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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: 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: 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

Title: Community Center from Park Street
Description: The east facade of the Community Center 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 7.
Date Created: 1991
PID: grinnell:21553

Title: Construction Begins on the Post Office
Description: Construction begins on the United States Post Office, on the corner of 5th Avenue and Broad Street in Grinnell, Iowa, 1917. Drake Community Library (Grinnell, Iowa) Archives. McNally photographs. Collection #1, Series #1-3.
Date Created: 1917
PID: grinnell:6180

Title: East Facade of Community Center
Description: View of the east facade of the Community Center along Park Street in Grinnell, Iowa. The Community Center was formerly the high school. Drake Community Library (Grinnell, Iowa) Archives. Martzahn City Planning Slides, p.8, slide 5.
Date Created: 1991
PID: grinnell:30200

Title: Fire Department, Grinnell, IA. --541--
Description: Postcard view of the Grinnell, Iowa, fire station and city hall. "Old Betsy" Grinnell Fire Department's 1913 American LaFrance is pictured in front of the building. The city hall/fire station was located at 820 Commercial Street (the south side of Commercial Street) and is no longer standing. Drake Community Library (Grinnell, Iowa) Archives. McNally photographs. Collection #1, Series #1-1.
Date Created: 1915
PID: grinnell:6347