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Title: St. Mary's Catholic Church, Catholic Church, Grinnell, Iowa
Description: Looking northeast on corner of Broad Street and Fifth Avenue with automobiles and U.S. route 32 sign. St. Mary's Catholic Church was built in the mid-twenties and dedicated in February 1927. Built in the Romanesque style. Cost was $59,000. Number 872.
Date Created: 1940
PID: grinnell:13643

Title: York Lumber, Clark Lumber Company, Grinnell, Iowa
Description: Truck pulling wagon full of lumber in from of warehouse. Sign says "We use lumber from the Clark Lumber Co." Verso says: "The 600 block of Broad, I remember this as York Lumber, J.B. Grinnell's big home was to the right after being moved from its location East of Central Park. All this was cleared for Mayflower homes in the 1980s". Title supplied by cataloger.
Date Created: 1920
PID: grinnell:13589

Title: Marshall County Courthouse, County court house, Marshalltown, Iowa
Description: Looking northwest. Construction of the Marshall County Courthouse began in 1884 and was finished in 1886 costing $150,000. Located at 1 East Main Street, Marshalltown, Marshall County, Iowa. 1910 postmark. Number 1604. Series 252.
Date Created: 1910
PID: grinnell:13721

Title: Jasper County Court House, Jasper County Courthouse, Court house, Newton, Iowa
Description: Looking northwestt from First Street. The court house construction was completed in 1911 using Bedford (Indiana) limestone, lined with brick and costing $140,825.71. Located at 101 1st Street North, Newton, Jasper County, Iowa. Listed in the National Register of Historic Places. Number 14.
Date Created: 1911
PID: grinnell:13499

Title: Rexall Drug Store, Fourth Avenue East from Main Street, Grinnell, Iowa
Description: Looking east from Main Street with delivery truck "Rexall Special Delivery" and bicyclist. On verso: "A good shot of 4th in 800 blk. notice the awnings. About 1920 to 1925. The Sullivan Bank is there and the Model T could be from 1912 to 1927. Hard to say. Also the State Bank is done." Number 545.
Date Created: 1925
PID: grinnell:13665

Title: High school, Newton, Iowa
Description: The Newton High School was erected just west from Central school building in 1907/1908 at a cost of $72,000. It was built on the most modern and approved plans for school buildings, even to the items of sanitary drinking fountains. The building was later known as the west building of Central Junior High and in 1983 it was razed and the site sold. Number 5020.
Date Created: 1935
PID: grinnell:14326

Title: Plane crash of Billy Robinson, Grinnell, IowaC, Corpse, Wreckage, Death
Description: Billy Robinson's broken body lying next to his monoplane. 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. Title supplied by cataloger.
Date Created: 1916
PID: grinnell:14511

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, The city park, Grinnell, Iowa
Description: Looking northeast at Central Park from Broad Street at park. Children playing on antique cannon. Bicycles in background. Number 9619.
Date Created: 1960
PID: grinnell:13898