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Title: 808 4th Avenue
Description: Photograph of the interior of an office at 808 Fourth Avenue in Grinnell, Iowa. Two men are in the picture, one is sitting at a desk covered with papers, bottles of ink and date stamps. The other man sits opposite in a chair with a pair of crutches nearby. Horses and buggies are faintly visible outside the window. Drake Community Library (Grinnell, Iowa) Archives. Miscellaneous photographs. Collection #17-6, People.
PID: grinnell:13005

Title: 904 High Street
Description: Photograph of the frame house at 904 High Street, built in 1894 for Charles R. Morse. When Morse tired of his house at 531 Park Street, he moved uptown and built this house. A walk-through description of the house is given in the Grinnell Herald-Register articles, Requiem and Eulogy, published on September 15, 1988. Morse died in this house in 1905. Later owners of the property have been Ms. Hammond (librarian at Grinnell College), Sharp Lannom II, and Jan and Jacque Anderson.
PID: grinnell:3260

Title: 917 Reed Street
Description: The house at 917 Reed was built in 1883 by Charles F. Craver, owner of Craver & Steele which manufactured a harvesting machine known as a header. Craver built this residence when his original home at 7th and Broad was destroyed by the 1882 cyclone. He lived there until 1889 when he moved with his business to Harvey, Illinois. The second owner of the house was L. G. Pierce. Pierce sold the house to the community for a site for the hospital. The house was demolished in 1917. Alternate address given for the property is 819 Reed.
PID: grinnell:3281

Title: Academy and Catholic Church, Charles City, Iowa
Description: Three story brick and stone church building (1203 Clark Street, Charles City, Floyd County, Iowa) in the background with three story brick and stone school building in foreground. 1910 postmark.
PID: grinnell:14096

Title: Administration Building, State Reformatory, Anamosa, Iowa
Description: Looking southwest at the Administration Building, built in Romanesque, Gothic Revival. The institution was established in 1872. It is Iowa's largest prison. Listed in the National Register of Historic Places. 1910 postmark.
PID: grinnell:13489

Title: Aerial Truck, Davenport Fire Department, Davenport, Iowa
Description: View of a turn of the century fire truck pulled by 3 horses. The fire service in Davenport began in 1858 with the Hawkeye Volunteer Fire Company. The chief of this volunteer company was Chief Littler, a Civil War veteran who had one arm. In 1882, the City of Davenport established a professional, paid, fire department. They also used volunteers for three years. In 1885 the department became 100% paid professional fire fighters. The first chief of this all paid department was Chief Marsh Noel. By 1905 the City of Davenport could boast of seven pumper companies and two truck companies providing protection. 1910 postmark. Number 136.
PID: grinnell:16959

Title: Ahrens Family about 1910
Description: Some of the family of Frederick and Henrietta Ahrens taken at their home at Sixth Avenue and Penrose in Grinnell, Iowa, about 1910. Back row: Henry Ahrens, William Ahrens holding Alice Ahrens Edgington, Frank Ahrens, Fred Schmidt (?), Will Geiger. Middle row: Carolyn "Carrie" Schultz Ahrens holding Wesley, Henrietta Ahrens, Ella Zahrt Ahrens holding Sheldon, Annie Kuder holding an unidentified child, Mary Myers Ahrens holding Stanley, Dora Ahrens Geiger, Minnie Ahrens, Ella Ahrens McMillan, Mrs. Fred Schmidt(?). Front row: Inez Ahrens Sanders is one of the children in the front row. All other children are unidentified.
PID: grinnell:12913

Title: Alta Opera House, Alta, Iowa
Description: Looking west at the opera house was a three-story brick veneer building built in 1907 and located on the Clarkson block.
PID: grinnell:14273

Title: Alta Opera House, Alta, Iowa
Description: Looking northwest at the opera house (pictured on the left) was a three-story brick veneer building built in 1907 and located on the Clarkson block. Title supplied by cataloger.
PID: grinnell:14274