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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: Rinefort's, Morse Building, Grinnell's largest clothier, Grinnell, Iowa
Description: Looking southwest from the corner of 4th Avenue and Broad Street. The Morse Building was constructed in 1889 after the 800 block of Broad Street was destroyed in the 1889 fire. 1912 postmark.
Date Created: 1912
PID: grinnell:13529

Title: Rinefort's, Spencer Building, Grinnell's largest clothier, [Grinnell, Iowa]
Description: Looking northeast from Fourth Avenue with bicycles and automobile. The Spencer Building was constructed in 1884 for a sum of $5,768.26. 1912 postmark.
Date Created: 1912
PID: grinnell:13558

Title: Jackson Street north, Brooklyn, Iowa
Description: Looking north on Jackson Street in Brooklyn, Iowa. Gas light in foreground with power pole and clock. Number 7.
Date Created: 1915
PID: grinnell:14442

Title: B.P.O.E. Building, BPOE, Benevolent & Protective Order of Elks, Spencer Building, Main Street looking north, Grinnell, Iowa
Description: Looking north from Fourth Avenue with B.P.O.E. Building and Spencer Building in foreground. 1911 postmark. Number 919.
Date Created: 1911
PID: grinnell:13403

Title: B.P.O.E. Building, BPOE Building, Benevolent & Protective Order of Elks, Spencer Building, Main Street looking north, Grinnell, Iowa
Description: Looking north from Fourth Avenue with B.P.O.E. Building and Spencer Building in foreground . Number 919.
Date Created: 1915
PID: grinnell:13405

Title: Main Street, Brooklyn, Iowa, Jackson Street, Corinthian Lodge
Description: Looking southwest on Jackson Street in Brooklyn, Iowa. Shorter wooden building has "Photo Rooms" on the front. The large brick building with stone front is the Corinthian Lodge built in 1865 at a cost of $7,000 and has the initials "A.F. & A.M." on the front. The Ancient Free and Accepted Masons (A.F. & A.M.), No. 174, was organized in 1864 and chartered in 1865. 1910 postmark.
Date Created: 1910
PID: grinnell:13851

Title: I.O.O.F. Hall, IOOF Hall, Independent Order of Odd Fellows Hall, Main Street, Brooklyn, Iowa
Date Created: 1910
PID: grinnell:13349

Title: Main Street, Deep River, Iowa
Description: Looking west at the state bank with a number of people possibly just getting out of church. 1910 postmark.
Date Created: 1910
PID: grinnell:18257

Title: Spencer Building, Main Street, Grinnell, Iowa
Description: Looking northwest at Main Street from Fourth Avenue with Spencer Building in foreground1908 postmark. Number 62.
Date Created: 1908
PID: grinnell:13647