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Title: Arbor Lake, Grinnell, Iowa -- 87
Description: Postcard view of Arbor Lake in Grinnell, Iowa. Boathouse visible in the distance; bridge in the foreground. Picture is taken looking to the southeast. Published by Iowa Calendar Co., Marshalltown, Iowa. Drake Community Library (Grinnell, Iowa) Archives. McNally photographs. Collection #1, Series #1-1.
Date Created: 1913
PID: grinnell:6260

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: Fourth Ave., West, Grinnell, Ia., Fourth Avenue Looking West, Grinnell, Iowa
Description: Color postcard view of Fourth Avenue in Grinnell, Iowa, looking west from approximately the intersection of Fourth Avenue and Broad Street. The Old Stone Church (Congregational) is visible on the right hand side. Buggies are parked along the south side of the street next to Central Park. Postcard is addressed to Miss Maggie King, Cincinnati, Iowa, and postmarked August 5, 1913. Drake Community Library (Grinnell, Iowa) Archives. Miscellaneous photographs. Collection #17-2, Grinnell Buildings.
Date Created: 1913
PID: grinnell:11304

Title: Grant Wilson Family
Description: The Grant "Connie" Wilson family posing on the front porch of their home in Grinnell, Iowa, circa 1913. Back row, from left to right: Cecil George Jay Wilson (1899-1948), Lucy May Wilson (1891-?), "Pop" Henry William Wilson (1894-1946), and Marie Leona Wilson (1896-1963). Back row: Grant "Connie" Wilson (1867-1932) holding Russell Lynch, unknown (identified as "Little Dad"), Sarah Doud Wilson (1866-1939), and Pauline Wilson (1903-1976). Grant and Sarah were the parents of Cecil (who went by "Jay"), Lucy, Henry, Marie, Pauline, and Paul (not pictured). The baby Russell Lynch, was Lucy's son and Grant and Sarah's grandson. The Wilsons lived at 408 2nd Avenue in 1910 and at 318 Broad Street in 1920.
Date Created: 1913
PID: grinnell:12433

Title: Poweshiek Club
Description: Members of the Poweshiek Club, Grinnell, Iowa, in 1913. Top row: Grant Ramsey, J.P. Ryan, Harry Harris, Scott MacEachron, Lambert Woods, Louis Kemmerer, Jesse Fellows, Fred Spaulding. Middle Row: Tad Lyon, John Gannaway, Ernest Spaulding, Harry Lamphere, Ben Ricker, L.G. Lemley, C.A. Radford, Ed Brande, Harold Beyer. Bottom Row: Harry Lyman, C.E. Harris, Will Haydon, George Hamlin, A.L. Frisbie, Sam Buck, Bert Clark, J.D. Stoops. Drake Community Library Archives. Oversize photos.
Date Created: 1913
PID: grinnell:6077

Title: Spaulding Official Exposition Car
Description: Postcard with an image of the Spaulding Exposition Car. Legend reads: " Spaulding San Diego distributor and Official Panama Exposition car logging and filming Ocean to Ocean Highway from San Diego, California, to New York." Drake Community Library (Grinnell, Iowa) Archives. Miscellaneous photographs. Collection #17-4, Spaulding Company.
Date Created: 1913
PID: grinnell:11830

Title: Spaulding Racer
Description: Black and white photograph of the Spaulding Racer, a lightweight two-seat open-top car built on a stock chassis that broke the records for fastest time driving across Iowa and for highest speed on a dirt road during the 1913 River-to-River race. A sign on the car reads "THIS "SPAULDING" STOCK CHASSIS HOLDS THE CROSS STATE RECORD AND WORLD'S HIGH SPEED DIRT ROAD RECORD 337.8 MILES IN 8 HRS.14 MIN"
Date Created: 1913
PID: grinnell:26626

Title: Spaulding Stock Chassis Making World's Record
Description: Postcard view of Hal Wells driving the Spaulding racer, a lightweight two-passenger wooden body on a stock chassis, during the October 1913 River to River Road race. This view shows Wells driving west in the 500 block of 4th Avenue, in Grinnell, Iowa, during the race in which a world's dirt-road speed record was set. Azo stamp box on verso. Drake Community Library (Grinnell, Iowa) Archives. McNally photographs. Collection #1, Series #1-1.
Date Created: 1913
PID: grinnell:6297

Title: Spaulding Stock Chassis Making World's Record
Description: Hal Wells was the driver of the Spaulding racer, a lightweight two-passenger wooden body on a stock chassis, during the October 1913 River to River Road race. Postcard view shows Wells driving west on 4th Avenue, in Grinnell, Iowa, during the race in which a world's dirt-road speed record was set. The intersection pictured is the intersection of 4th Avenue and West Street. Drake Community Library (Grinnell, Iowa) Archives. McNally photographs. Collection #1, Series #1-1.
Date Created: 1913
PID: grinnell:6252

Title: Spaulding Stock Chassis Making World's Record
Description: Hal Wells was the driver of the Spaulding racer, a lightweight two-passenger wooden body on a stock chassis, during the October 1913 River to River Road race. Postcard view shows Wells driving west on 4th Avenue, in Grinnell, Iowa, during the race in which a world's dirt-road speed record was set. The intersection pictured is the intersection of 4th Avenue and West Street. Azo stamp box on verso. Drake Community Library (Grinnell, Iowa) Archives. Miscellaneous photographs. Collection #17-4, Spaulding Company.
Date Created: 1913
PID: grinnell:11829