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Title: Emery S. Bartlett in horse-drawn buggy
Description: Black and white photograph showing Emery S. Bartlett (1832-1915) driving a carriage pulled by a black horse. One of the first residents of Grinnell, Emery was a successful meat marketer and horse trainer. Written inscription on back reads as follows: "Emery S Bartlett with farmile driving horse / probably about 1890 / He loved good - and fast - driving horses, and in the early 1900s owned and raced fast harness horses. / This horse was not particularly beautiful - but was very faithful and only reluctantly did Mr. Bartlett consent to the disposal of the enfeebled horse about 1904."
Date Created: 1890
PID: grinnell:23268

Title: James H. Bonesteel and Alice Brent Bonesteel
Description: Black and white photograph of a couple, James H. Bonesteel and his wife Alice Brent (according to written inscription). James is dressed in a black suit, and Alice is wearing a dark-colored dress with a lace collar. This photograph was rescued from a donor in Michigan who found it in an antique shop. The photographer was Eckhardt, in Grinnell, but we don't know anything else about the couple.
Date Created: 1890
PID: grinnell:23282

Title: Marshall Talbot
Description: A black and white photograph of Marshall Talbot, and artist, magazine writer, and lecturer. He was well known in Grinnell in the 1860s and 1870s. He is shown with long, white hair and beard, wearing a sweater over a collared shirt.
Date Created: 1880
PID: grinnell:23286