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Title: Grinnell State Bank, Grinnell Savings Bank, Grinnell, Iowa
Description: Looking southwest from Fourth Avenue. The Grinnell Saving Bank was constructed in 1913. Renovated in 1975. 1914 postmark. Number 111.
Date Created: 1914
PID: grinnell:13799

Title: Grinnell State Bank, Grinnell Savings Bank, established 1877, Grinnell, Iowa
Description: Interior of bank. The Grinnell Saving Bank was constructed in 1913. Renovated in 1975. Number R-52013.
Date Created: 1914
PID: grinnell:13800

Title: Audubon County Courthouse, High School, Grinnell, Iowa
Description: Looking northwest from corner of Park Street and 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. 1914 postmark. Number 41. It now houses the Grinnell Community Center.
Date Created: 1914
PID: grinnell:13806

Title: I.O.O.F. Hall, Brooklyn, Iowa, Independent Order of Odd Fellows Hall, IOOF Hall
Description: Main Street. Number 20. Next door is Karr Bros. Dry Goods store owned and operated by brothers Joseph and William Karr. Despite the awning reading "Kerr," research shows that the family name was Karr.
Date Created: 1914
PID: grinnell:13485

Title: New modern $50,000 school building, Brooklyn, Iowa
Description: Looking southeast at the new public school building in Brooklyn, Iowa. Completed in 1914 at a cost of $50,000. 1914 postmark.
Date Created: 1914
PID: grinnell:14448

Title: Central Park, Monroe Hotel, Park Street, Grinnell, Iowa
Description: Looking north from Park Street with Central Park and Monroe Hotel in foreground. 1914 postmark. Number 126.
Date Created: 1914
PID: grinnell:13528

Title: Robinson, Billy, Photo taken by [Billy] Robinson from his monoplane, Grinnell, Iowa
Description: 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.
Date Created: 1914
PID: grinnell:14512