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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.
Date Created: 1900
PID: grinnell:5634

Title: Fourth Avenue E., Grinnell, Iowa, 4th Avenue E., Grinnell, Iowa
Description: Postcard view of the north side of Fourth Avenue in Grinnell, Iowa, looking east from the corner of 4th Avenue and Main Street. Horse and carriage in the street, prominent electrical poles and lines, Congregational Church steeple in background. Postmarked September 29, 1913, in Grinnell, Iowa. Addressed to Mrs. Ida Williams, Windsor, Vermont.
Date Created: 1913
PID: grinnell:5937

Title: Nelson & Sons Sample Day, Grinnell, Iowa
Description: Photograph of 816-818 4th Avenue, Grinnell, Iowa, on Nelson & Sons sample day. Goods are piled on the sidewalk. Signs in the windows advertise 5 cent loaves of Liza Jane bread, 5 cent packages of Wrigley's Spearmint Gum, skeins of Ideal Nun's Pearl Luster and items to be given away free on Thursday, April 20. Salesmen and women sitting and standing in the doorways. Drake Community Library (Grinnell, Iowa) Archives. Collection # 17, Box # 1.
Date Created: 1900
PID: grinnell:5637

Title: Southwest Corner of Broad Street and Commercial Street, Grinnell, Iowa
Description: Photograph of the southwest corner of Broad Street and Commercial 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.
Date Created: 1910
PID: grinnell:5638

Title: Street Scene, Grinnell, Iowa
Description: Postcard view of Fourth Avenue, Grinnell, Iowa, looking west from the corner of Fourth Avenue and Main Street. Rexall Drug on the right, 1940s vintage automobiles parked on the street. Steeple of Congregational Church visible in background.
Date Created: 1940
PID: grinnell:5938