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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: Central Park, South Broad Street, Grinnell, Iowa
Description: Looking northwest from Third Avenue at Broad Street and park. Automobiles in background. Number 13888N.
Date Created: 1950
PID: grinnell:13901

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: View, north on Jackson Street, Brooklyn, Iowa
Description: Looking north on Jackson Street in Brooklyn, Iowa. Number 61795.
Date Created: 1905
PID: grinnell:14440