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Title: Nelson & Sons Sample Day, Grinnell, Iowa
Description: Looking southwest from Fourth Avenue. Nelson & Sons carried dry goods and groceries and held sample days for the town. Title supplied by cataloger.
Date Created: 1910
PID: grinnell:13989

Title: Third Avenue, Central Park, Monroe Hotel, Park Street north from 3rd Avenue, Grinnell, Iowa
Description: Looking north from Park Street with Central Park and Monroe Hotel in foreground. 1912 postmark. Number 61.
Date Created: 1912
PID: grinnell:13319

Title: Central Park, Monroe Hotel, Park Street, Grinnell, Iowa
Description: Looking north from Park Street with Central Park and Monroe Hotel in foreground. 1914 postmark. Number 126.
Date Created: 1914
PID: grinnell:13528

Title: Central Park, Park scene, Grinnell, Iowa
Description: Looking northwest from Third Avenue at Broad Street and park. 1911 postmark. Number 899.
Date Created: 1911
PID: grinnell:13899

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: Polka Motor Company, Service station, Chelsea, Iowa
Description: Service station with gas pump and service station attendant. Title supplied by cataloger.
Date Created: 1920
PID: grinnell:13675

Title: Grinnell High School, Spaulding Stock Chassis, Making World's Record, [Grinnell, Iowa]
Description: Looking northeast at Spaulding car driving west on Fourth Avenue. Hatch Apartments in background. Originally started manufacturing buggies, the Spaulding Manufacturing Company introduced the first Spaulding automobile in 1909. However, the Spaulding automobile never caught on and the last vehicle was made in 1916.
Date Created: 1920
PID: grinnell:13299

Title: First Congregational Church, United Church of Christ, Old Stone Church, View of Broad Street, Grinnell, Iowa
Description: Looking northwest at Broad Street from Fourth Avenue with Congregational Church in the foreground. 1907 postmark. Title supplied by cataloger.
Date Created: 1907
PID: grinnell:13314