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Title: New Gas Plant, Grinnell, IA
Description: Postcard view of Peoples Light and Fuel Co., Grinnell, Iowa. Slogans on the card read: "Use the light that lights," and "Use the fuel that makes cooking fun." Verso of postcard is addressed to "J.J. Mincer, 922 Main St., City" and is postmarked September 7, 1909. The message reads, "Gas will be turned on about Sept. 15 or 20," and is signed with a stamped "Peoples Light and Fuel Co." Photograph by Child. Drake Community Library (Grinnell, Iowa) Archives. McNally photographs. Collection #1, Series #1-1.
Date Created: 1909
PID: grinnell:6272

Title: Old Stone Church
Description: The Congregational Church, also known as the Old Stone Church, built in Grinnell, Iowa, on the northeast corner of Broad Street and 4th Avenue in 1877(?) There is no steeple on the southwest tower of the church. Drake Community Library (Grinnell, Iowa) Archives. McNally photographs. Collection #1, Series #1-3.
Date Created: 1880
PID: grinnell:6157

Title: Otherside Supper Club and Pagliai's Pizza
Description: The Otherside Supper Club and Pagliai's Pizza at 816 Fifth Avenue in downtown Grinnell, Iowa. Drake Community Library (Grinnell, Iowa) Archives. Main Street Slides, p.35, slide 10.
Date Created: 1987
PID: grinnell:21651

Title: Penquite Motel
Description: Flier for the Penquite Motel, located on the corner of 6th Avenue and Penrose Street in Grinnell, Iowa, advertising rooms for a bowling tournament to be held in Grinnell from February 17 to March 24 probably in 1961. Fern and Gene Freeborn bought the Penquite Motel in 1961 and changed the name to Freeborn Motel shortly thereafter.
Date Created: 1961
PID: grinnell:12204

Title: Peoria Gateway
Description: Views of Peoria Gateway locomotives running on the various train tracks in Grinnell, Iowa. Photos taken by Joe Piersen in October 1959. Drake Community Library (Grinnell, Iowa) Archives. Miscellaneous photographs. Collection #17-5, Views of Grinnell.
Date Created: 1959
PID: grinnell:12475

Title: Quadrangll, Grinnell, IA. -- 734, Quadrangle, Grinnell, IA. -- 734
Description: Postcard view of the women's dormitories on the southeast corner of the Grinnell College campus in Grinnell, Iowa. Mears Cottage is to the left and Main Hall is to the right. Drake Community Library (Grinnell, Iowa) Archives. McNally photographs. Collection #1, Series #1-1.
Date Created: 1910
PID: grinnell:6337

Title: Story of an Old Settler
Description: Newspaper clipping of article written by Jennie Bailey (1858-1937) about her father, James Bailey (1815-1888), and mother, Cornelia Doolittle Bailey (1824-1893) and their life in early Grinnell. James Bailey was an Abolitionist and his home was a station on the Underground Railroad. Other people mentioned include Alfred Bailey, Lorenzo Bailey, Joanna Bailey Baggs, and Dennis and Clark Thompson. Topics discussed include the first saw mill in Grinnell, the Bailey House hotel, the Sugar Creek war, and prairie flora.
Date Created: 1930
PID: grinnell:5828

Title: Tarleton Family in Grinnell
Description: The Tarleton family poses outside the family home at 815 Seventh Avenue in Grinnell, Iowa, in 1958. From left to right, Gladys Schoonover Tarleton, Cynthia Palmer, Carolyn Palmer (sitting in tire), Dorothy Tarleton Palmer, and Ben Tarleton.
Date Created: 1958
PID: grinnell:12035

Title: Tyranny of Tears
Description: Theater program. Drama League of America, Grinnell Centre, reading rehearsal The Tyranny of Tears, a comedy in four acts by Haddon Chambers. High School Auditorium, Grinnell, Iowa, January 31, 1921. Cast: William H. Bridge, Cutler McGrew, Harold L. Beyer, Naomi Bordwell, Mrs. William H. Bridge, Stella Carse. Drake Community Library Archives. Early Theater Productions. Collection #100.
Date Created: 1921
PID: grinnell:6119

Title: Union, Grinnell College, Grinnell, Ia. S-204, Union, Grinnell College, Grinnell, Iowa S-204
Description: Postcard view of the student union at Grinnell College in Grinnell, Iowa. Postcard is stamped on verso: L.L. Cook Company. Drake Community Library (Grinnell, Iowa) Archives. Miscellaneous photographs. Collection #17-3, Grinnell College.
Date Created: 1950
PID: grinnell:11799