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Title: Broad Street looking North, Grinnell, Iowa
Description: Looking north on unpaved Broad Street with Central Park on right. 1912 postmark.
Date Created: 1912
PID: grinnell:14367

Title: First Congregational Church, Old Stone Church, United Church of Christ, Broad Street, Grinnell, Iowa
Description: Looking south on Broad Street with the Old Stone Church on left. 1909 postmark.
Date Created: 1909
PID: grinnell:13283

Title: Cafe on Main Street, Grinnell, Iowa
Description: Looking west Commercial Street. "At this time these buildings are slated to be torn down."--photo verso. Listed in the National Register of Historic Places under Grinnell Historic Commercial District. Title supplied by cataloger.
Date Created: 1975
PID: grinnell:13987

Title: Central Park, City Park, Grinnell, Iowa
Description: Looking northwest at Central Park from Third Avenue at Broad Street and park.
Date Created: 1920
PID: grinnell:13900

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: Central Park, Park scene, Grinnell, Iowa
Description: Looking northwest from Third Avenue at Broad Street and park. 1911 postmark. Number 899.
Date Created: 1911
PID: grinnell:13899

Title: Robinson, Billy, Photo taken by [Billy] Robinson from his 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: 1914
PID: grinnell:14512

Title: Polka Motor Company, Service station, Chelsea, Iowa
Description: Service station with gas pump and service station attendant. Title supplied by cataloger.
Date Created: 1920
PID: grinnell:13675

Title: Central Park, South Broad Street, Grinnell, Iowa
Description: Looking northwest from Third Avenue at Broad Street and park. Automobiles in background. Number 13888N.
Date Created: 1950
PID: grinnell:13901