Looking north on Walnut Street with The Boss Meat Market and dentist office on the left and a sanitarium down the street on the right. At its peak, Colfax had a total of nine hotels and sanitariums.
Title
Walnut Street looking north, Colfax, Iowa
Alternative Title
The Boss Meat Market
supporting host
Grinnell College Libraries Special Collections
Index Date
1931
Publisher
DOPS
Type of Resource
still image
Genre
postcard
Physical Extent
1 postcard : b&w ; 9 x 14 cm.
Medium
Real photo, undivided back.
Provenance
Purchase or donation
reproduction
Scanned with HP Scanjet 4670 at 600 ppi. Archival master image available in tiff format.
citation/reference
Iowa Research Online, Noe, Mary. "The Spring City: Colfax, Iowa." The Annals of Iowa 38 (1966), 241-255 (http://ir.uiowa.edu/annals-of-iowa/vol38/iss4/2)
Language
English
Topic
Jasper County (Iowa)
Topic
Colfax (Iowa)
Topic
Commercial streets
Topic
Commercial facilities
Topic
Meat industry
Topic
Sanatoriums
Topic
The Boss Meat Market
Cartographic
41.677332, -93.245242
Classification
MS 108, Box 2, ihpc_colfax0002
Related Item
Iowa Historical Postcard Collection (IHPC)
Related Item
Grinnell College. Special Collections and Archives
Related Item
Digital Grinnell
Identifier (local)
ihpc_colfax0002
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.
