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Title: Fire, September 24, 1908, Kellogg, Iowa
Description: On September 24, 1908 a devastating fire swept throught the business district destroying the whole city block. Pictured in the foreground are the Enterprise building a jewelry shop and the Rowland Restaurant and Lunch Room. 1908 postmark. Number 6.
Date Created: 1908
PID: grinnell:14359

Title: Fourth Avenue looking west, Grinnell, Iowa
Description: Looking west at Fourth Avenue from unpaved Broad Street with dentist office on southeast corner and drugstore on northeast corner. 1909 postmark. Number 918.
Date Created: 1909
PID: grinnell:13990

Title: Fourth Avenue looking west, Grinnell, Iowa
Description: Looking west at Fourth Avenue from unpaved Broad Street with dentist office on southeast corner and drugstore on northeast corner. 1909 postmark. Series 918.
Date Created: 1909
PID: grinnell:14371

Title: Evangelical Lutheran Church, Section of Main Street., M.E. Church, Methodist Episcopal Church, Creamery, Greetings from State Center, Iowa
Description: Montage of State Center: Evangelical Lutheran Church, Section of Main Street, M.E. Church, Creamery, Main Street, Catholic Church, Public school, Presbyterian Church. 1909 postmark.
Date Created: 1909
PID: grinnell:13341

Title: U.S. Club, Grinnell from Robinson's monoplane, Grinnell, Iowa
Description: Looking south at Main Street, Broad Street, Spring Street and West Street. 1914 postmark. W.C. "Billy" Robinson was an early aviator who set an American nonstop distance flight record in 1914. He became the second officially appointed air mail carrier in the U.S. He built his own airplane & invented a rotary airplane engine. Robinson was killed in 1916 at age 31 in a plane crash while attempting to set an altitude record.
Date Created: 1920
PID: grinnell:13663

Title: Rinefort's, Morse Building, Grinnell's largest clothier, Grinnell, Iowa
Description: Looking southwest from the corner of 4th Avenue and Broad Street. The Morse Building was constructed in 1889 after the 800 block of Broad Street was destroyed in the 1889 fire. 1912 postmark.
Date Created: 1912
PID: grinnell:13529

Title: Rinefort's, Spencer Building, Grinnell's largest clothier, [Grinnell, Iowa]
Description: Looking northeast from Fourth Avenue with bicycles and automobile. The Spencer Building was constructed in 1884 for a sum of $5,768.26. 1912 postmark.
Date Created: 1912
PID: grinnell:13558

Title: High Street, Kellogg, Iowa
Description: Looking up the street. Kingbury's Restaurant and Lunch Room is in the background. 1908 postmark.
Date Created: 1908
PID: grinnell:14360

Title: Hotel Tallcorn & Main Street looking west, Marshalltown, Iowa
Description: Looking west with automobiles. Listed in the National Register of Historic Places under Marshalltown Downtown Historic District. Number C19006.
Date Created: 1960
PID: grinnell:13968