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Title: 5th Street, west, Carroll, Iowa, Fifth Street, West
Description: Looking west from corner of Fifth Street and Main Street. Number 40681. Series 8A771.
Date Created: 1915
PID: grinnell:13866

Title: A Glimpse of the New Quadrangle For Women at Grinnell College, The New Quad
Description: A booklet describing the need for new women's housing, as well as photographs of the new housing being built. Printed circa 1915.
Date Created: 1915
PID: grinnell:1000

Title: Adel State Bank, Adel, Iowa, Rexall Drug Store, Tawney, J.F.
Description: Looking northwest at the corner of Ninth and Main Streets at the Adel State Bank, the Rexall Drug Store, and J.F. Tawney's Grocery Store. The building was built in 1908. It is located at 901 Main Street, Adel, Dallas County, Iowa, and is listed in the National Register of Historic Places. Number 19.
Date Created: 1915
PID: grinnell:14290

Title: Allison Hotel, Cedar Rapids, Iowa
Description: Looking at a five-story brick and stone hotel building that once housed the Bishops cafeteria. The cafeteria closed in 1981 and the hotel was demolished in 1983 to create a new parking lot. 1915 postmark. Number 74. Series 189.
Date Created: 1915
PID: grinnell:14137

Title: Band stand, Central Park, Charles City, Iowa
Description: Woman and child sitting on the Central Park bandstand. The third block (Block 9) from the river along Mill Street (now North Main Street) was envisioned by city planners, Joseph and Malinda Kelly to be the center of the city so he set it aside as the public square, and it has ever since remained open as public land and park. It is now named Central Park. Central Park is listed on the National Register of Historic Places as part of the North Main Street Historic District. 1918 postmark. Number A-58774.
Date Created: 1915
PID: grinnell:14572

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: Birds' eye view, Iowa State Fair Grounds, Des Moines, Iowa, Iowa State Fairgrounds, John Deere Agriculture Building, Administration Building
Description: Looking southeast at the Agriculture Building on the left and the Administration Building on the right. The Agriculture Building was built in 1904 and is one of the best remaining examples of exposition-style architecture anywhere in the world. The Administration Building was built in 1908 and the original fountain still stands in the main lobby. The Iowa State Fair and Exposition Grounds Historic District is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. 1915 postmark.
Date Created: 1915
PID: grinnell:16086

Title: Birdseye view looking east, Cedar Rapids, Iowa, Cedar Rapids Post Office and Federal Building, Cedar Rapids Business College
Description: Looking east on 2nd Avenue SE with the Cedar Rapids Post Office and Federal Building on the right and the Cedar Rapids Business College shown in the background. The post office and federal building was constructed in 1895 at a cost of $100,000 and renovated and enlarged in 1906 at a cost of $215,000 by James Knox Taylor, supervising architect of the United States Treasury. Listed in the National Register of Historic Places. The Cedar Rapids Business College was constructed in 1911 and located on the corner of Second Avenue and Fifth Street. 1915 postmark. Number 74.
Date Created: 1915
PID: grinnell:14138

Title: Blair Hall, Grinnell College, Grinnell, Iowa
Description: Looking northwest. Blair Hall was constructed in 1882-1886, razed in 1961. Cost was $37,200 excl. grading and landscaping. Orignally housed the college chapel, the departments of chemistry, natural science, mathematics, and physics. Number R-57038.
Date Created: 1915
PID: grinnell:14548