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Billy Robinson's "Scout"
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Description
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Black and white photograph of Billy Robinson's "Scout" parasol monoplane, the first design he built at the Grinnell Aeroplane Company.
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Date Created
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1913
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PID
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grinnell:26632
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Title
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Billy Robinson's airplane
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Description
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Postcard view of the port (left) side of Billy Robinson's airplane. Azo stamp box on verso. Drake Community Library (Grinnell, Iowa) Archives. McNally photographs. Collection #1, Series #1-1.
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Date Created
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1915
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PID
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grinnell:6294
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Title
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Billy Robinson's airplane
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Description
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Postcard view of the starboard (right) side of Billy Robinson's airplane. Azo stamp box on verso. Drake Community Library (Grinnell, Iowa) Archives. McNally photographs. Collection #1, Series #1-1.
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Date Created
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1915
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PID
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grinnell:6292
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Brock Family in their 1910 Spaulding Automobile
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Description
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The Brock family in their 1910 Spaulding automobile. Dr. A. J. Brock, DDS, and daughter Beatrice Brock, age 3 1/2, are in the front seat. Mrs. Edith Brock and son Atwood, age 1 1/2, are in the back seat. The Spaulding was a 2-door right-hand drive automobile built in Grinnell, Iowa, in 1910. It had a 4 cylinder, 30 hp Rutenear motor and cost about $4800. Drake Community Library Archives. Oversize photos.
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Date Created
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1911
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PID
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grinnell:6061
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Title
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Robinson Landing
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Description
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Postcard view of Billy Robinson landing his airplane in a field near Grinnell, Iowa. Photo by Child. Azo stamp box on verso. Drake Community Library (Grinnell, Iowa) Archives. McNally photographs. Collection #1, Series #1-1.
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Date Created
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1915
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PID
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grinnell:6293
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Title
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Spaulding Four Door Car
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Description
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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.
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Date Created
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1914
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PID
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grinnell:26633
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Title
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Spaulding H advertisement
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Description
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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
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Date Created
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1914
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PID
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grinnell:26628
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Title
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Spaulding Official Exposition Car
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Description
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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.
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Date Created
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1913
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PID
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grinnell:11830
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Title
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Spaulding Racer
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Description
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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"
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Date Created
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1913
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PID
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grinnell:26626
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Title
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Spaulding Stock Chassis Making World's Record
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Description
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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.
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Date Created
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1913
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PID
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grinnell:6297