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Title: Spaulding Automobile on the Steps of the Iowa State Capitol
Description: Photograph of a Spaulding automobile on the steps of the Iowa State Capitol in Des Moines, Iowa. The legend on the verso of the photo says: "The only loaded car to climb Iowa State Capital [sic] steps -- Climbed steps both west and east side of Capital [sic] building." Occupants of car are identified as follows: Front seat: E.H. Spaulding in drivers seat; Hal Wells in passenger seat. Rear seat, left to right: C.B. Kurtz, Spaulding Manufacturing Motor Car department Supt.; Fred Claiborne, part owner Claiborne Reno Paint Co,.Des Moines, and director of River to River; unidentified; Geo. L. Towne, realtor, Des Moines. Hal Wells held the cross state record in the River to River road race and the world's dirt road record, made in October 1913. Drake Community Library (Grinnell, Iowa) Archives. Miscellaneous photographs. Collection #17-4, Spaulding Company.
Date Created: 1913
PID: grinnell:11832

Title: Spaulding Automobiles
Description: Two Spaulding automobiles outside of the Spaulding Manufacturing plant in Grinnell, Iowa. The Spaulding automobile was produced from 1909 to 1916. Drake Community Library (Grinnell, Iowa) Archives. McNally photographs. Collection #1, Series #1-3.
Date Created: 1910
PID: grinnell:11309

Title: Spaulding Building Demolition
Description: Photographs of the demolition of the Spaulding Manufacturing Company automotive building which was on the southeast corner of Spring Street and 4th Avenue in Grinnell, Iowa. Photos are dated November 7, 1986 on verso. Drake Community Library (Grinnell, Iowa) Archives. Miscellaneous photographs. Collection #17-4, Spaulding Company.
Date Created: 1986
PID: grinnell:12825

Title: Spaulding Building on Main Street
Description: The Spaulding Building at 912-918 Main Street in Grinnell, Iowa, with Rags and Riches and Trendsetters visible as well as Grinnell Home Decorating and Apple Craft. Drake Community Library (Grinnell, Iowa) Archives. Main Street Slides, p.2, slide 17.
Date Created: 1990
PID: grinnell:21259

Title: Spaulding Building, Grinnell, Iowa
Description: One of the old Spaulding buildings that set on the corner of Spring & 4th torn down in the fall 87 or 88. Note the car on the middle floor. The bldg. was used previously for lawnmower repair and before that as a welding shop.--photo verso. Listed in the National Register of Historic Places. Title supplied by cataloger.
Date Created: 1988
PID: grinnell:13555

Title: Spaulding Four Door Car
Description: Black and white photograph of a Spaulding open-top four-door car (model unknown) in front of a house. The license number is 47408 W/15. Three people are sitting in the car: a boy in white clothes and straw hat, a woman whose hat has a very large puff of some sort on the left side, and a man in the driver's seat who is wearing a suit and small brimmed hat. The car is in the yard of a dark colored frame house.
Date Created: 1914
PID: grinnell:26633

Title: Spaulding H advertisement
Description: Copy of an ad for the Spaulding H 5-passenger car in the January 1914 issue of 'The Automobile' magazine. At the time, this Sleeper car sold for $1875. The ad is titled "Spaulding Radically Refines Bodies" and describes the changes and benefits of this newest model
Date Created: 1914
PID: grinnell:26628

Title: Washington High School, Spaulding Manufacturing Co., Grinnell, Iowa
Description: Drawing depicting the Spaulding Manufacturing Co. Originally started manufacturing buggies, the Spaulding Manufacturing Company introduced the first Spaulding automobile in 1909. However, the Spaulding automobile never caught on and the last vehicle was made in 1916. 1910 postmark. Number 8248.
Date Created: 1910
PID: grinnell:13648

Title: Carnegie Library, Bloomfield Public Library, Spaulding Manufacturing Co., Grinnell, Iowa
Description: Spaulding Manufacturing Co.factory. Manufacturers of Spring Wagons, Buggies and Carriages. Number 73. The Spaulding building is listed in the National Register of Historic Places. Title supplied by cataloger.
Date Created: 1919
PID: grinnell:14376

Title: Spaulding Manufacturing Company Office
Description: Photograph of the administrative offices of the Spaulding Manufacturing Company on the corner of 4th Avenue and Spring Street in Grinnell, Iowa. Drake Community Library (Grinnell, Iowa) Archives. Miscellaneous photographs. Collection #17-4, Spaulding Company.
Date Created: 1910
PID: grinnell:11831