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Home of Hon. J.B. Grinnell, Grinnell, Iowa

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Looking east from Central Park. Home of J.B. Grinnell and his wife Julia. The cellar was a registered stop in the Underground Railroad. A portion of the house was moved to Broad Street south of Third Avenue until the late 1970's. 1908 postmark.
Title Home of Hon. J.B. Grinnell, Grinnell, Iowa
Supporting Host Grinnell College Libraries Special Collections
Index Date 1908
Date Captured 6/20/07
Type of Resource still image
Genre Postcards
Provenance Purchased from Ivan Sheets
reproduction info Scanned with HP Scanjet 4670 at 600 ppi. Archival master image available in tiff format.
Date Issued 1908?
Topic Poweshiek County (Iowa)
Topic Grinnell (Iowa)
Topic Residential streets
Topic Residential facilities
Topic Houses
Topic Grinnell, Josiah Bushnell, 1821-1891
Classification MS 107, http://libweb.grinnell.edu/archives/index.php?p=collections/findingaid&id=144
Related Item Ivan Sheets Collection
Identifier (local) ms107_grire007
Identifier (local) grinnell:14513
Access Condition Grinnell College Libraries does not own the copyright in these images and therefore cannot give or deny permission to publish or distribute any of them. It is the researcher's responsibility to determine and satisfy copyright or other use restrictions when publishing or distributing material from this collection. Any materials used must carry a credit line: Historic Iowa Postcard Collection, Special Collections and Archives, Grinnell College Libraries.
Identifier (hdl) http://hdl.handle.net/11084/14513
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