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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

Title: York Lumber, Clark Lumber Company, Grinnell, Iowa
Description: Truck pulling wagon full of lumber in from of warehouse. Sign says "We use lumber from the Clark Lumber Co." Verso says: "The 600 block of Broad, I remember this as York Lumber, J.B. Grinnell's big home was to the right after being moved from its location East of Central Park. All this was cleared for Mayflower homes in the 1980s". Title supplied by cataloger.
Date Created: 1920
PID: grinnell:13589

Title: Clark Memorial, Grinnell, Ia, Clark Memorial, Grinnell, Iowa
Description: Postcard view of the E.W. Clark Memorial fountain in Central Park in Grinnell, Iowa. The fountain, designed by Walter Burley Griffin, was built to memorialize Dr. E.W. Clark, an influential early citizen of Grinnell who made many contributions to the town. Postcard published by the Co-Mo Company, Minneapolis. Drake Community Library (Grinnell, Iowa) Archives. Miscellaneous photographs. Collection #17-5, Views of Grinnell.
Date Created: 1920
PID: grinnell:12238

Title: E.W. Clark Memorial Fountain, Central Park, Clark's Memorial Fountain, Grinnell, Iowa
Description: Looking southeast from Broad Street at fountain and park. This fountain was built in 1911 and dismantled in 1959. Named for local physician E.W. Clark.
Date Created: 1920
PID: grinnell:13441

Title: Cleland School
Description: Students at the Cleland school in rural Poweshiek County, Iowa, about 1920. The Cleland School was probably the rural school located on the northeast corner of Section 19, in Pleasant Township, about a half mile west of Ewart. The school was adjacent to the William Cleland farm Front row, from left to right: Don Cleland, Waunita Johnson, Helen Cleland, Pauline Johnson. Back row: Unidentified teacher, Lela Farley, Genevieve Johnson, Lora Cleland, Eugene McCormick, Louise Cox.
Date Created: 1920
PID: grinnell:20657

Title: Community Hospital, Grinnell, Iowa -- 9902
Description: Postcard view of Grinnell Community Hospital, which opened its doors for service on August 1, 1919. Kruxo postcard. Drake Community Library (Grinnell, Iowa) Archives. Miscellaneous photographs. Collection #17-2, Grinnell Buildings.
Date Created: 1920
PID: grinnell:6476

Title: Community Welfare Workers, Brooklyn
Description: Members of the Brooklyn CWW Club (Community Welfare Workers). The group often put on plays and entertainments and are dressed in costume here. From left to right: Clara Johnson, Elizabeth Torrance, Abby Carmichael, Mabel Brannian, Mildred Torrance, Blanche Otto, Betty Gritsch.
Date Created: 1920
PID: grinnell:27257

Title: Congregational Church, Grinnell, Ia. 292
Description: Postcard of the Congregational Church, Grinnell, Iowa, which was located on the northeast corner of Broad Street and Fourth Avenue. Stewart Library building is visible in the background.
Date Created: 1920
PID: grinnell:5939

Title: First Congregational Church, Old Stone Church, United Church of Christ, Congregational Church, Grinnell, Iowa
Description: Looking southeast on Broad Street. Often called the "Old Stone Church". Erected in the year 1877 costing $26,000 without furniture & the first church organized in Grinnell. The Rev. J.B. Grinnell was the founding pastor.
Date Created: 1920
PID: grinnell:13288