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Title: Bad Wreck at Victor
Description: Newspaper article from the Brooklyn Chronicle describing the train wreck at Victor, Iowa, on January 18, 1902.
Date Created: 1902
PID: grinnell:27269

Title: C.& N.W.R. Locomotive No. 2209, Chicago and North Western Railway Locomotive No. 2209
Description: Postcard view of C.& N.W. Railway locomotive No. 2209. Velox stamp box with diamonds in the corners. Drake Community Library (Grinnell, Iowa) Archives. Hodgdon Photographs Collection #259.
Date Created: 1907
PID: grinnell:27287

Title: Chicago and North Western Train Wreck, April 23, 1908, De Witt, Iowa, Silver Creek
Description: View of the wrecked train. On April 23, 1908, southwest of DeWitt, Iowa, at Silver Creek, flooding weakened a bridge and gave way to stock train 132 where an engine and 17 cars of cattle fell into the water. Three crewmen perished in the wreck.
Date Created: 1908
PID: grinnell:16950

Title: Depot scene, Bremer, Iowa, Bremer Station
Description: Looking at a train pulling in to Bremer Depot with several men waiting on the platform with their bags. Bremer was a stop along the Chicago, St. Paul & Kansas City Railroad and the small community was never incorporated.
Date Created: 1910
PID: grinnell:14169

Title: Great Northern Mountain Engine No. 1907
Description: Steam locomotive with coal car. Postcard from George Hodgdon to William S. Hodgdon dated August 1, 1909 and mailed the same day with an R.P.O. (Railway Post Office) postmark. A second postmark on the front from Sioux City. Drake Community Library (Grinnell, Iowa) Archives. Hodgdon Photographs Collection #259.
Date Created: 1909
PID: grinnell:27284

Title: Poweshiek County Road Poll Tax Receipt
Description: Receipt from the Poweshiek County Road Poll Tax to Wallace Breniman for labor performed. Dated September 9, 1936.
Date Created: 1936
PID: grinnell:27265

Title: Rock Island Depot, Belmond, Iowa, Western Union
Description: Looking northeast at the two story wooden railroad depot with train leaving the station. There is a a Western Union Telegraph sign on the building with a windmill and a silo in the background. Passengers are standing on the boardwalk. Number 5212.
Date Created: 1915
PID: grinnell:14179

Title: Station at Bellevue, Iowa, Illinois Oil Company
Description: Train on the tracks in front of two oil barrels and a plant building with Illinois Oil Company on it in Bellevue, Iowa. The Illinois Oil was begun by Frank Welch in the small Iowa town of Mediapolis, but he relocated to Rock Island in 1907 because of its proximity to the Mississippi River and railroads, according to the landmark application. 1914 postmark.
Date Created: 1914
PID: grinnell:13777

Title: Steam Locomotive Coming into the Railyard
Description: William S. Hodgdon watches as a steam locomotive (#2461) comes into the trainyards, probably in Cherokee, Iowa. Azo stamp box with two triangles pointing up and two down on verso. Drake Community Library (Grinnell, Iowa) Archives. Hodgdon Photographs Collection #259.
Date Created: 1919
PID: grinnell:27286

Title: Train wreck, July 22, 1907, with railroad crane, Belle Plaine, Iowa
Description: A crane car clearing wreckage from the July 22, 1907, train wreck near Belle Plaine, Iowa. 1907 postmark.
Date Created: 1907
PID: grinnell:14184