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Title: Billy Robinson
Description: Billy Robinson, pioneer aviator from Grinnell, Iowa, in his airplane. Photo by Child Art Studio. Drake Community Library (Grinnell, Iowa) Archives. McNally photographs. Collection #1, Series #1-3.
Date Created: 1910
PID: grinnell:6165

Title: Billy Robinson in a Biplane
Description: Photograph of Billy Robinson, Grinnell aviator, in a biplane. Drake Community Library (Grinnell, Iowa) Archives. McNally photographs. Collection #1, Series #1-1.
Date Created: 1910
PID: grinnell:6204

Title: Billy Robinson's Airplane
Description: Billy Robinson's airplane, a parasol wing monoplane. W.C. "Billy" Robinson was an early aviator who set an American nonstop distance flight record in 1914. Drake Community Library (Grinnell, Iowa) Archives. McNally photographs. Collection #1, Series #1-3.
Date Created: 1910
PID: grinnell:6154

Title: Billy Robinson's airplane
Description: Postcard view of the port (left) side of Billy Robinson's airplane. Azo stamp box on verso. Drake Community Library (Grinnell, Iowa) Archives. McNally photographs. Collection #1, Series #1-1.
Date Created: 1915
PID: grinnell:6294

Title: Billy Robinson's airplane
Description: Postcard view of the starboard (right) side of Billy Robinson's airplane. Azo stamp box on verso. Drake Community Library (Grinnell, Iowa) Archives. McNally photographs. Collection #1, Series #1-1.
Date Created: 1915
PID: grinnell:6292

Title: Brock Family in their 1910 Spaulding Automobile
Description: The Brock family in their 1910 Spaulding automobile. Dr. A. J. Brock, DDS, and daughter Beatrice Brock, age 3 1/2, are in the front seat. Mrs. Edith Brock and son Atwood, age 1 1/2, are in the back seat. The Spaulding was a 2-door right-hand drive automobile built in Grinnell, Iowa, in 1910. It had a 4 cylinder, 30 hp Rutenear motor and cost about $4800. Drake Community Library Archives. Oversize photos.
Date Created: 1911
PID: grinnell:6061

Title: Early Automobiles
Description: Postcard view of three early (1910s) automobiles, one a Ford and one an Oakland. The postcard was sent on June 12, 1911 from Mort(?) Powers of New Sharon, Iowa, to John Mincer of Grinnell, Iowa. The X under the automobile on the right probably identifies Mr. Powers. Photo was possibly taken in New Sharon. Drake Community Library (Grinnell, Iowa) Archives. McNally photographs. Collection #1, Series #1-1.
Date Created: 1911
PID: grinnell:6213

Title: First Train Arrives in Grinnell
Description: The first train arrives in Grinnell, Iowa, in June 1863 on the Mississippi and Missouri railroad line. The Mississippi and Missouri line later became the Rock Island Railroad. Drake Community Library (Grinnell, Iowa) Archives. McNally photographs. Collection #1, Series #1-3.
Date Created: 1863
PID: grinnell:6163

Title: Five Cylinder Motor
Description: Postcard view of a five cylinder motor built in 1909 at the Grinnell Washing Machine factory for Billy Robinson, Grinnell, Iowa, native and pioneer aviator. Azo stamp box on verso. Drake Community Library (Grinnell, Iowa) Archives. McNally photographs. Collection #1, Series #1-1.
Date Created: 1909
PID: grinnell:6299

Title: Hitching Rack in Grinnell
Description: Postcard view of horses lined up at a hitching rack on Fourth Avenue on the south side of Central Park in Grinnell, Iowa. Grinnell High School visible in the background. Azo stamp box on verso. Drake Community Library (Grinnell, Iowa) Archives. McNally photographs. Collection #1, Series #1-1.
Date Created: 1910
PID: grinnell:6307