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Title: Fire of 1889
Description: Photograph of damage to the business district caused by the fire of 1889. The view is northeast across the railroad to the Congregational Church; Central Park is on the right. As a result of the fire, the City Council set up a fire zone and forbade the use of wooden awnings. The width of Commercial Street, which varied, also was made uniform.
Date Created: 1889
PID: grinnell:3317

Title: Fire of 1891, Broad Street ruins
Description: Views of the ruins left by the Fire of 1891.
Date Created: 1891
PID: grinnell:3301

Title: First Congregational Church, Northeast corner of Fourth Avenue and Broad Street, Old Stone Church, United Church of Christ
Description: The First Congregational Church, known as the Old Stone Church, was built in 1877 on the site of J. B. Grinnell's original Congregational Church. It was demolished in 1951.
Date Created: 1923
PID: grinnell:3287

Title: First Methodist Church, Fifth Avenue and Park Street
Description: Photograph of the First Methodist Church at Fifth Avenue and Park Street. The church was later moved to 616 Fourth Avenue, where it was used as an armory for about a year before it was destroyed by fire in 1896.
Date Created: 1895
PID: grinnell:3316

Title: Fourth Avenue
Description: Photographs of commercial buildings on the north side of Fourth Avenue.
Date Created: 1900
PID: grinnell:3299

Title: Geoff Peak Interview
Description: This is an oral history interview of Geoff Peak, a prominent teacher in Poweshiek County school systems and graduate of Grinnell College. The interview, conducted by Judy Hunter, recalls many of Geoff's memories from his days in a one-room schoolhouse and as a middle school, high school, and alternative program instructor.
Date Created: 2014
PID: grinnell:23040

Title: George W. Cook and Electa C. Cook to Sarah E. Cook, April 3, 1859
Description: Electa thanks Sarah for the dress pattern, and briefly discusses their family. George writes about the District Court, the weather, buying a farm in Massachusetts, and the injury of an acquaintance.
Date Created: 1859
PID: grinnell:12369

Title: George W. Cook and Electa C. Cook to Sarah E. Cook, February 8, 1858
Description: Electa writes of how she misses Sarah and remembers good times together. George writes of their dog, Caper, and mentions crops.
Date Created: 1858
PID: grinnell:11881

Title: George W. Cook and Electa C. Cook to Sarah E. Cook, July 1, 1857; July 4, 1857
Description: Letters six and seven are written on the same piece of paper. Letter six is from Electa C. Cook and letter seven is from George W. Cook. Both are to Sarah E. Cook.
Date Created: 1857
PID: grinnell:11845

Title: George W. Cook and Electa C. Cook to Sarah E. Cook, March 26, 1859
Description: George writes to Sarah that he has little to write, and reports that he and many others in town have been sick. The weather has been poor. He gives a report of the progress on the building of the railroad. Electa asks to be sent [clothes] patterns.
Date Created: 1859
PID: grinnell:12361

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