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Title: Main Street, Chelsea, Iowa
Description: Looking north on Main Street (now Station Street) business district in Chelsea, Iowa. Huiskamp Shoes sign on side of building. The town of Chelsea was laid out in 1863 by Seneca Breese and J. Hunter within one square mile area about ten miles east of Tama City. 1908 postmark.
Date Created: 1908
PID: grinnell:14091

Title: Spencer Building, Main Street, Grinnell, Iowa
Description: Looking northwest at Main Street from Fourth Avenue with Spencer Building in foreground1908 postmark. Number 62.
Date Created: 1908
PID: grinnell:13647

Title: Methodist Episcopal Church, United Methodist Church, Methodist Church, Grinnell, Iowa
Description: Looking southwest on corner of Fifth Avenue and Park Street. The Methodist Church was begun in 1895 and completed and dedicated in 1896. Richardsonian Romanesque in architectural styling. 1908 postmark. Number 156902.
Date Created: 1908
PID: grinnell:13576

Title: M.E. Church, Methodist Episcopal Church, Ira, Iowa
Description: One-story wooden building with bell tower. 1908 postmark. Number 63.
Date Created: 1908
PID: grinnell:13732

Title: Morrison Glove Factory, Grinnell Gloves, Morrison & Ricker Manufacturing Company, Glove Factory, Grinnell, Iowa
Description: Looking west from Broad Street. Established in 1856, the glove factory was Grinnell's first industry which originally manufactured gauntlet gloves. The building now houses Grinnell College offices. 1908 postmark. Number 156891.
Date Created: 1908
PID: grinnell:13476

Title: Newton High School, Newton, Iowa
Description: The Newton High School was erected in 1907 at a cost of $72,000. It was built on the most modern and approved plans for school buildings, even to the items of sanitary drinking fountains. In 1957 high school grades 10-12 were moved to the new high school and the this building became part of the junior high campus. 1908 postmark.
Date Created: 1908
PID: grinnell:14451

Title: Grinnell High School, Orchestra, State Industrial School for Girls, Mitchellville, Iowa
Description: The original seminary was founded by the city's founder, Thomas Mitchell, in 1872. It fell on hard times and was bought by the state of Iowa who turned it into a reformatory school for girls. In the early 1980's it was turned into the Iowa Correctional Institute for Women. 1908 postmark.
Date Created: 1908
PID: grinnell:13774

Title: Public Library, De Witt, Iowa
Description: Looking east from the corner of Main Street (Sixth Avenue) and Ninth Street. The DeWitt Public Library was built in 1907 with the help of a $6,500 grant from Andrew Carnegie. 1908 postmark.
Date Created: 1908
PID: grinnell:16072

Title: Public library, Eagle Grove, Iowa, Eagle Grove Public Library, Carnegie library, Eagle Grove Historical Society
Description: Looking northwest at an example of Carnegie Library architecture in the Beaux-Arts style completed in 1903 by architects Smith and Gage from Des Moines, Iowa. It is currently being used as the Eagle Grove Historical Society. Listed in the National Register of Historic Places. Located at 210 West Broadway Street, Eagle Grove, Wright County, Iowa. 1908 postmark.
Date Created: 1908
PID: grinnell:16018