnell College
Note
The cycling structure was built by either R. C. Ross or his son. The Ross family ran a shoe store and owned the Grinnell Stone Company at 615-631 State Street, which manufactured red-tinted blocks used for a few houses in Grinnell (1114 Broad, 817 Seventh Avenue, and 1310 Main Street). In the background of the photograph, portions of the houses at 1206 Broad Street (center) and 1203-1205 Broad Street (L. C. Phelps house, right) are visible.
Provenance
Gift of John Kleinschmidt, 1997
Topic
Architecture--United States
Topic
Cycling
Geographic
Grinnell (Iowa)
Geographic
Poweshiek County (Iowa)
Temporal
Nineteen hundreds (Decade)
Related Item
John Kleinschmidt Collection
Related Item
Digital Grinnell
Genre
Photographs
Extent
1 photograph, b&w, 17.5 x 12.5 cm
Media Type
image/tiff
Digital Origin
digitized other analog
Language
English
Identifier (local)
grinnell:3285
Identifier (hdl)
http://hdl.handle.net/11084/3285
Physical Location
Grinnell College Libraries Special Collections
Shelf Locator
MS 39, Series 3 Photographs, Box 1A: Residential
Access Condition
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