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Iowa and Illinois Railway between Davenport, Iowa, Rock Island and Moline, Illinois and Clinton, Iowa

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Front says: Trains every 60 minutes. In 1910, the Iowa and Illinois Railway secured a valuable freight terminal property in Davenport, Iowa. It included an office building and a warehouse which was occupied originally by the Burlington, Cedar Rapids and Northern Railway, under a right granted to it by the City of Davenport. The property reverted to the city and was offered to the Iowa and Illinois Railway Company. 1908 postmark.
Title Iowa and Illinois Railway between Davenport, Iowa, Rock Island and Moline, Illinois and Clinton, Iowa
Alternative TitleIowa and Illinois Railway Company
Index Date 1908
Publisher Montgomery, M. (Rock Island, Ill.)
Type of Resource still image
Genre postcard
Physical Extent 1 postcard : b&w ; 9 x 14 cm.
Medium Real photo reprint, undivided back.
Note Sepia
citation/reference "The Electric Railway Journal", Index to Volume XXXV, No. 6, January to June, 1910, McGraw Publishing Company, New York (Free eBook from Google Scholar)
Date Issued 1908?
Note Purchase or donation
Note Scanned with HP Scanjet 4670 at 600 ppi. Archival master image available in tiff format.
Language English
Topic Railways, Iowa and Illinois
Topic Street railroads
Topic Scott County (Iowa)
Topic Davenport (Iowa)
Cartographic 41.519360, -90.577034
Classification MS 108, Box 2, ihpc_davenp0016
Related Item Iowa Historical Postcard Collection (IHPC)
Related Item Grinnell College. Special Collections and Archives
Related Item Digital Grinnell
Identifier (local) ihpc_davenp0016
Identifier (local) grinnell:16199
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Identifier (hdl) http://hdl.handle.net/11084/16199
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