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LOOK Building, Des Moines, Iowa

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On verso: "This modern five-story structure houses LOOK's subscription department which procures, processes and maintains the subscription portion of more than 7,000,000 paid circulation". Looking southeast at the LOOK Magazine building published by brothers Gardner and Mike Cowles who also owned the Des Moines Register and Tribune and the Minneapolis Star and formed the Iowa Broadcasting Company. The magazine was published in Des Moines from 1937 to 1971 and was similar to Life Magazine in content and emphasis in pictorials. The building, located at 111 Tenth Street, Des Moines, Polk County, Iowa, has been converted into residential lofts. 1965 postmark. Number S-211.
Title LOOK Building, Des Moines, Iowa
supporting host Grinnell College Libraries Special Collections
Index Date 1965
Publisher LOOK Magazine Subscription Department (Des Moines, Iowa)
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 Des Moines Broadcasting.com (http://www.desmoinesbroadcasting.com/krnt/krnt-kso-history.html); Des Moines by Craig S. McCue and Ron Playle, Arcadia Publishing, 2007
Date Issued 1965?
Note Purchase or donation
Note Scanned with HP Scanjet 4670 at 600 ppi. Archival master image available in tiff format.
Language English
Topic Publishing industry
Topic Magazine publishing industry
Topic Advertising cards
Topic Commercial facilities
Topic Polk County (Iowa)
Topic Des Moines (Iowa)
Cartographic 41.583930, -93.628873
Classification MS 108, Box 2, ihpc_desa0109
Related Item Iowa Historical Postcard Collection (IHPC)
Related Item Grinnell College. Special Collections and Archives
Related Item Digital Grinnell
Identifier (local) ihpc_desa0109
Identifier (local) grinnell:16143
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/11084/16143
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