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Title: Billy Robinson
Description: Billy Robinson, pioneer aviator from Grinnell, Iowa, in his airplane. Photo by Child Art Studio. Drake Community Library (Grinnell, Iowa) Archives. McNally photographs. Collection #1, Series #1-3.
Date Created: 1910
PID: grinnell:6165

Title: Billy Robinson in a Biplane
Description: Photograph of Billy Robinson, Grinnell aviator, in a biplane. Drake Community Library (Grinnell, Iowa) Archives. McNally photographs. Collection #1, Series #1-1.
Date Created: 1910
PID: grinnell:6204

Title: Brock Family in their 1910 Spaulding Automobile
Description: 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.
Date Created: 1911
PID: grinnell:6061

Title: Charles Austin Palmer and Nora Belle Brown
Description: Postcard image of Charles Austin Palmer and Nora Belle Brown in a horse and carriage while courting in 1909 or 1910. They were married on September 21, 1910. Charles Austin and his brothers received a horse and carriage at graduation from eighth grade, but they were not allowed to continue their schooling. Azo stamp box on verso of postcard.
Date Created: 1910
PID: grinnell:12216

Title: Church of Christ Delegates in Spaulding Automobile
Description: Delegates from the Church of Christ in Grinnell, Iowa, pose in a Spaulding automobile on their way to a state convention in Ottumwa, Iowa. The automobile is a Spaulding "30." Back of photo has name: Mrs. Bell Barnes. Drake Community Library (Grinnell, Iowa) Archives. Miscellaneous photographs. Collection #17-4, Spaulding Company.
Date Created: 1910
PID: grinnell:11836

Title: Hitching Rack in Grinnell
Description: Postcard view of horses lined up at a hitching rack on Fourth Avenue on the south side of Central Park in Grinnell, Iowa. Grinnell High School visible in the background. Azo stamp box on verso. Drake Community Library (Grinnell, Iowa) Archives. McNally photographs. Collection #1, Series #1-1.
Date Created: 1910
PID: grinnell:6307

Title: Interior of the Grinnell Aeroplane Company
Description: Probably the interior of the Grinnell Aeroplane Company in Grinnell, Iowa. Men are gathered around a steering mechanism. Note propellers propped against the wall on the right. The Grinnell Aeroplane Company was founded by Billy Robinson. Photo by Child. Drake Community Library (Grinnell, Iowa) Archives. Miscellaneous photographs. Collection #17-6, People.
Date Created: 1910
PID: grinnell:12476

Title: Spaulding "30" Touring Car
Description: Photograph of a Spaulding touring car manufactured in Grinnell, Iowa. Price of the car is listed as $1550 with a sliding gear, and $1500 with a planetary gear. Neither price includes the top. Drake Community Library (Grinnell, Iowa) Archives. Miscellaneous photographs. Collection #17-4, Spaulding Company.
Date Created: 1910
PID: grinnell:11833

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 Manufacturing Company Office
Description: Photograph of the administrative offices of the Spaulding Manufacturing Company on the corner of 4th Avenue and Spring Street in Grinnell, Iowa. Drake Community Library (Grinnell, Iowa) Archives. Miscellaneous photographs. Collection #17-4, Spaulding Company.
Date Created: 1910
PID: grinnell:11831