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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

Title: Spaulding Official Exposition Car
Description: Postcard with an image of the Spaulding Exposition Car. Legend reads: " Spaulding San Diego distributor and Official Panama Exposition car logging and filming Ocean to Ocean Highway from San Diego, California, to New York." Drake Community Library (Grinnell, Iowa) Archives. Miscellaneous photographs. Collection #17-4, Spaulding Company.
Date Created: 1913
PID: grinnell:11830

Title: Spaulding Racer
Description: Black and white photograph of the Spaulding Racer, a lightweight two-seat open-top car built on a stock chassis that broke the records for fastest time driving across Iowa and for highest speed on a dirt road during the 1913 River-to-River race. A sign on the car reads "THIS "SPAULDING" STOCK CHASSIS HOLDS THE CROSS STATE RECORD AND WORLD'S HIGH SPEED DIRT ROAD RECORD 337.8 MILES IN 8 HRS.14 MIN"
Date Created: 1913
PID: grinnell:26626

Title: Spaulding Stock Chassis Making World's Record
Description: Hal Wells was the driver of the Spaulding racer, a lightweight two-passenger wooden body on a stock chassis, during the October 1913 River to River Road race. Postcard view shows Wells driving west on 4th Avenue, in Grinnell, Iowa, during the race in which a world's dirt-road speed record was set. The intersection pictured is the intersection of 4th Avenue and West Street. Azo stamp box on verso. Drake Community Library (Grinnell, Iowa) Archives. Miscellaneous photographs. Collection #17-4, Spaulding Company.
Date Created: 1913
PID: grinnell:11829

Title: Grinnell High School, Spaulding Stock Chassis, Making World's Record, [Grinnell, Iowa]
Description: Looking northeast at Spaulding car driving west on Fourth Avenue. Hatch Apartments in background. 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.
Date Created: 1920
PID: grinnell:13299