Drake Community Library Archives

Digitized copies of materials from the Drake Community Library archives. Includes photographs and documents related to the history of the Grinnell community, businesses and organizations.

grinnell:6443
Color postcard view of Stewart Library and the Congregational Church in Grinnell, Iowa, around 1907. Card produced by C.E. Wheelock & Co., Peoria, Illinois. Drake Community Library (Grinnell, Iowa) Archives. Miscellaneous photographs. Collection #17-1, Stewart Library.
grinnell:6080
Photograph taken looking east from 4th Avenue and Broad Street, Grinnell, Iowa. Central Park is visible with the first bandstand in the lower right. Mud streets and brick sidewalks. Horses and carriages and wagons in the street. Horses drinking at a water fountain in the lower right. A man is mowing the grass in the park with a reel mower. Monroe Hotel is faintly visible through the trees in the park, as are several other residences on the east side of the park. Electric street lamp visible at center top of picture. Probably photographed by F.J. Bandholtz in 1907. Drake Community Library Archives. Oversize photos. McNally photograph, series #1-2.
grinnell:6075
Photograph of downtown looking north on Broad Street from 4th Avenue in Grinnell, Iowa. Horse-drawn carriages at hitching posts, mud street. Stewart Library is in the background, but the post office has not been built yet which dates the picture as 1902-1916. Probably photographed by F. J. Bandholtz in 1907. Drake Community Library Archives. Oversize photos. McNally photographs, series # 1-2.
grinnell:6079
Photograph taken at the intersection of 4th Avenue and Broad Street in Grinnell, Iowa, looking south. Central Park is visible to the left, mud streets with board walks, horses and carriages in the street. Visible businesses include: McMurray & Rinefort Clothers; Floyd Bray, Attorney-at-Law; Viets & Yeager Drugs and Russ's. Copyright 1907 by F.J. Bandholtz, Des Moines, Ia. McNally photograph, series #1-2.
grinnell:6214
Postcard view looking south on Main Street from Fourth Avenue in Grinnell, Iowa, in 1907. Copyrighted 1907 by F.J. Bandholtz, Publisher, Des Moines, Iowa. Drake Community Library (Grinnell, Iowa) Archives. McNally photographs. Collection #1, Series #1-1.
grinnell:11804
Postcard view of the Men's Gymnasium on the Grinnell College campus in Grinnell, Iowa. Kruxo postcard. Drake Community Library (Grinnell, Iowa) Archives. Miscellaneous photographs. Collection #17-3, Grinnell College.
grinnell:6521
Image of Merchants National Bank on the northwest corner of Commercial Avenue and Broad Street in Grinnell, Iowa, about 1907. Drake Community Library (Grinnell, Iowa) Archives. Miscellaneous photographs. Collection #17-2, Grinnell Buildings.
grinnell:6525
Postcard view of the Monroe Hotel in Grinnell, Iowa. The J.B. Grinnell house is just visible on the left of the photo. This was the original location of the house before it was moved to Broad Street south of the railroad tracks. Drake Community Library (Grinnell, Iowa) Archives. Miscellaneous photographs. Collection #17-2, Grinnell Buildings.
grinnell:6526
Postcard view of the Monroe Hotel in Grinnell, Iowa. Kruxo postcard. Drake Community Library (Grinnell, Iowa) Archives. Miscellaneous photographs. Collection #17-2, Grinnell Buildings.
grinnell:6164
Northwest corner of Commercial and Broad Streets, Grinnell, Iowa, 1907. Central Park in foreground. Horses and buggies on mud streets. Drake Community Library (Grinnell, Iowa) Archives. McNally photographs. Collection #1, Series #1-3.
grinnell:6191
Postcard view of Grinnell, Iowa, looking east from the intersection of 4th Avenue and Main Street. Mud streets, horse and buggies at hitching posts, electrical poles along streets. Labeled "Spring 1907." Drake Community Library (Grinnell, Iowa) Archives. McNally photographs. Collection #1, Series #1-1.
grinnell:6233
View of Stewart Library (to the left) and Center School (in the background to the right). People are gathered along the street possibly watching a parade. In the street a carriage is pulled by ponies wearing bridle plumes. Drake Community Library (Grinnell, Iowa) Archives. McNally photographs. Collection #1, Series #1-1.
grinnell:12974
View of Grinnell State Bank at 825 4th Avenue on the north side of the street in 1908. Among the men standing in front are Carl Childs, Sam Pooley, and Geo. Walker.
grinnell:6530
Color postcard view of the south face of Grinnell High School in Grinnell, Iowa from Central Park. Postcard published by Jno. T. Faber Publisher, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and addressed to Miss Lillian Bixby in Camden, Maine. Postmarked April 14, 1908, Grinnell, Iowa, and April 16, 1908, Camden, Maine. Signed by Mary Robison, Grinnell, Iowa. Drake Community Library (Grinnell, Iowa) Archives. Miscellaneous photographs. Collection #17-2, Grinnell Buildings.
grinnell:11793
Color postcard of the Grinnell College campus in Grinnell, Iowa, in portrait view. No buildings are visible, only trees. Postcard is addressed to Mrs. H.M. Benson, Ames, Iowa, and is postmarked August 3, 1908, in Iowa City, Iowa. Postcard is published by Suhling Company, Chicago. Drake Community Library (Grinnell, Iowa) Archives. Miscellaneous photographs. Collection #17-3, Grinnell College.
grinnell:6236
Postcard view of the east side of Main Street in Grinnell, Iowa, looking north from 4th Avenue. Card is addressed to Mrs. Jennie C. Davis, Searsboro, Iowa, and is postmarked June 11, 1908. Postcard published by Jon T. Faber, Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Drake Community Library (Grinnell, Iowa) Archives. McNally photographs. Collection #1, Series #1-1.
grinnell:6447
Postcard view of Stewart Library and the Congregational Church in Grinnell, Iowa. Card is addressed to Cora Miller at the Hotel Davenport and postmarked September 5, 1908, Grinnell, Iowa; signed by Sadie Gurn. Card was published by S. Langsdorf & Co., New York and produced in Germany. Number S. 1611. Drake Community Library (Grinnell, Iowa) Archives. Miscellaneous photographs. Collection #17-1, Stewart Library.
grinnell:6438
Color postcard view of Stewart Library in Grinnell, Iowa. Card is addressed to Miss Edith Eldridge, Colfax, Iowa, and postmarked Grinnell, Iowa, August 11, 1908. Postcard published by Jno. T. Faber, Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Drake Community Library (Grinnell, Iowa) Archives. Miscellaneous photographs. Collection #17-1, Stewart Library.
grinnell:5225
Program of the 37th annual convention of the Iowa Equal Suffrage Association held in Boone, Iowa, on October 27-29, 1908. Drake Community Library (Grinnell, Iowa) Archives. Collection #161.
grinnell:6220
Postcard view looking northwest from Central Park at the 800 block of Broad Street in Grinnell, Iowa. Card is addressed to Miss Nora Murphy, Grinnell, Iowa, and postmarked September 24, 1909, Grinnell, Iowa. Drake Community Library (Grinnell, Iowa) Archives. McNally photographs. Collection #1, Series #1-1.