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Title: Street scene, Farnhamville, Iowa
Description: Looking northwest at various businesses from Foster Street down Garfield Avenue. Farnhamville was platted in 1881 under the name Farnham, named in honor of R. E. Farnham, a railroad official. Postal authorities refused to accept the name Farnham, so town was renamed Farnhamville when the post office opened later in 1881.Farnhamville was incorporated as a city in 1892. 1912 postmark.
Date Created: 1912
PID: grinnell:16772

Title: Street scene, Gilman, Iowa, Farmer's State Bank
Description: Looking at a dirt street in downtown Gilman, Iowa, showing three automobiles parked alongside the automobile garage. Farmer's State Bank is the one-story brick building on the corner. Number 6514.
Date Created: 1915
PID: grinnell:13867

Title: Tenth Street looking east, Alton, Iowa, Joseph Hyink and Son, J.W. Stronks General Store, 10th Street looking east
Description: Looking east on Tenth Street at Stronks General Store on the left and Joseph Hyink and Son on the right. It appears that the man with the wagon on the right is carrying a load of wooden chairs. 1910 postmark. Number 1296.
Date Created: 1910
PID: grinnell:13497

Title: View of Chestnut St., Atlantic, Iowa, Hansen & Lowe, Chestnut Street
Description: Looking at the business district in Atlantic, Iowa. Hansen & Lowe is printed on the side of the building on the left. Number 6934.
Date Created: 1905
PID: grinnell:13479

Title: Walnut Street at night, Des Moines, Iowa, Davidsons, Lyric Theater, Mandelbaums
Description: Evening view of Walnut Street looking west at Davidsons on the left and the Lyric Theater and Mandelbaum's on the right. 1911 postmark.
Date Created: 1910
PID: grinnell:18902

Title: Walnut Street at night, Des Moines, Iowa, Lyric Theater, Mandelbaums
Description: Evening view of Walnut Street looking west at the Lyric Theater and Mandelbaum's on the right. 1910 postmark.
Date Created: 1911
PID: grinnell:18901

Title: Walnut Street looking north, Colfax, Iowa, The Boss Meat Market
Description: Looking north on Walnut Street with The Boss Meat Market and dentist office on the left and a sanitarium down the street on the right. At its peak, Colfax had a total of nine hotels and sanitariums.
Date Created: 1931
PID: grinnell:19510

Title: Walnut Street looking south, Colfax [Springs], Iowa, Walnut Street looking south, Colfax, Iowa
Description: Looking south on Walnut Street at a residential area in Colfax, Iowa.
Date Created: 1911
PID: grinnell:14423

Title: Walnut Street, Columbus Junction, Iowa, Commercial House, Commercial Hotel
Description: Looking west on the corner of Walnut and Main Streets you will see a café and telephone office on the left and the Commercial Hotel/Commercial House and a Pontiac service station on the right. Columbus Junction began as Clifton and was renamed in 1870. Number M-495.
Date Created: 1945
PID: grinnell:16258

Title: Walnut Street, looking west from Fourth Street, by Night, Des Moines, Iowa
Description: Evening view of Walnut Street looking west at the Kirkwood Hotel and Davidsons on the left and Willmers, the Lyric Theater, Johnsons, and Mandelbaum's on the right. Number R-21031.
Date Created: 1910
PID: grinnell:16874