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Title: Adams Street, East from Summit Hotel, Creston, Iowa, Summit House
Description: One of the first hotels in Creston, Iowa, the Summit Hotel, was built in 1880 by a stock company composed of Swan & Becker and Colonel Beckwith, among others, and was destroyed by fire in 1896. The hotel owners rebuilt on the same site later that year, but shortly before midnight on December 1916 another fire destroyed the building. The loss was estimated at $200,000 and defective electrical wiring was believed to have caused the fire. Creston centennial card, 1869-1969.
Date Created: 1914
PID: grinnell:16226

Title: Main Street east from Ford, Anamosa, Iowa, Stone, E.S., Jeweler, Hartman Buggies & Wagons
Description: Looking east from S. Ford Street at various stores and shops including a tailor shop, jewelry shop, drugstore and more. 1914 postmark. Number 10.
Date Created: 1914
PID: grinnell:13481

Title: Main Street, Belle Plaine, Iowa, Butzloff Hardware Store, Boyson Café
Description: Looking east on Main Street in Belle Plaine, Iowa with the Butzloff Hardware Store and Boyson Café on the left as well as a drug store and dentist office. The left side of the street shows another drug store and another dentist. 1914 postmark. Number 52.
Date Created: 1914
PID: grinnell:14185

Title: Main Street, Collins, Iowa, The Gazette
Description: Looking south on Main Street with a sign for The Gazette in the left background. The Collins Gazette was a weekly publication from 1906-1958. 1914 postmark.
Date Created: 1914
PID: grinnell:16885

Title: Central Park, Monroe Hotel, Park Street, Grinnell, Iowa
Description: Looking north from Park Street with Central Park and Monroe Hotel in foreground. 1914 postmark. Number 126.
Date Created: 1914
PID: grinnell:13528

Title: Robinson, Billy, Photo taken by [Billy] Robinson from his 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: 1914
PID: grinnell:14512

Title: View south west from court house, Newton, Iowa
Description: Looking southwest from the court house at the Jasper County Savings Bank with water tower in background. 1914 postmark. Number 5.
Date Created: 1914
PID: grinnell:14313