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Title: 1208 East Street
Description: 1208 East Street in Grinnell, Iowa. Drake Community Library (Grinnell, Iowa) Archives. Martzahn City Planning Slides, p.11, slide 19.
Date Created: 2001
PID: grinnell:30234

Title: 609 5th Ave, 609 Fifth Avenue
Description: 609 5th Avenue in Grinnell, Iowa. This house and two others were removed to make way for the construction of the Public Safety Building around 2008. Drake Community Library (Grinnell, Iowa) Archives. Martzahn City Planning Slides, p.11, slide 14.
Date Created: 2001
PID: grinnell:30229

Title: 611 5th Avenue, 611 Fifth Avenue
Description: 611 5th Avenue in Grinnell, Iowa. Home of Clark Brink in 2001. No longer extant. This house and two others were removed to make way for the construction of the Public Safety Building around 2008. Drake Community Library (Grinnell, Iowa) Archives. Martzahn City Planning Slides, p.11, slide 15.
Date Created: 2001
PID: grinnell:30230

Title: Automobile Parked in Front of Cherokee Monument Company
Description: Automobile parked in front of Cherokee Monument Company at 126 E. Main Street in Cherokee, Iowa. The building in the background on the right is Lincoln High School which was on the northeast corner of Main Street and 1st Street. The high school was razed in 1960. Drake Community Library (Grinnell, Iowa) Archives. Hodgdon Photographs Collection #259.
Date Created: 1920
PID: grinnell:27281

Title: Birds Eye View, Brooklyn, Iowa -- 30
Description: Postcard birds-eye view of Brooklyn, Iowa. Postcard is addressed to Miss Elizabeth Schaefer, Cedar Rapids, Iowa, and is postmarked October 4, 1912, in Brooklyn. Drake Community Library (Grinnell, Iowa) Archives. Miscellaneous photographs.Collection 17-7, Poweshiek County -- Other towns.
Date Created: 1912
PID: grinnell:13176

Title: Burk-Leins Novelty Orchestra
Description: The Burk-Leins Novelty Orchestra played on riverboats on the Mississippi in the late 1920s. A note on the verso identifies the group as the "Mississippi Six" and additionally indicates Polk Burk on drums, Stick Leins on piano, and Rex Leins on sax. Drake Community Library (Grinnell, Iowa) Archives. Miscellaneous photographs. Collection #17-6, People.
Date Created: 1928
PID: grinnell:12827

Title: C.& N.W.R. Locomotive No. 2209, Chicago and North Western Railway Locomotive No. 2209
Description: Postcard view of C.& N.W. Railway locomotive No. 2209. Velox stamp box with diamonds in the corners. Drake Community Library (Grinnell, Iowa) Archives. Hodgdon Photographs Collection #259.
Date Created: 1907
PID: grinnell:27287

Title: C.&N.W.R. Steam Engine, Chicago and North Western Railway Steam Engine
Description: Postcard view of a C.&N.W. Railway steam engine and engineers. Azo stamp box with four triangles pointing up on verso. Drake Community Library (Grinnell, Iowa) Archives. Hodgdon Photographs Collection #259.
Date Created: 1910
PID: grinnell:27285

Title: Characteristics of the Times and Seasons
Description: Journal kept by Richard Spire from 1894-1918 in which he recorded his observations on weather, crop yields and prices, land values, and a few comments on presidential elections and World War I. Richard Spire farmed in Sheridan Township, Poweshiek County, Iowa, from 1872-1910. He and his wife, Isadora Hatfield, had eight children. He was engaged in several livestock buying partnerships and was a large feeder of cattle. In 1899 he was elected assessor. Drake Community Library (Grinnell, Iowa) Archives. Collection #56.
Date Created: 1894
PID: grinnell:12351

Title: Cherokee Archer Aircraft
Description: White Cherokee Archer aircraft with red and blue stripes and a red and blue tail at the Grinnell, Iowa, airport. Drake Community Library (Grinnell, Iowa) Archives. Martzahn City Planning Slides, p.20, slide 68.
Date Created: 1991
PID: grinnell:30331