Search results | Digital Grinnell

Title: Spaulding Official Exposition Car
Description: Postcard with an image of the Spaulding Exposition Car. Legend reads: " Spaulding San Diego distributor and Official Panama Exposition car logging and filming Ocean to Ocean Highway from San Diego, California, to New York." Drake Community Library (Grinnell, Iowa) Archives. Miscellaneous photographs. Collection #17-4, Spaulding Company.
Date Created: 1913
PID: grinnell:11830

Title: Spaulding Plant
Description: Postcard of the Spaulding Manufacturing Plant, in Grinnell, Iowa. Postcard has caption: Grinnell, IA -- 73--. Drake Community Library (Grinnell, Iowa) Archives. McNally photographs. Collection #1, Series #1-3.
Date Created: 1900
PID: grinnell:6169

Title: Spaulding Racer
Description: Black and white photograph of the Spaulding Racer, a lightweight two-seat open-top car built on a stock chassis that broke the records for fastest time driving across Iowa and for highest speed on a dirt road during the 1913 River-to-River race. A sign on the car reads "THIS "SPAULDING" STOCK CHASSIS HOLDS THE CROSS STATE RECORD AND WORLD'S HIGH SPEED DIRT ROAD RECORD 337.8 MILES IN 8 HRS.14 MIN"
Date Created: 1913
PID: grinnell:26626

Title: Spaulding Stock Chassis Making World's Record
Description: Postcard view of Hal Wells driving the Spaulding racer, a lightweight two-passenger wooden body on a stock chassis, during the October 1913 River to River Road race. This view shows Wells driving west in the 500 block of 4th Avenue, in Grinnell, Iowa, during the race in which a world's dirt-road speed record was set. Azo stamp box on verso. Drake Community Library (Grinnell, Iowa) Archives. McNally photographs. Collection #1, Series #1-1.
Date Created: 1913
PID: grinnell:6297

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