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Main Street, Ames, Iowa

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Looking east with the power plant in the background. There is a JCPenney store on the right and a hotel on the left. "The stores on Main Street are modern and attractive. Alert, well-maintained enterprises make up the business district of Ames."--t.p. verso. Number 24291N. Series 10.
Title Main Street, Ames, Iowa
Index Date 1950
Date Captured 3/7/06
Publisher E.C. Kropp Co. (Milwaukee, Wis.)
Publisher EKC
Type of Resource still image
Genre postcard
Physical Extent 1 postcard : color ; 9 x 14 cm.
Medium Linen Natural Color print, divided back.
Digital Origin digitized other analog
Digital Extent 1 file
Media Type image/jpeg
Provenance Purchase or donation
reproduction Scanned with HP Scanjet 4670 at 600 ppi. Archival master image available in tiff format.
Date Issued 1940-1950
Language English
Topic Story County (Iowa)
Topic Ames (Iowa)
Topic Commercial streets
Topic Commercial facilities
Topic Stores & shops
Topic Automobiles
Cartographic 42.025075,-93.615327
Classification MS 108, Box 1, ihpc_ames0017
Related Item Iowa Historical Postcard Collection (IHPC)
Related Item Grinnell College. Special Collections and Archives
Related Item Digital Grinnell
Identifier (local) ihpc_ames0017
Identifier (local) grinnell:14254
Access Condition Grinnell College Libraries does not own the copyright in these images and therefore cannot give or deny permission to publish or distribute any of them. It is the researcher's responsibility to determine and satisfy copyright or other use restrictions when publishing or distributing material from this collection. Any materials used must carry a credit line: Historic Iowa Postcard Collection, Special Collections and Archives, Grinnell College Libraries.
Identifier (hdl) http://hdl.handle.net/11084/14254
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