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State Capitol, Des Moines, Iowa

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Looking east at the Iowa Capitol building with the Pioneers of the Territory monument (1892) designed and completed by Karl Gerhardt for a cost of $4,500 in the foreground. The building was completed in 1886 at a cost of $3,296,256, and, and at the time, was the only five-domed capitol in the country. It is located at 1007 East Grand Avenue, Des Moines, Polk County, Iowa and listed on the National Register of Historic Places. 1911 postmark. Number 3812.
Title State Capitol, Des Moines, Iowa
supporting host Grinnell College Libraries Special Collections
Index Date 1911
Publisher Acmegraph Co. (Chicago, Ill.)
Type of Resource still image
Genre postcard
Physical Extent 1 postcard : color ; 9 x 14 cm.
Medium Color lithograph print, divided back.
Note Color
citation/reference National Register of Historic Places (http://www.nationalregisterofhistoricplaces.com/)
Date Issued 1911?
Note Purchase or donation
Note Scanned with HP Scanjet 4670 at 600 ppi. Archival master image available in tiff format.
Language English
Topic Capitols
Topic Monuments and memorials
Topic Government facilities
Topic Polk County (Iowa)
Topic Des Moines (Iowa)
Topic Iowa State Capitol
Cartographic 41.591202, -93.603639
Classification MS 108, Box 2, ihpc_desa0088
Related Item Iowa Historical Postcard Collection (IHPC)
Related Item Grinnell College. Special Collections and Archives
Related Item Digital Grinnell
Identifier (local) ihpc_desa0088
Identifier (local) grinnell:16090
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Identifier (hdl) http://hdl.handle.net/11084/16090
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