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Title: Billy Robinson's "Scout"
Description: Black and white photograph of Billy Robinson's "Scout" parasol monoplane, the first design he built at the Grinnell Aeroplane Company.
Date Created: 1913
PID: grinnell:26632

Title: Buildings along Rock Island railroad line
Description: Buildings along RI (Rock Island) line before Grinnell Fire, possibly Central Park West. Several two-story brick buildings are visible in the background along with telephone poles. There is a wheeled cart in the middle at the right edge.
Date Created: 1880
PID: grinnell:23226

Title: Emery S. Bartlett in horse-drawn buggy
Description: Black and white photograph showing Emery S. Bartlett (1832-1915) driving a carriage pulled by a black horse. One of the first residents of Grinnell, Emery was a successful meat marketer and horse trainer. Written inscription on back reads as follows: "Emery S Bartlett with farmile driving horse / probably about 1890 / He loved good - and fast - driving horses, and in the early 1900s owned and raced fast harness horses. / This horse was not particularly beautiful - but was very faithful and only reluctantly did Mr. Bartlett consent to the disposal of the enfeebled horse about 1904."
Date Created: 1890
PID: grinnell:23268

Title: Henry W. Spaulding
Description: Black and white photograph showing Henry W. Spaulding (1846-1937) dressed in a long coat and holding a hat, standing in front of a painted forest backdrop. Henry was the founder of Spaulding Manufacturing Company, in addition to being an Iowa state senator from 1910 the mayor of Grinnell for a short period of time.
Date Created: 1880
PID: grinnell:23271

Title: Henry W. Spaulding
Description: Sepia photograph showing Henry W. Spaulding (1846-1937) seated in a relaxed pose and wearing a suit with a fine watch fob.
Date Created: 1880
PID: grinnell:23242

Title: Horses and wagon in Grinnell
Description: Sepia cabinet card photograph of a wagon drawn by two horses in downtown Grinnell, Iowa. Two unidentified men sit in the wagon and the road is not paved. The picture was taken looking north into 4th Avenue from Main Street. The building on the right is advertising Organs & Sewing Machines.
Date Created: 1885
PID: grinnell:26629

Title: Restored 1926 Chevy truck
Description: Black and white photograph of a 1926 Chevrolet truck whose body was constructed by the Spaulding Manufacturing Company in Grinnell. The truck was restored and being shown at an auto show in 1992. The location of the show and the owner of the truck are unknown.
Date Created: 1992
PID: grinnell:26645

Title: Spaulding Four Door Car
Description: Black and white photograph of a Spaulding open-top four-door car (model unknown) in front of a house. The license number is 47408 W/15. Three people are sitting in the car: a boy in white clothes and straw hat, a woman whose hat has a very large puff of some sort on the left side, and a man in the driver's seat who is wearing a suit and small brimmed hat. The car is in the yard of a dark colored frame house.
Date Created: 1914
PID: grinnell:26633

Title: Spaulding H advertisement
Description: Copy of an ad for the Spaulding H 5-passenger car in the January 1914 issue of 'The Automobile' magazine. At the time, this Sleeper car sold for $1875. The ad is titled "Spaulding Radically Refines Bodies" and describes the changes and benefits of this newest model
Date Created: 1914
PID: grinnell:26628