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Title: Dr. E.W. Clark Plays the Drums
Description: Dr. E.W. Clark of Grinnell, Iowa, plays the drums. Drake Community Library (Grinnell, Iowa) Archives. Miscellaneous photographs. Collection #17-6, People.
Date Created: 1880
PID: grinnell:12477

Title: Grinnell Wire Company Advertising Postcard
Description: Stamped one cent advertising postcard from the Grinnell Wire Company offering contracts for Grinnell Barb Wire. Drake Community Library (Grinnell, Iowa) Archives. McNally photographs. Collection #1, Series #1-1.
Date Created: 1880
PID: grinnell:6361

Title: Iowa College, Grinnell, Iowa
Description: Engraving of Iowa College, known as Grinnell College, in Grinnell, Iowa by Thomas Chubbuck. Buildings from left to right: Chicago Hall, Blair Hall, Alumni Hall.
Date Created: 1880
PID: grinnell:11798

Title: Johnson and Wadsworth Drugs
Description: Johnson and Wadsworth Drug store in Grinnell, Iowa. Preston Grocers wagon visible on the far right side. Located on the west side of Broad Street between 4th Avenue and Commercial and taken before the fire of 1889. Johnson rebuilt in the same location after the fire. Drake Community Library (Grinnell, Iowa) Archives. McNally photographs. Collection #1, Series #1-2.
Date Created: 1880
PID: grinnell:6421

Title: Photograph of Grinnell College in the 1870s
Description: Photograph of Grinnell College in the 1870s. On the left is West College, built in 1867, and on the right, Central College, built in 1872. Both buildings, which constituted the entire college at the time, were destroyed in the great cyclone of 1882. Drake Community Library (Grinnell, Iowa) Archives. Miscellaneous photographs. Collection #17-3, Grinnell College.
Date Created: 1880
PID: grinnell:11780

Title: Portrait of an Unidentified Man
Description: Portrait of an unidentified man, probably an early settler of Grinnell, Iowa. Photo by Child. Drake Community Library (Grinnell, Iowa) Archives. Miscellaneous photographs. Collection #17-6, People.
Date Created: 1880
PID: grinnell:13070

Title: Susie Johanna Whitcomb
Description: Portrait of Susan Johanna Whitcomb, daughter of Abram and Mary Whitcomb, early settlers in the Grinnell area. She was an 1877 graduate of Grinnell College, an author and an educator. Portrait by Chas. L. Walker, photographer, Grinnell, Iowa. Drake Community Library (Grinnell, Iowa) Archives. Miscellaneous photographs. Collection #17-6, People.
Date Created: 1880
PID: grinnell:13018

Title: Old Stone Church
Description: The Congregational Church, also known as the Old Stone Church, built in Grinnell, Iowa, on the northeast corner of Broad Street and 4th Avenue in 1877(?) There is no steeple on the southwest tower of the church. Drake Community Library (Grinnell, Iowa) Archives. McNally photographs. Collection #1, Series #1-3.
Date Created: 1880
PID: grinnell:6157

Title: Train at Station
Description: Photograph of a train at a station, possibly an early Grinnell, Iowa, depot building. The engineer, conductor, and stoker are posing near the engine. A note on the verso of the photo identifies it as "Rock Island depot." Drake Community Library (Grinnell, Iowa) Archives. McNally photographs. Collection #1, Series #1-2.
Date Created: 1880
PID: grinnell:6413