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Title: "Central School", Algona, Iowa
Description: Looking at a three-story brick and stone building built in 1886 with children in front. The building was torn down in 1930 to make room for the new high school building. 1914 postmark. Number 044.
PID: grinnell:13895

Title: "We Like Center Point. So Will You", Center Point, Iowa
Description: Montage of 8 Center Point, Iowa landmarks including the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad Station, Commercial Park, Center Point Canning Factory, High school building, Methodist Episcopal church, ditching for the water works mains, and Main Street. 1913 postmark.
PID: grinnell:13390

Title: 18th Street viaduct and bridges, Des Moines, Iowa
Description: Looking southwest from 18th Street (now Fleur Drive) at the bridge over the Raccoon River. Number 63397.
PID: grinnell:16163

Title: 1946 Farm Record
Description: Farm record book published by C.A. Bacon, Hillsdale Michigan. This volume, published for 1946, has "1947" hand-written on the cover and contains records for the Raymond S. Pilgrim farm which was located in the northeast quarter of Section 27 of Grant Township in Poweshiek County, Iowa. The tables in the book are keyed to the federal income tax schedules. Schedules included are: Livestock bought and sold; sale of produce; labor expense; feed, seed, and supplies purchased; machines hired; repairs and maintenance; fertilizer; fuel and oil; interest paid; electricity and telephone; freight and trucking; veterinary and medicine; taxes paid; insurance; storage hired; rent of other lands and buildings; other miscellaneous expenses; depreciation of buildings, machinery, livestock, fences and drains; other income and other deductible expenses.
PID: grinnell:18937

Title: 1st Presbyterian Church, Council Bluffs, Iowa
Description: Looking northeast at the front entrance of the First Presbyterian Church built in 1865. This building was raised and a new, larger church building was built in 1887. It was located at 634 Willow Avenue, Council Bluffs, Pottawattamie County, Iowa. 1905 postmark. Number 19.
PID: grinnell:16979

Title: 2322 Olive Street, Cedar Falls, Iowa
Description: Looking northeast at the home of Dr. David Sands Wright. Professor Wright taught the first English Literature class at the opening of the Iowa State Normal School on September 6, 1876. He went on to also teach Mathematics and Religious Education. Wright was well known throughout the state for his sermons and lectures, and was recognized as an eloquent and forceful speaker. The home was later purchased in 1941 by the Board of Directors of the school and served as a residence, chapel and student center for the College Hill Lutheran Church. The Wright house was torn down to make room for a new building in 1946. Series 732.
PID: grinnell:14143

Title: 72" Indep[endent] Head Wall on Armco Paved Invert Pip under 8' Fill, Iowa Culvert and Pipe Co., Des Moines, Iowa
Description: Man standing in Armco Culvert. 1918 ad about Armco Culverts: "'Armco' Iron Culverts cost less per year than any other type of construction you can use to drain railroad tracks or highways. They have been on the market for years and have been installed in all parts of the country — in all kinds of soils — under all imaginable conditions — and they have made good. They last! Made of the most durable of available culvert metals — rust-resisting 'ARMCO' Iron — light, strong, resilient. Easily and quickly installed with ordinary labor, and once in the ground there to stay."
PID: grinnell:16846

Title: 96" installation, the finished job, Iowa Culvert and Pipe Co., Des Moines, Iowa
Description: Four men standing in an Armco Culvert. 1918 ad about Armco Culverts: "'Armco' Iron Culverts cost less per year than any other type of construction you can use to drain railroad tracks or highways. They have been on the market for years and have been installed in all parts of the country — in all kinds of soils — under all imaginable conditions — and they have made good. They last! Made of the most durable of available culvert metals — rust-resisting 'ARMCO' Iron — light, strong, resilient. Easily and quickly installed with ordinary labor, and once in the ground there to stay." 1931 postmark.
PID: grinnell:16931

Title: Academy and Catholic Church, Charles City, Iowa
Description: Three story brick and stone church building (1203 Clark Street, Charles City, Floyd County, Iowa) in the background with three story brick and stone school building in foreground. 1910 postmark.
PID: grinnell:14096

Title: Adams Street, East from Summit Hotel, Creston, Iowa
Description: One of the first hotels in Creston, Iowa, the Summit Hotel, was built in 1880 by a stock company composed of Swan & Becker and Colonel Beckwith, among others, and was destroyed by fire in 1896. The hotel owners rebuilt on the same site later that year, but shortly before midnight on December 1916 another fire destroyed the building. The loss was estimated at $200,000 and defective electrical wiring was believed to have caused the fire. Creston centennial card, 1869-1969.
PID: grinnell:16226