Photo prints

Photo prints

Quantity: 35 photographs

Arrangement: The photographs listed below are contained in tan photograph binder.
In 2003, copies of these photographs were framed and displayed in the Stewart Library meeting room walls. The prints are now in a box in the gray cabinet in the closet in the Jones Local History Meeting Room.

Content Dimensions: Dimensions for each photograph are listed width by height in inches.

1-3.1 Post Office employees. William Nelson, Postmaster is in the back row at right,
A.M. Burton, third from left in the front row, succeeded Nelson as postmaster.
Other employees: Charles Kimball—third from right front; Frank Barnes—third row, third from left; Cec. Meyers—second row, fourth from left; Wendell Lewis-second row; Walter Neely—second row (location on Neely and Lewis is not precise); Earl Kennedy—Third row, third from right.(9 ½ x 7 ½)
1-3.2 The Monroe Hotel (interior) , 1889 or 1899 (9x8 ½)
1-3.3 Top: Grinnell 1870s (7 ½ x 5 ¼):
1-3.4 Bottom: Church service at the old Congregational Church. (7 ½ x 5)
1-3.5 The first train arrived in Grinnell in June 1963 on the Mississippi and
Missouri (later the Rock Island Railroad.) (8 ¾ x 6 ¾)
1-3.6 Grinnell street with storefront of Rapson and Moyle, bakers and their
horsedrawn cart. (8 ¾ x 6 ¾)
1-3.7 “Duck hunting is good on Main Street” Dawson Brande with gun and
decoy, 1898. (9 x 5 ½)
1-3.8 The Old Stone Church built in 1877. (8 ¼ x 6)
1-3.9 Northwest corner of Commercial Street and Broad Street, 1907 (11 ¼ x5 ¾)
1-3.10 (Top) Ice Cream Plant and creamery at Third Avenue and West Street, ca. 1915
(6 ½ x 4 ½ )
1-3.11 (Bottom) Storefront: A. McIntosh Company. (6 ½ x 5 ¾ )
1-3.12 (Top) Bijou Theater ( one or two doors east of the Elks Building). (4 ¼ x 6)
1-3.13 W.G. Ray, publisher of the Grinnell Herald from 1890-1936. (6 ½ x 4 ¼ )
1-3.14 Billy Robinson’s airplane (8 ½ x 6 ½)
1-3.15 Broad Street and Third Avenue: Blue Line Transfer. Big shipment Grinnell
Gloves, early 1930s. (9 ½ x 6 ¼ )
1-3.16 (Top) The original Congregational Church built in 1860 (?) on the site where
Stewart Library now stands. To the right is Grinnell’s first high school. (7 x 4 ¾)
1-3.17 (Bottom) Billy Robinson, Grinnell’s pioneer aviator. (6 ¼ x 4 ¼)
1-3.18 (Top) At the east end of the 900 block of Main Street. Post Office with
barbershop in the cellar in 1919. Les Grooms, Barney Little, unknown
itinerant barber, G.B. McGuin and Glen Anderson
1-3.19 (Bottom) Spaulding Plant (7 ½ x 3)
1-3.20 (Top left) Manufacturing district (5 ½ x3 ¾)
1-3.21 (Top right) Canning factory (5 ½ x 3 ¾)
1-3.22 (Bottom left) Spaulding Plant (5 ½ x 3 ¼) Note: 20, 21, and 22 are displayed in single frame in the meeting room
1-3.23 (Bottom right) House at Sixth Avenue and Ann Street (4 ½ x 3 ½)
1-3.24 (Top left) Grinnell College campus. (4 ½ x 3 ½ )
1-3.25 (Top right) The Colonial Theater (?) just after completion. (3 3/8 x 3 3/8)
1-3.26 (Bottom left) The Old Stone Church. (3 ¼ x 3 ¼)
1-3.27 (Bottom right) Another view of the Old Stone Church. (3 ¼ x 3 ¼)
Note: # 23, 24, 25, 26 and 27 are in a single frame displayed in the meeting room)
1-3.28 Spaulding Plant with two Spaulding automobiles. (9 ¼ x 7 ¼)
1-3.29 Captioned as“ Grinnell Appreciation Days late 1940s” (Note: Likely date is 1930s) (9 ¼ x 7 ¼)
1-3.30 The Grinnell Fairgrounds, ca. 1900-1910 (9 ½ x 7 ¼)
1-3.31 Captioned as “Waiting for President Eisenhower Sept 18, 1948” (Note: Should be President Truman?) (9 ½ x 7 ¼)
1-3.32 Post Office construction, looking northwest, November 2, 1916 (9 ½ x 7 ¼)
1-3.33 Construction begins on the Post Office (8 x 7)
1-3.34 831 Main Street. The Grant Ramsey grocery store (9 x 7)
1-3.35 J.W. Norris and Sons Livery Stable on the lot which became the site of the Post Office (9 ½ x 7)