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Title: Baptist Church, Grinnell, Iowa
Description: 1000 block of Fifth Avenue near Brand apartment building-photo verso. In October 1864, the Baptist Church was removed from its 1st location at 2nd & West Street and placed at 4th Avenue & Broad Street. It was torn down in the early 1950s. Number 9622.
Date Created: 1920
PID: grinnell:14364

Title: Baptist Church, Grinnell, Iowa
Description: 1000 block of Fifth Avenue near Brand apartment building-photo verso. In October 1864, the Baptist Church removed from its first location at 2nd & West Street and placed at 4th Avenue & Broad Street. It was torn down in the early 1950s. Number 9622.
Date Created: 1920
PID: grinnell:14018

Title: First United Presbyterian Church, Grinnell, Iowa
Description: Looking southwest on corner of Fifth Avenue and State Street. The United Presbyterian Church was built in 1907 and razed in 1977 for the new church. Number 920.
Date Created: 1920
PID: grinnell:14488

Title: First United Presbyterian Church, Grinnell, Iowa
Description: Looking southwest on corner of Fifth Avenue and State Street. The United Presbyterian Church was built in 1907 and razed in 1977 for the new church. Number 920.
Date Created: 1920
PID: grinnell:14487

Title: Grinnell Hospital, Grinnell, Iowa
Description: Looking west from Park Street. Grinnell's first municipal hospital was opened in 1908 at Sixth Avenue & Elm Street. The building is now a private residence.e. Number 938.
Date Created: 1920
PID: grinnell:14527

Title: Grinnell Washing Machine Company, Grinnell, Iowa
Description: Looking southwest. The Grinnell Washing Machine Company was established in Grinnell in 1909 with a successful run in washing machines. However, due to poor admiistration, it went bankrupt in 1937. Number 132.
Date Created: 1920
PID: grinnell:13988

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: Headquarters, Camp King Abbott Troop D, Est. Iowa Cavalry, Grinnell, Iowa
Description: Military tents set up on the Grinnell High School footbal field by the Iowa Cavalry from Camp King Abbott Troop D.
Date Created: 1920
PID: grinnell:14375

Title: Home of Georgiana Holloway, Grinnell, Iowa
Description: Home of Georgiana Holloway, Grinnell College graduate and "prominent grade school teacher for many years."--photo verso. Title supplied by cataloger.
Date Created: 1920
PID: grinnell:13983

Title: Grinnell High School, Interior of Spaulding factory, Grinnell, Iowa
Description: Interior of Spaulding Factory with workers assemblying automobiles. Originally started manufacturing buggies, the Spaulding Manufacturing Company introduced the first Spaulding automobile in 1909. Title supplied by cataloger. However, the Spaulding automobile never caught on and the last vehicle was made in 1916. Listed in the National Register of Historic Places.
Date Created: 1920
PID: grinnell:13557