Looking north down busy Main Street, Grinnell, Iowa. Rexall Drug Store and Preston Clothing on the right and F.O.E. Chapter 2545 on the left. Number 9633.
Looking south at Main Street, Broad Street, Spring Street and West Street. 1914 postmark. W.C. "Billy" Robinson was an early aviator who set an American nonstop distance flight record in 1914. He became the second officially appointed air mail carrier in the U.S. He built his own airplane & invented a rotary airplane engine. Robinson was killed in 1916 at age 31 in a plane crash while attempting to set an altitude record.
