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Title
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You Always Get the Glad Hand from Montezuma, Ia.
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Description
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Post card with yellow felt hand appliqued to the surface. Hand is imprinted with the words, "You Always Get the Glad Hand from Montezuma, Ia." Postcard is addressed to Vera Anderson in Grinnell, Ia., but there is no postmark.
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Date Created
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1920
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PID
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grinnell:6249
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![[Billy] Robinson flying, Grinnell, Iowa](/islandora/object/grinnell%3A14510/datastream/TN/view)
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Title
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[Billy] Robinson flying, Grinnell, Iowa
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Description
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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.
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Date Created
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1920
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PID
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grinnell:14510
