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Bird's eye view, Council Bluffs, Iowa

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An aerial view looking east with the Pottawattamie County Courthouse on the left in the background. This second courthouse on South Pearl Street was built in 1888 at a cost of $141,800. It was later declared unsafe and was replaced with a Modernist structure in 1977. 1908 postmark.
Title Bird's eye view, Council Bluffs, Iowa
Alternative TitlePottawattamie County Courthouse
supporting host Grinnell College Libraries Special Collections
Index Date 1908
Publisher J.G. McCrorey & Co. (New York, [N.Y.])
Publisher H.H. Co.
Type of Resource still image
Genre postcard
Physical Extent 1 postcard : color ; 9 x 14 cm.
Medium Color lithograph print, undivided back. Made in Germany.
Note Color
Provenance Purchase or donation
reproduction Scanned with HP Scanjet 4670 at 600 ppi. Archival master image available in tiff format.
citation/reference Pottawattamie County Courthouse (http://www.iowacourtsonline.org/)
Date Issued 1908?
Language English
Topic Council Bluffs (Iowa)
Topic Cityscapes
Topic Courthouses
Topic Commercial facilities
Topic Residential facilities
Topic Aerial views
Topic Pottawattamie County Courthouse
Topic Pottawattamie County (Iowa)
Cartographic 41.258076, -95.851016
Classification MS 108, Box 2, ihpc_councia0003
Related Item Iowa Historical Postcard Collection (IHPC)
Related Item Grinnell College. Special Collections and Archives
Related Item Digital Grinnell
Identifier (local) ihpc_councia0003
Identifier (local) grinnell:16977
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/11084/16977
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