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Title: Armory, Grinnell, Iowa
Description: Postcard view of the Armory at 816 Fifth Avenue in Grinnell, Iowa. Postcard produced by C.U. Williams Photoette, Bloomington, Illinois. Drake Community Library (Grinnell, Iowa) Archives. McNally photographs. Collection #1, Series #1-1.
Date Created: 1920
PID: grinnell:6280

Title: Barbershop
Description: At the east end of the 900 block of Main Street in Grinnell, Iowa. Post Office with barbershop in the cellar in 1919. Standing in front on either side of a barbershop pole are: Les Grooms, Barney (Bony) Little, unknown itinerant barber, G.B. McGuin (assistant postmaster) and Glen Anderson (post office). Drake Community Library (Grinnell, Iowa) Archives. McNally photographs. Collection #1, Series #1-3.
Date Created: 1919
PID: grinnell:6152

Title: Bench in Children's Room, Stewart Library
Description: View of a bench in the Children's Room in Stewart Library, Grinnell, Iowa. The Children's Room was in the basement, and the photo shows water damage on the wall. Drake Community Library (Grinnell, Iowa) Archives. Miscellaneous photographs. Collection #17-1, Stewart Library.
Date Created: 1950
PID: grinnell:6456

Title: Central Park Plans
Description: A plan for downtown Grinnell, Iowa, including the sidewalks and Central Park gazebo created by an Iowa State University Landscape Architecture student in Summer 1994. Other plans are available in the Drake archives. Drake Community Library (Grinnell, Iowa) Archives. Imagine Grinnell Slides, p.8, slide 17.
Date Created: 1994
PID: grinnell:20326

Title: Children Selecting Books at Stewart Library
Description: Children selecting books in the children's room at Stewart Library in Grinnell, Iowa. From left to right: John Brink, Nancy Russell, Candace Pederson, Kirsten Pederson, Tania Loveridge. Photo from Wallace's Farmer and Iowa Homestead, Des Moines, Iowa. Drake Community Library (Grinnell, Iowa) Archives. Miscellaneous photographs. Collection #17-1, Stewart Library.
Date Created: 1950
PID: grinnell:6461

Title: City Water Tower
Description: Photograph of the Grinnell, Iowa, city water tower at 722 Main Street in the 1920s. The tower has ruptured and cascades of ice have formed from the bottom of the tower to the ground. Photo by Cornelia Clarke. Drake Community Library (Grinnell, Iowa) Archives. Cornelia Clarke Collection. Collection #237.
Date Created: 1920
PID: grinnell:11839

Title: Co. K Lines Up on Main Street
Description: Co. K (possibly the Iowa 49th Volunteer Infantry) lines up on Main Street in Grinnell, Iowa, in spring 1898. The view is looking west northwest from the corner of Commercial and Main. Drake Community Library (Grinnell, Iowa) Archives. Miscellaneous photographs. Collection #17-5, Views of Grinnell.
Date Created: 1898
PID: grinnell:12229

Title: Commercial Street, Grinnell, Iowa
Description: Businesses on Commercial Street in Grinnell, Iowa, about 1894. From right to left: H.B. Lain Flour & Feed (816 Commercial), City Hall (820 Commercial) and the Mack Hotel (813 Broad). Fire wagons and horses and firemen are posed in front of City Hall which also housed the Fire Department. Drake Community Library (Grinnell, Iowa) Archives. Miscellaneous photographs. Collection #17-2, Grinnell Buildings.
Date Created: 1894
PID: grinnell:6491

Title: Community Center
Description: The Community Center at 925 Park Street in Grinnell, Iowa. It was Grinnell High School and then Grinnell Junior High School prior to becoming the Community Center housing city offices. Drake Community Library (Grinnell, Iowa) Archives. Main Street Slides, p.28, slide 3.
Date Created: 1991
PID: grinnell:21551

Title: Community Center from 4th Avenue, Community Center from Fourth Avenue
Description: The Community Center on Park Street and 4th Avenue in Grinnell, Iowa. It housed the community theater, city offices, and other organizations. Drake Community Library (Grinnell, Iowa) Archives. Main Street Slides, p.28, slide 8.
Date Created: 1987
PID: grinnell:21554