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Title: Nelson & Sons Sample Day, Grinnell, Iowa
Description: Postcard view of the south side of 4th Avenue in Grinnell, Iowa, between Broad and Main Streets. Nelson & Sons is having a "sample day" and there are half a dozen horse-drawn delivery wagons parked in front of the business. Other businesses visible: Central Garage Company and Vienna Cafe and Restaurant. Postcard by Norton's Photo, Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Drake Community Library (Grinnell, Iowa) Archives. McNally photographs. Collection #1, Series #1-1.
Date Created: 1900
PID: grinnell:6353

Title: New Monroe Hotel, Grinnell, Iowa
Description: Postcard view of the Monroe Hotel in Grinnell, Iowa. The J.B. Grinnell house is just visible on the left of the photo. This was the original location of the house before it was moved to Broad Street south of the railroad tracks. Drake Community Library (Grinnell, Iowa) Archives. Miscellaneous photographs. Collection #17-2, Grinnell Buildings.
Date Created: 1907
PID: grinnell:6525

Title: New Monroe Hotel, Grinnell, Iowa
Description: Postcard view of the Monroe Hotel in Grinnell, Iowa. Kruxo postcard. Drake Community Library (Grinnell, Iowa) Archives. Miscellaneous photographs. Collection #17-2, Grinnell Buildings.
Date Created: 1907
PID: grinnell:6526

Title: Northwest Corner of Commercial and Broad Streets
Description: Northwest corner of Commercial and Broad Streets, Grinnell, Iowa, 1907. Central Park in foreground. Horses and buggies on mud streets. Drake Community Library (Grinnell, Iowa) Archives. McNally photographs. Collection #1, Series #1-3.
Date Created: 1907
PID: grinnell:6164

Title: Panorama of Grinnell, Iowa
Description: Postcard view of Grinnell, Iowa, looking east from the intersection of 4th Avenue and Main Street. Mud streets, horse and buggies at hitching posts, electrical poles along streets. Labeled "Spring 1907." Drake Community Library (Grinnell, Iowa) Archives. McNally photographs. Collection #1, Series #1-1.
Date Created: 1907
PID: grinnell:6191

Title: Patron's Account Book
Description: Patron's account book from The Creamery (J.W. Fowler, prop.) in Grinnell, Iowa. The account book contains advertising from many businesses in Grinnell. The book was the property of Harry A. Brown, R.F.D. 4, Grinnell, Iowa. The figures in the book are probably not a record of milk, cream, and butter, but of something else.
Date Created: 1906
PID: grinnell:6411

Title: Rock Island Stockyards
Description: View of twenty horses in the paddock at the Rock Island stockyard at 3rd Avenue and West Street in Grinnell, Iowa, in the early 1900s. The railroad is in the background. A sign which reads "Improved Montgomery Palace Stock Car" is visible. Photo by Child. Drake Community Library (Grinnell, Iowa) Archives. Miscellaneous photographs. Collection #17-5, Views of Grinnell.
Date Created: 1901
PID: grinnell:12291

Title: Scene in Front of Bailey and Rinefort Hardware
Description: View of the front of Bailey and Rinefort Hardware store in Grinnell, Iowa, in 1902. The store was located at 914-916 Main Street. Dirt streets are lined with hitching posts, and several bicycles are parked in front of buildings. Drake Community Library (Grinnell, Iowa) Archives. Miscellaneous photographs. Collection #17-5, Views of Grinnell.
Date Created: 1902
PID: grinnell:12290

Title: Southwest Corner of Broad Street and Commercial Street, Grinnell, Iowa
Description: Photograph of the southwest corner of Broad Street and Commercial Street, Grinnell, Iowa, about 1910. Store is home to the W.W. Kimball Piano Co. dealership which is advertising pianos, sewing machines, and organs for sale. Two women in a horse and buggy on the dirt street. Man standing in the doorway of the store. Building block is 1889 Black(?) Drake Community Library (Grinnell, Iowa) Archives. Collection # 17, Box # 1.
Date Created: 1910
PID: grinnell:5638

Title: Spaulding Buggy Factory
Description: Interior of the Spaulding Buggy Factory. Two of the workers are identified as Steve Smith and Tom Carter. Drake Community Library Archives. Oversize photos.
Date Created: 1900
PID: grinnell:6060