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Title: Big store, Newton, Iowa
Description: Crowd gathering around a three-story brick building with a birthday party sign hanging from the side. Notice other torn signs hanging in the power lines.Number 2880.
Date Created: 1910
PID: grinnell:14311

Title: Center Street looking east, Elgin, Iowa
Description: Looking east on Center Street. The town of Elgin was laid out in the fall and winter of 1851-52, by Samuel Connor, M.V. Burdick being the surveyor. Mr. Burdick named it Elgin in honor of Elgin, Illinois his native community. The plat was recorded in 1855. Number 5006.
PID: grinnell:16004

Title: Main Street looking north, Bode, Iowa, Humboldt Avenue, Opheim and Gangestad General Store, Opheim General Store
Description: Looking north on Main Street in Bode, Iowa. The first building on the left is the general merchandise store started by Lars K. Opheim and is brother-in-law James J. Gangestad which opened in Bode on June 3, 1883. The construction began on the building in May, 1882 and finished in the fall. The structure was 30 x 34 feet, and was two stories in height. The upper story was designed to be living quarters. The cost for the building was $2,500. In 1894 Opheim purchased his partner's share in the business and ran it until 1910 when he sold the store and retired. 1910 postmark.
Date Created: 1910
PID: grinnell:14174

Title: Main Street, Badger, Iowa, P.A. Houge & Son Hardware Store
Description: Looking northeast at the P.A. Houge Hardware Store, second building from the left, and a water pump in the foreground. Badger was recognized as a town since 1882, but it was not until February 8, 1900, that the town was incorporated. 1910 postmark. Date handwritten on front of card is 4/2/10.
Date Created: 1910
PID: grinnell:14470

Title: Main Street, Badger, Iowa
Description: Looking southeast. Badger was recognized as a town since 1882, but it was not until February 8, 1900, that the town was incorporated. 1910 postmark. Date on front: 4/2/10.
Date Created: 1910
PID: grinnell:14469

Title: Main Street, Defiance, Iowa
Description: Looking east on Main Street at a train rolling through town in the background.
Date Created: 1910
PID: grinnell:16943

Title: Street scene, Eagle Grove, Iowa, West Broadway Street
Description: Looking northwest on West Broadway Street at several businesses including on the right Leuthold & Hinkley Clothing who dealt in hats and general clothing lines was opened in 1913 by John Leuthold and Guy A. Hinkley, Christeson & Jensen Grocery Store, Schoonover Brothers Grocery, owned by Harry and Howard Schoonover, a drugstore, and the Princess Theatre opened in the early 1910s and refurbished in April 1918, and the Ray E. Roper Hardware Store in the left foreground. Number 5815.
PID: grinnell:15099

Title: Street scene, Eldora, Iowa, Washington Street
Description: Looking north on Washington Street with the The First National Bank built in 1917 by Proudfoot, Bird and Rawson from Des Moines and a drug store on the left, and the Newcomer Building and H.W. Emeny Auto Company on the right. Number 666.
PID: grinnell:16798