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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: Grant #1
Description: Photograph of Grant School #1, Poweshiek County, Iowa. For more information see Grinnell Area Rural Schools. Drake Community Library Archives, Collection #24.
PID: grinnell:6088

Title: Grant #2
Description: Photograph of Grant School #2, Poweshiek County, Iowa. For more information see Grinnell Area Rural Schools. Drake Community Library Archives, Collection #24.
PID: grinnell:6089

Title: Grant #5
Description: Photograph of Grant School #5, Poweshiek County, Iowa. For more information see Grinnell Area Rural Schools. Drake Community Library Archives, Collection #24.
PID: grinnell:6090

Title: Grant #9
Description: Probably Grant #9 schoolhouse located in Grant Township, Poweshiek County, Iowa. Drake Community Library (Grinnell, Iowa) Archives. Miscellaneous photographs. Collection #24, Rural Schools.
PID: grinnell:18839

Title: Ledger of the Julia Chapin Grinnell Maternal Association
Description: The Julia Chapin Grinnell Maternal Association was established in 1902 with membership open to anyone interested in the training of children or in "preparation for motherhood." Meetings and lectures were sponsored with local school teachers and lists of children's names compiled so that the membership might pray for them in their birth months. The Ledger contains the constitution, list of members, and minutes from September 1902 - January 1910. A list of names with years in the back may be the list of children's names described above. Drake Community Library (Grinnell, Iowa) Archives. Collection #76.
PID: grinnell:5212

Title: Records of the Grinnell Political Equality Club
Description: Minutes of the Grinnell Political Equality Club from March 15, 1897 - October 8, 1908. The Club was formed on March 15, 1897. Although its avowed purpose was the passage of the 19th Amendment, the club also met to hear and discuss topics of interest and to interview candidates about women's suffrage. Drake Community Library (Grinnell, Iowa) Archives. Collection #161.
PID: grinnell:5219

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