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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: 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 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: 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: 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

Title: Grant and Don Williams
Description: Portrait of Grant and Don Williams. A handwritten note on the back indicates the men are shown in their Teddy Roosevelt Rough Rider uniforms. Portrait taken in Cheyenne, Wyoming by W.G. Walker Photographers. Drake Community Library (Grinnell, Iowa) Archives. Miscellaneous photographs. Collection #67 Grinnell/ Williams Family.
Date Created: 1898
PID: grinnell:18873

Title: Grinnell Fire Department
Description: Grinnell Fire Department. Top row, from left to right: Art Brande, John Manly, Stanley Little, Will Decany, Will Alley, Dean Carlson, Hugh Jacobs, John Cramer, Earl Neeley, Jim Rose, Geo. Clifton. Bottom row: Bud Struve (?), Lewis Rutis, Fay Matteson, Rudy Noel, Steve Smith, Russell Clindinin, Jasper Richardson, John Tharp, Marion Hulbert.Photo by Brooks. Drake Community Library (Grinnell, Iowa) Archives. Miscellaneous photographs. Collection #17-6, People.
Date Created: 1910
PID: grinnell:12973