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Title: Tannery in Grinnell, Iowa
Description: Tannery north of Hazelwood Cemetery in Grinnell, Iowa, around 1915. Drake Community Library (Grinnell, Iowa) Archives. McNally photographs. Collection #1, Series #1-1.
Date Created: 1915
PID: grinnell:6271

Title: U[ncle] S[am's] Club, Grinnell, Iowa
Description: Looking west from Pearl Street. The Uncle Sam's Club was started in 1899 when a group of boys in the are began meeting under the direction of two collect students. The community later supported to building clubhouse in 1903. The center served until 1987 and the building was torn down.
Date Created: 1915
PID: grinnell:13620

Title: United Presbyterian Church, College Springs, Iowa, College Springs Presbyterian Church
Description: Looking northeast at the entrance to a three-story brick and stone church built in the mid-1800s and located at 809 Iowa Avenue, College Springs, Page County, Iowa. 1915 postmark.
Date Created: 1915
PID: grinnell:15753

Title: Unloading flying machine, Carroll, Iowa, Airplane, Herman R. Fessler Restaurant, The Carroll Times
Description: Looking northeast near the corner of East Fourth Street and North Court Street at a crowd of people surrounding a train car with a "flying machine" being unloaded. There is a pool and billiards sign on the left along with a restaurant owned by Herman R. Fessler. The Carroll Times building is across the street in the background. You can also see the cupola of the Carroll County Court House (1886-1965) in the upper left of the picture.
Date Created: 1915
PID: grinnell:13935

Title: Verschiedene Kopfe und Selbstbildnis, Various Heads and Self Portrait
Date Created: 1915
PID: faulconer-art:3621

Title: View of Mississippi River, Dubuque, Iowa
Description: Looking north at the great Mississippi River which is one of the world’s major river systems in size, habitat diversity and biological productivity, and is the second longest river in the United States. Number 5900.
Date Created: 1915
PID: grinnell:16030

Title: View of Mississippi River, looking North from Mother House Grounds, Dubuque, Iowa, Motherhouse Grounds, Mt. Carmel Motherhouse, Mt. Carmel Convent
Description: Looking north at the great Mississippi River which is one of the world’s major river systems in size, habitat diversity and biological productivity, and is the second longest river in the United States. Land was purchased in 1889 with part of the money the Sisters of Charity of the Blessed Virgin Mary (BVM) received as part of an indemnity of $6,400 for buildings of theirs burned in Philadephia. The school and convent in Dubuque was moved south of Dubuque. The convent was called Mount Carmel and and the land, St. Joseph's Prairie. Mount Carmel Motherhouse sits on 110 acres overlooking the Mississippi River. In the past, the building was the spiritual home for nearly 600 Sisters in the community. The motherhouse is also the administrative center of the congregation. Number 22535.
Date Created: 1915
PID: grinnell:16031