Looking southwest at the second Pottawattamie County Courthouse on South Pearl Street. The building was built in 1888 in Beaux Arts-style. It was later declared unsafe and was replaced with a Modernist structure in 1977. 1907 postmark. Number A5377.
Title
Court house, Council Bluffs, Iowa
Alternative Title
Pottawattamie County Court House
Alternative Title
Pottawattamie County Courthouse
supporting host
Grinnell College Libraries Special Collections
Index Date
1907
Publisher
Omaha News Company (Omaha, Neb.)
Publisher
ANC (New York, N.Y.)
Type of Resource
still image
Genre
postcard
Physical Extent
1 postcard : color ; 9 x 14 cm.
Medium
Polychrome print, undivided back. Made in Germany.
Provenance
Purchase or donation
reproduction
Scanned with HP Scanjet 4670 at 600 ppi. Archival master image available in tiff format.
citation/reference
Pottawattamie County Courthouse (http://www.iowacourtsonline.org/)
Date Issued
1907?
Language
English
Topic
Pottawattamie County Courthouse
Topic
Council Bluffs (Iowa)
Topic
Government facilities
Topic
Court houses
Topic
Courthouses
Topic
Pottawattamie County (Iowa)
Cartographic
41.258040, -95.850919
Classification
MS 108, Box 2, ihpc_councia0020
Related Item
Iowa Historical Postcard Collection (IHPC)
Related Item
Grinnell College. Special Collections and Archives
Related Item
Digital Grinnell
Identifier (local)
ihpc_councia0020
Access Condition
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