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Title: Diving at Lake Okoboji, Arnold's Park, Iowa
Description: Children diving off of wooden diving board in Lake Okoboji. Boat in the background. Number 26.
Date Created: 1945
PID: grinnell:14241

Title: East side Main Street, Atkins, Iowa, Atkins Post Office
Description: Looking northeast at a one-story wooden post office on the right established in 1902 in Atkins, Iowa.
Date Created: 1905
PID: grinnell:14236

Title: Frontier Inn, Atkins, Iowa, Freeman, Virgil
Description: Seven miles west of Cedar Rapids on Highway 30.--t.p. verso. The Frontier Inn was originally built and operated by Virgil and Ann Freeman in the mid-1950's in Newhall, Iowa and was relocated to Highway 30 near Atkins, Iowa in 1959.
Date Created: 1955
PID: grinnell:14579

Title: Steiner Hall, Herrick Chapel and Christian Associations Building, Iowa College, [Grinnell, Iowa], Herrick Chapel & Christian Associations Building, Iowa College, [Grinnell, Iowa]
Description: Looking southeast.
Date Created: 1920
PID: grinnell:13635

Title: High school, Atlantic, Iowa, Atlantic High School
Description: The Atlantic High School was the second high school building in the town. The first high school was constructed in 1878, and a large addition was constructed in 1912. Population growth and the need for modern facilities necessitated the construction of a new high school. In July of 1935 the school board resolved to apply for a Public Works Administration (PWA) grant. There was a successful campaign for the new high school; in November a $160,000 bond issue was approved. Ground was broken in 1936, and the school was finished in May of 1937, opening in the fall of that year. Located at 1100 Linn Street, Atlantic, Cass County, Iowa. Listed in the National Register of Historic Places. Number 3772.
Date Created: 1940
PID: grinnell:14235

Title: High school, Grinnell, Iowa
Description: Looking northeast from Fourth Avenue. The first Grinnell high school was built in 1904. An addition that expanded the building to include junior high students was completed in 1921. Number 21160. Series 1. It now houses the Grinnell Community Center.
Date Created: 1950
PID: grinnell:13812

Title: High school, Newton, Iowa
Description: The Newton High School was erected just west from Central school building in 1907/1908 at a cost of $72,000. It was built on the most modern and approved plans for school buildings, even to the items of sanitary drinking fountains. The building was later known as the west building of Central Junior High and in 1983 it was razed and the site sold. Number 5020.
Date Created: 1935
PID: grinnell:14326

Title: I.C. wreck, May 29, 1918, Aplington, Iowa, Illinois Central train wreck
Description: Men inspecting the remains of a train wreck. "Five persons were killed and a dozen injured when Illinois Central passenger train No. 11, westbound, was wrecked near Aplington. The track was weakened by the high water, the locomotive and mail car plunging onto the bank and the combination express and smoker turned over." Cited from the Oakland Tribune, Oakland, CA, 29 May 1918. 1918 postmark.
Date Created: 1918
PID: grinnell:13944

Title: I.C. wreck, May 29, 1918, Aplington, Iowa, Illinois Central train wreck
Description: Men looking through the remains of a train wreck with onlookers in the background. "Five persons were killed and a dozen injured when Illinois Central passenger train No. 11, westbound, was wrecked near Aplington. The track was weakened by the high water, the locomotive and mail car plunging onto the bank and the combination express and smoker turned over." Cited from the Oakland Tribune, Oakland, CA, 29 May 1918. 1918 postmark.
Date Created: 1918
PID: grinnell:13946