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Title: Aurelia High School building, Aurelia, Iowa
Description: Two story wooden high school building built in 1883 and torn down in 1922. 1911 postmark.
Date Created: 1911
PID: grinnell:14468

Title: Bank and Masonic Hall, Danbury, Iowa, Hedrick, D.H., Danbury Trust and Savings Bank
Description: The Danbury Trust and Savings Bank was built in 1911 and housed the bank on the first floor, and the Masonic Hall on the second floor. D.H. Hedrick served as the first president and the bank had a capital of $25,000. 1911 postmark.
Date Created: 1911
PID: grinnell:16211

Title: Baptist Church, Bedford, Iowa, First Baptist Church, First Baptist Church - Saved by the Blood
Description: Looking southeast at a two-story brick church built in 1900 at a cost of $16,000. Located at 808 Main Street, Bedford, Taylor County, Iowa. 1911 postmark.
Date Created: 1911
PID: grinnell:13864

Title: Brock Family in their 1910 Spaulding Automobile
Description: The Brock family in their 1910 Spaulding automobile. Dr. A. J. Brock, DDS, and daughter Beatrice Brock, age 3 1/2, are in the front seat. Mrs. Edith Brock and son Atwood, age 1 1/2, are in the back seat. The Spaulding was a 2-door right-hand drive automobile built in Grinnell, Iowa, in 1910. It had a 4 cylinder, 30 hp Rutenear motor and cost about $4800. Drake Community Library Archives. Oversize photos.
Date Created: 1911
PID: grinnell:6061

Title: Burlington Hotel, Burlington, Iowa, Hotel Burlington, The Burlington
Description: Looking northwest at the largest building in the downtown. The seven-story Renaissance Revival style "L-plan" building was designed by Seth E. Temple and Parke T. Burrows, constructed in 1910-1911 by Westlake Construction Company, and was the first building in Burlington of steel frame construction throughout, making it the first to be entirely fireproof. It is located at 206 North Third Street. Burlington, Des Moines County, Iowa, and listed in the National Register of Historic Places. 1911 postmark. Number A-9725.
Date Created: 1911
PID: grinnell:13783

Title: Busy day, Cumberland, Iowa
Description: Looking south on a bustling Main Street at a millinery shop and variety store on the left and the bank on the right with a church steeple in the background. 1911 postmark.
Date Created: 1911
PID: grinnell:16218

Title: C. & N.W. Wreck, May 30, 1911, Chelsea, Iowa, Chicago & North Western Wreck
Description: May 30, 1911 Chicago & North Western train wreck near Chelsea, Iowa in Wright and Tama counties. A passenger car is leaning precariously off of the tracks while people young and old look on. 1911 postmark.
Date Created: 1911
PID: grinnell:13892

Title: C.N.W. Depot, Colo, Iowa, Chicago and Northwestern Railroad Depot, Colo, Iowa
Description: Looking east at a train arriving at the depot. The C&NW was the dominant railroad in Story County for 130 years and provided the first “modern” form of transportation in the County. People traveled by rail and most commerce became dependent on the railroad. In the 1950s, highway transportation overtook rail as the primary means of moving people and goods. The railroad flourished and floundered over its 130-year history until April 1995 when it was acquired by the Union Pacific Railroad. 1911 postmark.
Date Created: 1911
PID: grinnell:14688

Title: Campus View Looking Northwest, Grinnell, Iowa -- 933
Description: Postcard view of the Grinnell College campus in Grinnell, Iowa, looking northwest from 6th Avenue. Alumni Hall on the right and Blair Hall in the center. Postcard is addressed to Miss Nettie Bayley in Encampment, Wyoming, and postmarked August 15, 1911, in Grinnell, Iowa. Postcard published by C.U. Williams Photoette in Bloomington, Illinois. Drake Community Library (Grinnell, Iowa) Archives. Miscellaneous photographs. Collection #17-3, Grinnell College.
Date Created: 1911
PID: grinnell:11792