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Title: Busy day, Cumberland, Iowa
Description: Looking south on a bustling Main Street at a millinery shop and variety store on the left and the bank on the right with a church steeple in the background. 1911 postmark.
Date Created: 1911
PID: grinnell:16218

Title: Children riding cows on street, Exira, Iowa
Description: Children riding cows on street with train station master looking on.
Date Created: 1907
PID: grinnell:15899

Title: East Main Street, Dunlap, Iowa, Kavanagh Drugstore, Lehan Drugstore
Description: Looking west on Main Street in Dunlap, Iowa, with a tire service shop, a restaurant and barbershop on the left, a drugstore and soda fountain on the right, and a garage in the background. Dunlap, Iowa was named after a railway official, George L. Dunlap. 1940 postmark.
PID: grinnell:16025

Title: East side of Main Street, Danbury, Iowa, Commercial House, Commercial Hotel
Description: Looking northeast on Main Street with a dentist office, a restaurant and the Commerical House from foreground to background. 1909 postmark. Number 16.
Date Created: 1909
PID: grinnell:16210

Title: Elm Street, Cresco, Iowa, O'Malley, F.
Description: Looking northwest on Elm Street with a view of the P.F. O'Malley building on the left with O'Malley's Department Store. 1911 postmark.
Date Created: 1911
PID: grinnell:16973

Title: Humboldt M.W.A. Team, Clarion, Iowa, Modern Woodmen of America
Description: A "rainbow parade" on Main Street with a Modern Woodmen Forester drill team marching in formation. "Humboldt M.W.A. team at Clarion." --t.p. Modern Woodmen of America was founded by Joseph Cullen Root on January 5, 1883, in Lyons, Iowa. He wanted to create an organization that would protect families following the death of a breadwinner. The drill teams became nationally known for events held from 1890 to the late 1930s, and the Foresters were even honored by Herbert Hoover at the White House. Because each group was differentiated by a different style and color of the uniform, their demonstrations were referred to as "Rainbow Parades." The Rainbow Parades were hosted by cities across the United States and included 10,000 units of Foresters, with more than 160,000 men participating. 1906 postmark.
Date Created: 1906
PID: grinnell:14069

Title: Locust Street looking west, Des Moines, Iowa, United Federal Savings and Loan, Hotel Savery, Equitable Life Building
Description: On verso: "Locust Street, Des Moines, Iowa, looking west. Heart of business center. Right--United Federal Savings and Loan, and modern Hotel Savery. Left--Ultra modern elevator parking garage, and Equitable Tower in background." Number 65683. Series DM-8.
Date Created: 1955
PID: grinnell:16144

Title: Looking east on Third Street, Davenport, Iowa, Columbia Theatre, Capitol Theatre, J.M. Lenz Photography Studio
Description: View of West Third Street actually looking west at the Columbia and Capitol Theatres on the left and the J.M. Lenz Photography Studio on the right. Verso says: Some of the largest office buildings and theatres are located on this thoroughfare. On the left is the Kahl Building and on the right the American Bank Building. Number 1A1811.
Date Created: 1931
PID: grinnell:16190

Title: Looking north on Main Street, Cushing, Iowa
Description: Looking north on Main Street with C.F. Quinn & Son drug store and garage/livery stable on the left and the Farmers Savings Bank on the right. The Farmers Savings Bank which was originally founded in Beaman, Iowa, was later organized under a state charter in 1908. 1915 postmark. Number 8. Title supplied by cataloger.
Date Created: 1915
PID: grinnell:16966

Title: Main Street Looking East, Dallas Center, Iowa, Brenton, William H., Dallas Center Fire Department, Walnut Street, Brenton Brothers Bank, Loring, J.O.
Description: Looking east on Main Street (now Walnut Street) with the firehouse on the right foreground with bell tower and the Brenton-Richmond Building (built 1901) and the J.O. Loring, Brenton Brothers building (built 1899). In 1881, the first Brenton Bank was organized in Dallas Center by William H. Brenton, a local farmer. Upon the death of their father in 1893, Charles and Clyde Brenton formed a team of Brenton Brothers. On the left is the McLean Building Number 1.
Date Created: 1903
PID: grinnell:16964