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Title: 1127 Broad Street
Description: Winter postcard view of 1127 Broad Street in Grinnell, Iowa. This was the home of Walter Hammond and Hattie Child Hammond. The house was built in 1900 from George F. Barber's design #128, published in The Cottage Souvenir #2, revised and enlarged, 1892. A fire destroyed the house on January 18, 2013. Azo stamp box on verso with four triangles pointing up.
Date Created: 1904
PID: grinnell:20421

Title: 1407 Sixth Avenue, Under the Elms
Description: View of 1407 Sixth Avenue in Grinnell, Iowa. Verso of photo reads: "Under the elms -- March 15, 1901 -- 1407 Sixth Ave., Grinnell." Additional notes on verso read: "Hobart carload lumber from Chicago. 1882 first coat of paint night before cyclone. Chicken feathers driven into wood. House had to be scraped. Used as hospital for injured. Dead bodies taken to house." The Grinnell Cyclone was on June 17, 1882. Drake Community Library (Grinnell, Iowa) Archives. Miscellaneous photographs. Collection #17-5, Views of Grinnell.
Date Created: 1901
PID: grinnell:12274

Title: 1903 University of Chicago Interscholastic Meet
Description: On June 6, 1903, William S. Hodgdon, a track athlete at Grinnell High School, won the 440 yard dash at the University of Chicago Interscholastic Meet held at Marshall Field in Chicago. Hodgdon set a record with his time of 54.8 seconds. Hodgdon can clearly be seen in white with the Grinnell iron cross on the chest of his shirt in the end of race picture. Drake Community Library (Grinnell, Iowa) Archives. Hodgdon Photographs Collection #259.
Date Created: 1903
PID: grinnell:27274

Title: 609 Sixth Avenue, Grinnell, Iowa
Description: Black and white photograph of the George Hamlin house at 609 6th Avenue in Grinnell. This picture shows the remodeling done to the house between 1892 and 1900 to modernize it. A large porch was added on the first floor and a dormer on the front of the house was added to the attic.
Date Created: 1900
PID: grinnell:26640

Title: 613 Sixth Avenue, Grinnell, Iowa
Description: Black and white photograph of a house at 613 6th Avenue in Grinnell.
Date Created: 1900
PID: grinnell:26643

Title: 900 Block of Main Street, Grinnell, Iowa
Description: Postcard view of the west side of the 900 block of Main Street in Grinnell, Iowa. A horse-drawn Co-operative Delivery wagon is being unloaded in front of Wesco and Roby Grocery which was located at 909 Main Street. Also visible is J.W. Harpster Furniture and Undertaking. Drake Community Library (Grinnell, Iowa) Archives. Miscellaneous photographs. Collection #17-2, Grinnell Buildings.
Date Created: 1900
PID: grinnell:11237

Title: A. McIntosh & Co.
Description: Store front of A. McIntosh & Co.,Grinnell, Iowa, advertising dry goods, carpets and cloaks, as well as Ferris Good Sense corset waists. Man and woman standing in doorway. Stairway going up on the left says "Dentist."
Date Created: 1900
PID: grinnell:6159

Title: Abi Frances Alden Palmer
Description: Studio portrait of Abi Frances Alden Palmer, wife of Anson Hayden Palmer. They married in 1877. Portrait by Brown, Marshalltown, Iowa.
Date Created: 1900
PID: grinnell:11943

Title: Ahrens Family
Description: Photograph of the Frederick and Henrietta Ahrens family on the front steps of their home at Sixth Avenue and Penrose in Grinnell, Iowa. The photo was probably taken about 1900, a few years after Frederick Ahrens lost his life in a farm accident involving runaway horses. Bottom row: Lizzie Myers, William Ahrens, Wilhelmina "Minnie" Ahrens, Frank Ahrens. Top row: Edward Ahrens, Annie Kuder, Henrietta H?cke Ahrens, Dora Ahrens Geiger, Ella Ahrens McMillan, Henry Ahrens.
Date Created: 1900
PID: grinnell:12912

Title: An Uncomfortable Sleep
Description: Black and white photograph showing a woman, dressed in a patterned dress, lying prone with her head and feet resting on chairs and her arms crossed on her stomach. A mirror, a hat, and several boxes sit atop a dresser in the background. There is an unidentified framed item on the wall.
Date Created: 1890
PID: grinnell:23269