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Title: 1303 Park Street, David R. Warburton residence, Grinnell College Faculty House
Description: Photographs of the house at 1303 Park Street, built by and for David R. Warburton in about 1900.
Date Created: 1900
PID: grinnell:3277

Title: 418 East Street, Samuel A. Cravath residence
Description: Photograph of the house at 418 East Street, built sometime before 1878, when it was listed in the City Directory. The house was owned by Samuel A. Cravath, editor of the Grinnell Herald, the older and more prestigious of the two newspapers in town (the other being the Grinnell Register). The tower was later removed.
Date Created: 1900
PID: grinnell:3274

Title: 800 Fourth Avenue, Bijou Theater
Description: Copy of a photograph of the Bijou Theater, located at 800 Fourth Avenue. The theater was owned by the G. W. Mart family, who also built the Strand Theater. The photograph was taken prior to 1914.
Date Created: 1900
PID: grinnell:3286

Title: 817 Seventh Avenue, Man on a "carnivalesque" cycling structure in the backyard of R. C. Ross residence
Description: Photograph of a "carnivalesque" in the backyard of the Ross residence at 817 Seventh Avenue, taken in the early 1900s. Bicyclists rode around the inner perimeter of the structure, made of wooden slats held erect by guide wires on a concrete slab.
Date Created: 1900
PID: grinnell:3285

Title: Nelson & Sons Sample Day, Grinnell, Iowa
Description: Photograph of 816-818 4th Avenue, Grinnell, Iowa, on Nelson & Sons sample day. Goods are piled on the sidewalk. Signs in the windows advertise 5 cent loaves of Liza Jane bread, 5 cent packages of Wrigley's Spearmint Gum, skeins of Ideal Nun's Pearl Luster and items to be given away free on Thursday, April 20. Salesmen and women sitting and standing in the doorways. Drake Community Library (Grinnell, Iowa) Archives. Collection # 17, Box # 1.
Date Created: 1900
PID: grinnell:5637

Title: Second Avenue and Main Street, Grinnell power plant, Grinnell steam plant
Description: Photograph of the steam power plant located at the corner of Second Avenue and Main Street. It was built in 1894 of brick and is no longer standing.
Date Created: 1900
PID: grinnell:3310