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Title: The Depot
Description: The Depot at 1014 3rd Avenue in Grinnell, Iowa. Originally the Rock Island railroad station and later a restaurant called The Deport. Drake Community Library (Grinnell, Iowa) Archives. Martzahn City Planning Slides, p.18, slide 4.
Date Created: 2003
PID: grinnell:30302

Title: Fitness Firm Doorway
Description: The doorway to FItness Firm in the B.P.O.E. Building on Fourth Avenue and Main Street in Grinnell, Iowa. Drake Community Library (Grinnell, Iowa) Archives. Main Street Slides, p.32, slide 9.
Date Created: 1992
PID: grinnell:21602

Title: Glass Shop
Description: The Glass Shop, formerly a railroad building, located at 3rd Avenue and Park Street in about 1990. Drake Community Library (Grinnell, Iowa) Archives. Imagine Grinnell Slides, p.7, slide 14.
Date Created: 1990
PID: grinnell:20323

Title: Grinnell Savings Bank
Description: Postcard view of the interior of the Grinnell Savings Bank, Grinnell, Iowa, established 1877. Postcard published by Fergason Post Card Co., Waterloo, Iowa. Drake Community Library (Grinnell, Iowa) Archives. McNally photographs. Collection #1, Series #1-1.
Date Created: 1920
PID: grinnell:6295

Title: Mayflower Home, Buckley Hall, Buckley Hall
Description: Color postcard view of Buckley Hall residence at the Mayflower Home, 619 Park Street, in Grinnell, Iowa. Postcard produced by Hanssen Studio, Grinnell, Iowa. Drake Community Library (Grinnell, Iowa) Archives. Miscellaneous photographs. Collection #17-2, Grinnell Buildings.
Date Created: 1990
PID: grinnell:11644

Title: New Gas Plant, Grinnell, IA
Description: Postcard view of Peoples Light and Fuel Co., Grinnell, Iowa. Slogans on the card read: "Use the light that lights," and "Use the fuel that makes cooking fun." Verso of postcard is addressed to "J.J. Mincer, 922 Main St., City" and is postmarked September 7, 1909. The message reads, "Gas will be turned on about Sept. 15 or 20," and is signed with a stamped "Peoples Light and Fuel Co." Photograph by Child. Drake Community Library (Grinnell, Iowa) Archives. McNally photographs. Collection #1, Series #1-1.
Date Created: 1909
PID: grinnell:6272

Title: Otherside Supper Club and Pagliai's Pizza
Description: The Otherside Supper Club and Pagliai's Pizza at 816 Fifth Avenue in downtown Grinnell, Iowa. Drake Community Library (Grinnell, Iowa) Archives. Main Street Slides, p.35, slide 10.
Date Created: 1987
PID: grinnell:21651

Title: Penquite Motel
Description: Flier for the Penquite Motel, located on the corner of 6th Avenue and Penrose Street in Grinnell, Iowa, advertising rooms for a bowling tournament to be held in Grinnell from February 17 to March 24 probably in 1961. Fern and Gene Freeborn bought the Penquite Motel in 1961 and changed the name to Freeborn Motel shortly thereafter.
Date Created: 1961
PID: grinnell:12204

Title: Story of an Old Settler
Description: Newspaper clipping of article written by Jennie Bailey (1858-1937) about her father, James Bailey (1815-1888), and mother, Cornelia Doolittle Bailey (1824-1893) and their life in early Grinnell. James Bailey was an Abolitionist and his home was a station on the Underground Railroad. Other people mentioned include Alfred Bailey, Lorenzo Bailey, Joanna Bailey Baggs, and Dennis and Clark Thompson. Topics discussed include the first saw mill in Grinnell, the Bailey House hotel, the Sugar Creek war, and prairie flora.
Date Created: 1930
PID: grinnell:5828

Title: Three Men Against a Wall
Description: Postcard view of three men dressed in suits and hats against a wall in Grinnell, Iowa (?). Poster for the 1914 film September Morn in shop window at left. Drake Community Library (Grinnell, Iowa) Archives. McNally photographs. Collection #1, Series #1-1.
Date Created: 1914
PID: grinnell:6355