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Title: City Hall and fire station, Grinnell, Iowa
Description: Looking south from Commercial Street at fire engine and firemen. Bell tower on building. The fire station served from 1889 to 1957, when a new station was built on Fourth Avenue.
Date Created: 1920
PID: grinnell:14522

Title: York Lumber, Clark Lumber Company, Grinnell, Iowa
Description: 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.
Date Created: 1920
PID: grinnell:13589

Title: E.W. Clark Memorial Fountain, Central Park, Clark's Memorial Fountain, Grinnell, Iowa
Description: Looking southeast from Broad Street at fountain and park. This fountain was built in 1911 and dismantled in 1959. Named for local physician E.W. Clark.
Date Created: 1920
PID: grinnell:13441

Title: First National Bank, Brooklyn, Iowa
Description: 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.
Date Created: 1920
PID: grinnell:14460

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: 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: IOOF building, Independent Order of Odd Fellows, Duffus, J.H. Building, Hays, George, General Merchandise, I.O.O.F. building, Malcom, Iowa
Description: Looking west. Sign on window says "Gigantic Clearing of Shoes, Laughter-in-Price". Title supplied by cataloger.
Date Created: 1920
PID: grinnell:13368

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