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Fighting Fire at Grinnell, Ia. -- 52 --

Postcard view of men fighting a house fire while spectators look on.The house is identified on the verso as 172 3rd Avenue, Grinnell, Iowa, but it is actually 633 Main Street on the southwest corner of 2nd Avenue and Main Street. This view is looking north and slightly west from the south side towards 2nd Avenue. Sometime in the 1970s the decorative corbels and the belt course were removed, the porches were altered, and the house was covered in aluminum siding. Kruxo postcard. Drake Community Library (Grinnell, Iowa) Archives. Miscellaneous photographs. Collection #17-2, Grinnell Buildings.
Title Fighting Fire at Grinnell, Ia. -- 52 --
Index Date 1910
Publisher Poweshiek History Preservation Project
Genre postcard
Digital Origin digitized other analog
Extent 1 sheet
Media Type image/tiff
Provenance Drake Community Library (Grinnell, Iowa) Archives
Language English
Topic Architecture, Domestic
Topic Dwellings--Fires and fire prevention
Geographic Grinnell (Iowa)
Keyword 1910s
Keyword Grinnell
Related Item Poweshiek History Preservation Project
Related Item Drake Community Library (Grinnell, Iowa) Archives
Related Item Digital Grinnell
Identifier (hdl) http://hdl.handle.net/11084/6510
Identifier (local) grinnell:6510
Access Condition Copyright to this work is held by the author(s), in accordance with United States copyright law (USC 17). Readers of this work have certain rights as defined by the law, including but not limited to fair use (17 USC 107 et seq.).
Type of Resource still image
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