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Title: Boat landing, Mississippi River, Clinton, Iowa
Description: People gathered to board a steamer for a cruise. The Clinton Bridge is in the background. In the first quarter of a century after Clinton county was entered for settlement, it had to depend upon the river and the freight wagon, with an occasional stage coach, or horse mail-carrier, for all that it received from the outside world. 1908 postmark. Number 2553.
Date Created: 1908
PID: grinnell:14436

Title: La Fayette Hotel, Clinton, Iowa, Cromwell Hotel, Lafayette Inn, Lafayette Hotel
Description: Looking south east at the "state of the art" venue for vaudevillians who frequented Clinton and often stayed there. The hotel opened in 1906 and was named after its key investor, Layfayette Lamp. It is currently known as the Lafayette Apartments and located at 143 Sixth Avenue South, Clinton, Clinton County, Iowa. On the Lincoln Highway, Horton & Warden. First Trans-Continental Sign erected on the Lincoln Highway. --title page. 1916 postmark. Number R-46249.
Date Created: 1916
PID: grinnell:13503

Title: Main Street, Delmar, Iowa, Lunch Room Restaurant, Commercial Hotel
Description: Looking south on Main Street with the Lunch Room Restaurant in the left foreground and the Commercial Hotel in the right background.
Date Created: 1910
PID: grinnell:16942

Title: New Coliseum, Clinton, Iowa
Description: The Coliseum was built as an armory in 1914. Construction costs were $110,000. It served as the city's convention center and housed the Modernistic Ball Room. The building was destroyed by fire on December 24, 1958. 1925 postmark. Number 46035. Copyright 1914 by John Morrell & Son.
Date Created: 1925
PID: grinnell:14560

Title: U.S. Post Office, De Witt, Iowa, De Witt City Hall
Description: Looking northeast from Ninth Street. The building was completed in 1937. Located at 510 Ninth Street, De Witt, Clinton County, Iowa. Number E-61.
Date Created: 1945
PID: grinnell:16947