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Title: Liscomb school, Christian Church, State Street looking north, Buildings and streets, Liscomb, Iowa
Description: Montage of Liscomb, Iowa: Liscomb School, Christian Church, State Street looking north
Date Created: 1920
PID: grinnell:13293

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: Main Street, Ames, Iowa, Cooley & Jones
Description: Looking west on Main Street at street trolley tracks. Cooley & Jones Harness shop is on the left. Title supplied by cataloger.
Date Created: 1920
PID: grinnell:13874

Title: Main Street, Cleghorn, Iowa, South Lewis Avenue
Description: Looking north on Main Street (now South Lewis Avenue) at a hardware store, meat market, millinery shop, and doctor's office on the left, and the post office and drug store on the right.
Date Created: 1920
PID: grinnell:14037

Title: Main Street, St. Anthony, Iowa
Description: Looking down a dirt Main Street with an automobile coming out of the city garage. A bandstand is in the background.
Date Created: 1920
PID: grinnell:14308

Title: Panorama of Malcom, Iowa
Description: Looking north. Panoramic view of residential street and business district of Malcom, Iowa.
Date Created: 1920
PID: grinnell:13971

Title: South side before fire on March 8, 1923, Derby, Iowa, City Meat Market, Grimes and Winslow
Description: Looking south from the railroad tracks at the City Meat Market and the Grimes and Winslow building. 1920 postmark.
Date Created: 1920
PID: grinnell:15742

Title: Grinnell High School, Spaulding Stock Chassis, Making World's Record, [Grinnell, Iowa]
Description: Looking northeast at Spaulding car driving west on Fourth Avenue. Hatch Apartments in background. Originally started manufacturing buggies, the Spaulding Manufacturing Company introduced the first Spaulding automobile in 1909. However, the Spaulding automobile never caught on and the last vehicle was made in 1916.
Date Created: 1920
PID: grinnell:13299