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Title: Blackhawk Coal and Dock Company, Davenport, Iowa
Description: On front: One view of our Davenport coal yard and offices, Blackhawk Coal & Dock Co., front of Perry Street, Tel. Dav. 391.
Date Created: 1920
PID: grinnell:16206

Title: York Lumber, Clark Lumber Company, Grinnell, Iowa
Description: Truck pulling wagon full of lumber in from of warehouse. Sign says "We use lumber from the Clark Lumber Co." Verso says: "The 600 block of Broad, I remember this as York Lumber, J.B. Grinnell's big home was to the right after being moved from its location East of Central Park. All this was cleared for Mayflower homes in the 1980s". Title supplied by cataloger.
Date Created: 1920
PID: grinnell:13589

Title: M.E. Church, Anita, Iowa, Methodist Episcopal Church, United Methodist Church
Description: Looking at the Methodist Episcopal Church with horses and carriage in front. Number 34552.
Date Created: 1920
PID: grinnell:13574

Title: Oakland Avenue residence district, Council Bluffs, Iowa, Fletcher Avenue
Description: Looking northeast from the corner of Oakland Avenue and Fletcher Avenue at house that appears to be still standing. 1920 postmark. Number A-37246.
Date Created: 1920
PID: grinnell:14686

Title: Standard gas station, Oskaloosa, Iowa
Description: The station was built in 1913. This is the first oil station in Oskaloosa.--photo verso.
Date Created: 1920
PID: grinnell:13975

Title: [Billy] Robinson flying, Grinnell, Iowa
Description: 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:14510