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Title: Chapel, Grinnell, Iowa 931
Description: Postcard view of Herrick Chapel on the Grinnell College campus in Grinnell, Iowa. Postcard published by C.U. Williams Photoette, Bloomington, Illinois. Drake Community Library (Grinnell, Iowa) Archives. McNally photographs. Collection #1, Series #1-1.
Date Created: 1920
PID: grinnell:6336

Title: Chester Center Store
Description: Photograph of Chester Center Store in Chester Township, Iowa, which was destroyed by fire in 1939. Pictured are H. G. Sutton, Beck Sutton, Mildred Sutton, and Aline Lidtka Petersen. Photograph was taken in the late 1920s
Date Created: 1920
PID: grinnell:3370

Title: Chicago Hall, Grinnell, Ia. -- 578
Description: Postcard view of Chicago Hall at Grinnell College in Grinnell, Iowa. Drake Community Library (Grinnell, Iowa) Archives. McNally photographs. Collection #1, Series #1-1.
Date Created: 1920
PID: grinnell:6328

Title: Magoun Hall, Chicago and Blair Halls, Grinnell, Iowa, Grinnell College
Description: Looking northeast. Number 982.
Date Created: 1920
PID: grinnell:13339

Title: Grinnell College, Steiner Hall, Christian Associations Building, Iowa College, [Grinnell, Iowa]
Description: Looking northeast. Steiner Hall (Christian Associations Building) was constructed in 1906, costing approximately $10,000. Originally intended to house the Y.M.C.A. and Y.W.C.A. programs, it later housed offices, seminar rooms and classrooms.
Date Created: 1920
PID: grinnell:13562

Title: Grinnell College, Steiner Hall, Christian Associations Building, Iowa College, [Grinnell, Iowa]
Description: Looking east. Steiner Hall (Associations Building) was constructed in 1906, costing approximately $10,000. Originally intended to house the Y.M.C.A. and Y.W.C.A. programs, it later housed offices, seminar rooms and classrooms.
Date Created: 1920
PID: grinnell:13563

Title: City Hall and fire station, Grinnell, Iowa
Description: Looking south from Commercial Street at fire engine and firemen. Bell tower on building. The fire station served from 1889 to 1957, when a new station was built on Fourth Avenue.
Date Created: 1920
PID: grinnell:14522

Title: City Park, Grinnell, Ia. 753, City Park, Grinnell, Iowa 753
Description: View from the center of Central Park in Grinnell, Iowa, looking northwest towards the intersection of Broad Street and Fourth Avenue. The Congregational Church and Merchants' National Bank are visible at the intersection. Horses and buggies are parked to the north of the park; automobiles are parked along Broad Street. Kruxo postcard. Drake Community Library (Grinnell, Iowa) Archives. Miscellaneous photographs. Collection #17-5, Views of Grinnell.
Date Created: 1920
PID: grinnell:12372

Title: City Water Tower
Description: Photograph of the Grinnell, Iowa, city water tower at 722 Main Street in the 1920s. The tower has ruptured and cascades of ice have formed from the bottom of the tower to the ground. Photo by Cornelia Clarke. Drake Community Library (Grinnell, Iowa) Archives. Cornelia Clarke Collection. Collection #237.
Date Created: 1920
PID: grinnell:11839

Title: Civil War Veterans on the Courthouse Lawn
Description: Postcard photo of three Grand Army of the Republic members from Brooklyn, Iowa, relaxing on the grounds of the Poweshiek County Courthouse in Montezuma, Iowa, possibly at some sort of celebration. Left to right: Joe Karr, who drove the veterans to Montezuma; Hiram Frease, standing and holding the flag; Frank Dayton and Capt. George Phillips, both seated. Joe Karr was a dry goods merchant in Brooklyn, Iowa. The benches in front of the Karr store were favored places for Civil War veterans to sit and talk. Joe Karr, born in 1865, was not a Civil War veteran himself, although he may have been a GAR member through a relative.
Date Created: 1920
PID: grinnell:11767