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Street scene, Farnhamville, Iowa

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Looking northwest at various businesses from Foster Street down Garfield Avenue. Farnhamville was platted in 1881 under the name Farnham, named in honor of R. E. Farnham, a railroad official. Postal authorities refused to accept the name Farnham, so town was renamed Farnhamville when the post office opened later in 1881.Farnhamville was incorporated as a city in 1892. 1912 postmark.
Title Street scene, Farnhamville, Iowa
Type of Resource still image
Digital Extent 1 file
Note Sepia
Digital Origin digitized other analog
Media Type image/jpeg
Topic Commercial streets
Topic Commercial facilities
Topic Stores and shops
Topic Dirt roads
Identifier (local) ihpc_farnha0003
Identifier (local) grinnell:16772
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Identifier (hdl) http://hdl.handle.net/11084/16772
Genre postcard
Language English
Related Item Iowa Historical Postcard Collection (IHPC)
Related Item Grinnell College. Special Collections and Archives
Related Item Digital Grinnell
Provenance Purchase or donation
reproduction Scanned with HP Officejet 6600 at 600 ppi. Archival master image available in tiff format.
citation/reference Thesaurus for Graphic Materials I: Subject Terms (TGMI): A History of the Origin of the Place Names Connected with the Chicago and North Western and Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis, and Omaha Railways, Second Edition, compiled by One who for more than 34 years has been an office in the employ of the system, Chicago, 1908 (https://books.google.com/)
Index Date 1912
Publisher KRUXO
Physical Extent 1 postcard : b&w ; 9 x 14 cm.
Medium Real photo, divided back.
Cartographic 42.27534778985711, -94.40381651356174
Topic Streets
Topic Calhoun County (Iowa)
Topic Farnhamville (Iowa)
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