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Title: City Park, Grinnell, Ia. 753, City Park, Grinnell, Iowa 753
Description: View from the center of Central Park in Grinnell, Iowa, looking northwest towards the intersection of Broad Street and Fourth Avenue. The Congregational Church and Merchants' National Bank are visible at the intersection. Horses and buggies are parked to the north of the park; automobiles are parked along Broad Street. Kruxo postcard. Drake Community Library (Grinnell, Iowa) Archives. Miscellaneous photographs. Collection #17-5, Views of Grinnell.
Date Created: 1920
PID: grinnell:12372

Title: Co-operative Delivery Wagons
Description: Panoramic view of seven horse-drawn delivery wagons from the Co-operative Delivery Co. parked in front of 816-818 4th Avenue, in Grinnell, Iowa, about 1919. Buchanan Real Estate and Insurance in the background. Other businesses visible include Dr. E.E. Harris and Nelson & Sons, as well as an electric and heating business. Image was produced as a postcard, 3.25" x 11 ". Drake Community Library Archives. Oversize photos. McNally photographs, series # 1-1.
Date Created: 1919
PID: grinnell:6072

Title: Co-operative Delivery Wagons at 720 4th Avenue
Description: Panoramic view of horse-drawn delivery wagons from the Co-operative Delivery Co. parked in front of 720 4th Avenue, in Grinnell, Iowa, about 1919. Watland Lumber Co. visible in background. Image was produced as a postcard, 3.25" x 11 ". Drake Community Library Archives. Oversize photos. McNally photographs, series # 1-1.
Date Created: 1919
PID: grinnell:6073

Title: Co-operative Delivery Wagons at 818 4th Avenue
Description: Panoramic view of horse-drawn delivery wagons from the Co-operative Delivery Co. parked in front of 818 4th Avenue, in Grinnell, Iowa, about 1919. Drivers are posing behind their wagons and boxes of goods are unloaded on the sidewalk. View is to the south and east along 4th Avenue. Image was produced as a postcard, 3.25" x 11 ". Drake Community Library Archives. Oversize photos. McNally photographs, series # 1-1.
Date Created: 1919
PID: grinnell:6074

Title: Construction in Front of the Herald-Register Building
Description: View of a bulldozer and workmen in front of the Grinnell Herald-Register building on 5th Avenue in Grinnell, Iowa. Drake Community Library (Grinnell, Iowa) Archives. Miscellaneous photographs. Collection #17-2, Grinnell Buildings.
Date Created: 1936
PID: grinnell:6505

Title: Corner View of B.P.O.E. Building
Description: A view of the B.P.O.E. building when it housed Godfather's Pizza in Grinnell, Iowa, at the corner of 4th Avenue and Main Street. The restaurant closed it's Grinnell location in 2011. Grinnell Locksmith was located in the basement; its sign is visible on the Main Street side of the building. Drake Community Library (Grinnell, Iowa) Archives. Imagine Grinnell Slides, p.37, slide 5.
Date Created: 1988
PID: grinnell:20570

Title: Corrough Block, 901 Main Street, Grinnell, Iowa
Description: Photograph of the Corrough Block at 901 Main Street (northwest corner of 4th and Main) in Grinnell, Iowa. Built in 1900 in Romanesque style; the building was significant for its use of stone and brick. The Main Street facade features rusticated stone. The Fourth Avenue facade is constructed of rough textured burgundy brick on the lower level and smooth-moulded buff colored brick on the upper level. The oriel window on the second floor was where the dental chair sat because of the good lighting. Photo also features man and woman standing outside of bank. Horses and buggies in the street. Boardwalk across the unpaved street. Visible businesses include F.A. Palmer Dentist, Lanphere Land co., Gallagher Dentist, and a drug store. Drake Community Library (Grinnell, Iowa) Archives. Miscellaneous photographs. Collection #17-2, Grinnell Buildings.
Date Created: 1900
PID: grinnell:5636

Title: Duck Hunting is Good on Main Street
Description: Main Street, Grinnell, Iowa, 1898. Dawson Brande is aiming his gun at a duck decoy in a water-filled pothole on Main street. A sign says, "No swimming here." Other men are standing on the street observing. A horse watering trough is visible. Also pictured is a horse drawn vehicle, perhaps a food truck? Drake Community Library (Grinnell, Iowa) Archives. McNally photographs. Collection #1, Series #1-3.
Date Created: 1898
PID: grinnell:6156

Title: East Side of Main Street
Description: View of the east side of the 800 block of Main Street looking north in Grinnell, Iowa around 1900 or before. Visible businesses include: Palace Livery; Bates & Stoaks Druggists; a barber shop; L. Glemley, dentist; Shahans Grocery; Drs. Parish & [illegible]. Mud streets and hitching posts visible. Drake Community Library (Grinnell, Iowa) Archives. McNally photographs. Collection #1, Series #1-2.
Date Created: 1890
PID: grinnell:6371

Title: FedEx Truck Parked on Broad Street
Description: A FedEx truck parked in the middle of Broad Street in downtown Grinnell, Iowa. Drake Community Library (Grinnell, Iowa) Archives. Martzahn City Planning Slides, p.9, slide 1.
Date Created: 2002
PID: grinnell:30207