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Title: 1018, 1020 and 1024 Fifth Avenue, 1018, 1020 and 1024 5th Avenue
Description: Two views of 1018, 1020 and 1024 Fifth Avenue in Grinnell, Iowa. 1018 is on the right, 1020 in the middle, and 1024 on the left. These houses which were on the south side of Fifth Avenue between Park and State Streets were razed for the construction of Drake Community Library in 2009. These photos were probably taken in the 1990s. Drake Community Library (Grinnell, Iowa) Archives. Miscellaneous photographs. Collection #17-2, Grinnell Buildings.
Date Created: 1990
PID: grinnell:11769

Title: 1105 Park Street
Description: 1105 Park Street on the northwest corner of Sixth Avenue and Park Street in Grinnell, Iowa. This house was torn down in order to build the Grinnell College John Chrystal Center which was completed in 2002.
Date Created: 1960
PID: grinnell:27186

Title: 1127 Broad Street
Description: Winter postcard view of 1127 Broad Street in Grinnell, Iowa. This was the home of Walter Hammond and Hattie Child Hammond. The house was built in 1900 from George F. Barber's design #128, published in The Cottage Souvenir #2, revised and enlarged, 1892. A fire destroyed the house on January 18, 2013. Azo stamp box on verso with four triangles pointing up.
Date Created: 1904
PID: grinnell:20421

Title: 1405 Broad Street
Description: 1405 Broad Street on the northwest corner of 9th Avenue and Broad Street in Grinnell, Iowa, August 1961.
Date Created: 1961
PID: grinnell:27187

Title: 1407 Sixth Avenue, Under the Elms
Description: View of 1407 Sixth Avenue in Grinnell, Iowa. Verso of photo reads: "Under the elms -- March 15, 1901 -- 1407 Sixth Ave., Grinnell." Additional notes on verso read: "Hobart carload lumber from Chicago. 1882 first coat of paint night before cyclone. Chicken feathers driven into wood. House had to be scraped. Used as hospital for injured. Dead bodies taken to house." The Grinnell Cyclone was on June 17, 1882. Drake Community Library (Grinnell, Iowa) Archives. Miscellaneous photographs. Collection #17-5, Views of Grinnell.
Date Created: 1901
PID: grinnell:12274

Title: 1510 East Street
Description: Three views of 1510 East Street in Grinnell, Iowa, taken sometime in the 1960s. 1510 East Street was the home of Henry and Merta Matlack and their five children. It was demolished in the late 1990s or early 2000s. Drake Community Library (Grinnell, Iowa) Archives. Miscellaneous photographs. Collection #85, Matlack/ Kiesel/ Wieman.
Date Created: 1960
PID: grinnell:18903

Title: 15127 Newcomer Avenue, Newburg, Iowa
Description: Home at 15127 Newcomer Avenue in Newburg, Iowa, (mailing address is Grinnell, Iowa) built by Charles Austin Palmer.
Date Created: 2008
PID: grinnell:12023

Title: 1907 Ford Model S Automobile
Description: Photograph of a 1907 Ford Model S car which belonged to Bill Lidtka who lived near Grinnell, Iowa. Photograph has identification "Uncle Bill Lidtka's car". The car is in front of a farm house.
Date Created: 1907
PID: grinnell:3379

Title: 4-H Installation of Officers
Description: Jackson Busy Bees 4-H installs officers in 1960. From left to right: Mary Ahrens, Poweshiek County 4-H president; Pat Breniman, Busy Bees president; Joyce Ketels, vice-president; Barbara Veverka, secretary; Linda Ferguson, treasurer; Mary Sanders, reporter; Kathleen Little, historian.
Date Created: 1960
PID: grinnell:27242

Title: 411 First Avenue
Description: Photograph of 411 First Avenue in Grinnell, Iowa, in the early 1960s. This house was the home of the Renfrow family for many years.
Date Created: 1960
PID: grinnell:12185