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Title: Rexall Float
Description: Postcard view of a parade float, "The Rexall Line to Health," sponsored by R.E. Bates Drug Store, Grinnell, Iowa. The float is a decorated street car. Azo stamp box on verso. Photograph by Child. Drake Community Library (Grinnell, Iowa) Archives. Miscellaneous photographs. Collection #17-5, Views of Grinnell.
Date Created: 1915
PID: grinnell:12440

Title: Rexall Float
Description: Postcard view of a parade float, "The Rexall Line to Health," sponsored by R.E. Bates Drug Store, Grinnell, Iowa. Drake Community Library (Grinnell, Iowa) Archives. McNally photographs. Collection #1, Series #1-1.
Date Created: 1920
PID: grinnell:6349

Title: Rexall Float in Grinnell Parade
Description: Postcard view of a parade in Grinnell, Iowa. The parade is progressing south on Broad Street between 5th and 4th Avenues. Stewart Library is in the background. The photograph was taken before the post office was built in 1916. A Rexall drug store float is visible. Early automobiles and horse and carriages are parked along the route. Azo stamp box on verso. Photograph by Child. Drake Community Library (Grinnell, Iowa) Archives. Miscellaneous photographs. Collection #17-5, Views of Grinnell.
Date Created: 1915
PID: grinnell:12439

Title: Richardson Phelps Lumber Company, Grinnell Centennial Parade
Description: The Richardson-Phelps Lumber Company float in the Grinnell Centennial parade was a log cabin on the back of a truck. Additional features included a hand pump with a bucket next to it and a privy. A sign on the side of float reads, "Richardson-Phelps Lumber Co. Since 1914." Richardson-Phelps Lumber Company was located at 714 Park Street. Drake Community Library (Grinnell, Iowa) Archives. Miscellaneous Photographs. Collection #17, Box #4.
Date Created: 1954
PID: grinnell:28736

Title: Richland #1
Description: Photograph of Richland School #1, Jasper County, Iowa. For more information see Grinnell Area Rural Schools. Drake Community Library Archives, Collection #24.
Date Created: 1958
PID: grinnell:6092

Title: Richland #2
Description: Photograph of Richland School #2, Jasper County, Iowa. For more information see Grinnell Area Rural Schools. Drake Community Library Archives, Collection #24.
Date Created: 1958
PID: grinnell:6093

Title: Ridiculous Days in Grinnell
Description: Ruth Ann Clayton-Davis worked at Gibson's in Grinnell in the late 1960s to early 1970s during the summers and college breaks. She is wearing a Ridiculous Days' sales apron for Gibson's. The photo was taken on 5th Avenue looking east with a sign for McNeal's Television and Radio and the Catholic church visible in the background.
Date Created: 1968
PID: grinnell:27179

Title: Ritter Maytag & Appliance Co. Car in 1949 Grinnell Day Parade
Description: A young boy drives a small race car in red and white with blue pompoms and the Ritter Maytag & Appliance Co. sign overhead in the 1949 Grinnell Day Parade in Grinnell, Iowa. The Congregational Church, also known as the Old Stone Church, is visible in the background. Drake Community Library (Grinnell, Iowa) Archives. Chamber of Commerce Slides, p.3, slide 3.
Date Created: 1949
PID: grinnell:19262

Title: Roasting Hot Dogs
Description: Lowell Fisher, Joanne Bunge, and Charles Cook gather around a grill in Merrill Park in Grinnell, Iowa, to roast hot dogs. From Joanne M. Bunge's Grinnell College student scrapbook, 1952-1956.
Date Created: 1953
PID: grinnell:12945

Title: Robinson Landing
Description: Postcard view of Billy Robinson landing his airplane in a field near Grinnell, Iowa. Photo by Child. Azo stamp box on verso. Drake Community Library (Grinnell, Iowa) Archives. McNally photographs. Collection #1, Series #1-1.
Date Created: 1915
PID: grinnell:6293