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Title: City Hall and fire station, Grinnell, Iowa
Description: Looking south from Commercial Street at fire engine and firemen. Bell tower on building. The fire station served from 1889 to 1957, when a new station was built on Fourth Avenue.
Date Created: 1920
PID: grinnell:14522

Title: Central Park, City Park, Grinnell, Iowa
Description: Looking northwest at Central Park from Third Avenue at Broad Street and park.
Date Created: 1920
PID: grinnell:13900

Title: E.W. Clark Memorial Fountain, Central Park, Clark's Memorial Fountain, Grinnell, Iowa
Description: Looking southeast from Broad Street at fountain and park. This fountain was built in 1911 and dismantled in 1959. Named for local physician E.W. Clark.
Date Created: 1920
PID: grinnell:13441

Title: Grinnell Hospital, Grinnell, Iowa
Description: Looking west from Park Street. Grinnell's first municipal hospital was opened in 1908 at Sixth Avenue & Elm Street. The building is now a private residence.e. Number 938.
Date Created: 1920
PID: grinnell:14527

Title: Grinnell Washing Machine Company, Grinnell, Iowa
Description: Looking southwest. The Grinnell Washing Machine Company was established in Grinnell in 1909 with a successful run in washing machines. However, due to poor admiistration, it went bankrupt in 1937. Number 132.
Date Created: 1920
PID: grinnell:13988

Title: U.S. Club, Grinnell from Robinson's monoplane, Grinnell, Iowa
Description: Looking south at Main Street, Broad Street, Spring Street and West Street. 1914 postmark. W.C. "Billy" Robinson was an early aviator who set an American nonstop distance flight record in 1914. He became the second officially appointed air mail carrier in the U.S. He built his own airplane & invented a rotary airplane engine. Robinson was killed in 1916 at age 31 in a plane crash while attempting to set an altitude record.
Date Created: 1920
PID: grinnell:13663

Title: Headquarters, Camp King Abbott Troop D, Est. Iowa Cavalry, Grinnell, Iowa
Description: Military tents set up on the Grinnell High School footbal field by the Iowa Cavalry from Camp King Abbott Troop D.
Date Created: 1920
PID: grinnell:14375

Title: Home of Georgiana Holloway, Grinnell, Iowa
Description: Home of Georgiana Holloway, Grinnell College graduate and "prominent grade school teacher for many years."--photo verso. Title supplied by cataloger.
Date Created: 1920
PID: grinnell:13983

Title: Grinnell High School, Interior of Spaulding factory, Grinnell, Iowa
Description: Interior of Spaulding Factory with workers assemblying automobiles. Originally started manufacturing buggies, the Spaulding Manufacturing Company introduced the first Spaulding automobile in 1909. Title supplied by cataloger. However, the Spaulding automobile never caught on and the last vehicle was made in 1916. Listed in the National Register of Historic Places.
Date Created: 1920
PID: grinnell:13557

Title: Poweshiek County National Bank, Poweshiek County Bank, Brenton Bank, Wells Fargo Bank, Merchants National Bank, Grinnell, Iowa
Description: Looking north. Built in 1914 by Louis H. Sullivan, "father of the American skyscraper", the Merchant's National Bank was one of a number of "jewel box" banks built in small midwestern communities.
Date Created: 1920
PID: grinnell:13392