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Title: Spaulding Stock Chassis Making World's Record
Description: Hal Wells was the driver of the Spaulding racer, a lightweight two-passenger wooden body on a stock chassis, during the October 1913 River to River Road race. Postcard view shows Wells driving west on 4th Avenue, in Grinnell, Iowa, during the race in which a world's dirt-road speed record was set. The intersection pictured is the intersection of 4th Avenue and West Street. Drake Community Library (Grinnell, Iowa) Archives. McNally photographs. Collection #1, Series #1-1.
Date Created: 1913
PID: grinnell:6252

Title: Spaulding Stock Chassis Making World's Record
Description: Hal Wells was the driver of the Spaulding racer, a lightweight two-passenger wooden body on a stock chassis, during the October 1913 River to River Road race. Postcard view shows Wells driving west on 4th Avenue, in Grinnell, Iowa, during the race in which a world's dirt-road speed record was set. The intersection pictured is the intersection of 4th Avenue and West Street. Azo stamp box on verso. Drake Community Library (Grinnell, Iowa) Archives. Miscellaneous photographs. Collection #17-4, Spaulding Company.
Date Created: 1913
PID: grinnell:11829

Title: Spooks Party
Description: Photographs and newspaper articles from a 1940s (?) Halloween party in Grinnell, Iowa, organized by Mr. and Mrs. Edward Bohstedt, Mr. and Mrs. Fred Chadwick and Mr. and Mrs. Harris Vande Noord. The party was held in the Chadwick's barn and at the Vande Noord home.
Date Created: 1940
PID: grinnell:19367

Title: Sprague Family Photos
Description: Nine photographs of the Sprague family of Grinnell, Iowa. Herman H. and Ella Farley Sprague had two daughters, Ina and Lena. Ina was a teacher and was principal of Davis School in Grinnell, Iowa, for 28 years. Lena was an assistant to the city clerk of Grinnell for 30 years. Drake Community Library (Grinnell, Iowa) Archives. Miscellaneous photographs. Collection #17-6, People.
PID: grinnell:13162

Title: Spring Day Pie Eating Contest, 1946
Description: Five contestants compete in a pie-eating contest while a crowd cheers them on from behind on Spring Day.
Date Created: 1946
PID: grinnell:23458

Title: Spring Day Pie Eating Contest, 1947
Description: Two contestants in the Spring Day pie-eating contest pause with their pies as the crowd around them enjoys the spectacle. 1947.
Date Created: 1947
PID: grinnell:23459

Title: Spring Day, 1940
Description: Two students covered in mud shake hands in a mud pit after a wrestling match on Spring Day.
Date Created: 1940
PID: grinnell:23462

Title: Spring Day, 1947
Description: A woman is being helped into a mud pit on Spring Day as a gleeful crowd watches.
Date Created: 1947
PID: grinnell:23457

Title: Spring Silly Season
Description: View of college students marching along the street in Grinnell, Iowa, in support of the new liquor store. Attached newspaper clipping reads: Officially arriving in Grinnell Friday was spring silly season, which is usually most evident on the college campus. Such was the case here Friday afternoon when a group of about 100 Grinnell College students marched from the campus to the new liquor store with flags waving, car horn honking and drums beating a steady rhythm. The signs read "Eat, Drink And Be Merry For Tomorrow It May Close!!" and "Prohibition Repealed in Grinnell."
Date Created: 1960
PID: grinnell:11930