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Title
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U.S. Club, Grinnell from Robinson's monoplane, Grinnell, Iowa
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Description
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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.
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Date Created
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1920
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PID
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grinnell:13663
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Title
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Main Street looking east, Sully, Iowa
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Description
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Looking east down Main Street at the general store and the drug store with several cars and persons out front.
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Date Created
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1920
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PID
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grinnell:14305
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Title
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Main Street, Ames, Iowa, Cooley & Jones
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Description
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Looking west on Main Street at street trolley tracks. Cooley & Jones Harness shop is on the left. Title supplied by cataloger.
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Date Created
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1920
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PID
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grinnell:13874
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Title
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Main Street, Ashton, Iowa, Third Street Bridge
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Description
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Looking east at the business district in Ashton, Iowa. The third street truss bridge, built in 1907 by the Canton Bridge Co., of Canton, Ohio, is shown in the background which spans Otter Creek. Originally named St. Gilman, Iowa, in 1872 and renamed Ashton, Iowa, in 1882 after May Ashton, the daughter of a railroad man who traveled in the area. The town was incorporated in 1885.
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Date Created
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1920
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PID
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grinnell:14580
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Title
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Main Street, Cleghorn, Iowa, South Lewis Avenue
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Description
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Looking north on Main Street (now South Lewis Avenue) at a hardware store, meat market, millinery shop, and doctor's office on the left, and the post office and drug store on the right.
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Date Created
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1920
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PID
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grinnell:14037