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Title: Broad Street between 4th Avenue and Commercial Street, Grinnell, Iowa
Description: Looking southwest along Broad Street in Grinnell, Iowa, between 4th Avenue and Commercial Street. Businesses visible include: Yeager & Stoakes Jewelry, Brock Bros. Dentists, and Storm's. Automobiles and a bicycle parked along the street. Drake Community Library (Grinnell, Iowa) Archives. Miscellaneous photographs. Collection #17-2, Grinnell Buildings.
PID: grinnell:5634

Title: Corrough Block, 901 Main Street, Grinnell, Iowa
Description: Photograph of the Corrough Block at 901 Main Street (northwest corner of 4th and Main) in Grinnell, Iowa. Built in 1900 in Romanesque style; the building was significant for its use of stone and brick. The Main Street facade features rusticated stone. The Fourth Avenue facade is constructed of rough textured burgundy brick on the lower level and smooth-moulded buff colored brick on the upper level. The oriel window on the second floor was where the dental chair sat because of the good lighting. Photo also features man and woman standing outside of bank. Horses and buggies in the street. Boardwalk across the unpaved street. Visible businesses include F.A. Palmer Dentist, Lanphere Land co., Gallagher Dentist, and a drug store. Drake Community Library (Grinnell, Iowa) Archives. Miscellaneous photographs. Collection #17-2, Grinnell Buildings.
PID: grinnell:5636

Title: Grinnell College Student Activities in Front of Poweshiek County National Bank
Description: Grinnell College student activities in front of Poweshiek County National Bank (Grinnell, Iowa) ca. 1950-1954. Student dressed as snake charmer and student in safari hat and clothes. Poweshiek County Bank griffin in the background.
PID: grinnell:5687

Title: Southwest Corner of Broad Street and Commerical Street, Grinnell, Iowa
Description: Photograph of the southwest corner of Broad Street and Commerical Street, Grinnell, Iowa, about 1910. Store is home to the W.W. Kimball Piano Co. dealership which is advertising pianos, sewing machines, and organs for sale. Two women in a horse and buggy on the dirt street. Man standing in the doorway of the store. Building block is 1889 Black(?) Drake Community Library (Grinnell, Iowa) Archives. Collection # 17, Box # 1.
PID: grinnell:5638