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York Lumber, Clark Lumber Company, Grinnell, Iowa
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Description
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Truck pulling wagon full of lumber in from of warehouse. Sign says "We use lumber from the Clark Lumber Co." Verso says: "The 600 block of Broad, I remember this as York Lumber, J.B. Grinnell's big home was to the right after being moved from its location East of Central Park. All this was cleared for Mayflower homes in the 1980s". Title supplied by cataloger.
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Date Created
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1920
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PID
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grinnell:13589
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First National Bank, Brooklyn, Iowa
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Description
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Looking northeast from Front Street. Built in 1908 the First National Bank was considered the town In 1925 a notice was posted on the bank door announcing it was closed by the board of directors and turned over to a federal bank examiner.
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Date Created
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1920
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PID
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grinnell:14460
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Title
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Grinnell High School, Spaulding Stock Chassis, Making World's Record, [Grinnell, Iowa]
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Description
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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.
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Date Created
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1920
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PID
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grinnell:13299
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Title
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[Billy] Robinson flying, Grinnell, Iowa
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Description
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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.
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Date Created
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1920
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PID
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grinnell:14510