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Title: Canning factory, Water works, Spaulding Manufacturing Co., Opera house, Union depot, Be a Live One and Come to Grinnell, Iowa
Description: Montage of six Grinnell, Iowa commercial buildings: Canning factory, water works, Spaulding Manufacturing Co., Opera House, Union Depot and Glove Factory. Number 97.
Date Created: 1922
PID: grinnell:13300

Title: U.S. Club, Grinnell from Robinson's monoplane, Grinnell, Iowa
Description: Looking south at Main Street, Broad Street, Spring Street and West Street. 1914 postmark. W.C. "Billy" Robinson was an early aviator who set an American nonstop distance flight record in 1914. He became the second officially appointed air mail carrier in the U.S. He built his own airplane & invented a rotary airplane engine. Robinson was killed in 1916 at age 31 in a plane crash while attempting to set an altitude record.
Date Created: 1920
PID: grinnell:13663

Title: Methodist [Church], Congregational Church, Baptist Church, Church of Christ, United Presbyterian Church, Welcome to our churches, Grinnell, Iowa
Description: Montage of six Grinnell, Iowa churches: Methodist, Baptist, Church of Christ, United Presbyterian and the Grinnell College chapel. Number 98. 1915 postmark.
Date Created: 1915
PID: grinnell:13408