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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 Production Line
Description: Photo of the production line of the Spaulding automobile at the Spaulding Manufacturing Company in Grinnell, Iowa. The man in the foreground with his hand on the brake is Ernest B. Jones of Grinnell, Iowa. Note the double rear springs similar to buggy springs. This early model has right-hand drive; later models had left-hand drive. The Spaulding automobile was produced from 1909 to 1916. Drake Community Library (Grinnell, Iowa) Archives. McNally photographs. Collection #1, Series #1-2.
Date Created: 1910
PID: grinnell:6417

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: St. Congregational Church, Located on Corner of Broad St. & 4th Ave., Grinnell, Iowa, Congregational Church, Located on Corner of Broad Street and 4th Avenue, Grinnell, Iowa
Description: Color postcard view of the Congregational Church on the corner of 4th Avenue and Broad Street in Grinnell, Iowa. Postcard is addressed to M.A. Batcher, Eddyville, Iowa, and postmarked April 27, 1912, in Grinnell, Iowa. Postcard published by Jno. T. Faber Publisher, Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Drake Community Library (Grinnell, Iowa) Archives. Miscellaneous photographs. Collection #17-2, Grinnell Buildings.
Date Created: 1912
PID: grinnell:11316

Title: St. Frances [i.e., Francis] Hospital, Grinnell, Ia. -- 9901, St. Francis Hospital, Grinnell, Iowa -- 9901
Description: Postcard view of St. Francis Hospital in Grinnell, Iowa, which was located at 4th Avenue and Penrose. Postcard published by Co-Mo Foto, Co., Watertown, Wisconsin. Drake Community Library (Grinnell, Iowa) Archives. Miscellaneous photographs. Collection #17-2, Grinnell Buildings.
Date Created: 1920
PID: grinnell:6529

Title: St. Mary's Catholic Church
Description: Color view of St. Mary's Catholic Church in Grinnell, Iowa, in the 1990s. Drake Community Library (Grinnell, Iowa) Archives. Miscellaneous photographs. Collection #17-2, Grinnell Buildings.
Date Created: 1990
PID: grinnell:11776

Title: Stagecoach, Grinnell Centennial Parade
Description: A stagecoach drawn by four horses participates in the Grinnell Centennial parade. The house at 817 Seventh Avenue is visible in the background. Sign on stagecoach says Progress Grinnell, Broadway Queen and Olson Furn. Queen and Olson Furniture was located at 913 Broad Street. Drake Community Library (Grinnell, Iowa) Archives. Miscellaneous photographs. Collection #17, Box #4.
Date Created: 1954
PID: grinnell:28727

Title: Stained Glass Window Over Front Door of Merchants' National Bank
Description: A view from the interior, of the stained glass window situated above the front entrance of Merchants' National Bank in Grinnell, Iowa, with a clock right below. The bank was designed by Louis Sullivan and built in 1914; it is nicknamed the Jewel Box Bank. Drake Community Library (Grinnell, Iowa) Archives. Imagine Grinnell Slides, p.5, slide 10.
Date Created: 1996
PID: grinnell:20316