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Title: North Star Mill, American Cereal Company, Aerial view looking northwest from Maytag Hotel, Newton, Iowa
Description: View of shops on North 2nd Avenue East and in background the Maytag plant. Number 65687. Series 408-D-5. Verso says:Newton is generally referred to as "The manufacturing center of the Middle West" and the Maytag Company seen in the distance is the world's largest manufacturer of washing machines."
Date Created: 1960
PID: grinnell:14320

Title: Looking southeast at South Main Street, New Sharon, Iowa, Bird's eye view of New Sharon, Iowa
Description: Looking southeast at South Main Street, New Sharon, Iowa. Number B1733A1.
Date Created: 1910
PID: grinnell:13738

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: Robinson, Billy, Photo taken by [Billy] Robinson from his 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: 1914
PID: grinnell:14512

Title: Central school, View from water tank, Newton, Iowa
Description: Looking southeast at the Jasper County Court House and the Central School building in the background from the water tower.
Date Created: 1922
PID: grinnell:13896

Title: View south west from court house, Newton, Iowa
Description: Looking southwest from the court house at the Jasper County Savings Bank with water tower in background. 1914 postmark. Number 5.
Date Created: 1914
PID: grinnell:14313