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Title: Bird's eye view, Burlington, Iowa, Mississippi River, Des Moines County Courthouse, Des Moines County Court House
Description: Looking northeast at Burlington, Iowa business district with the Des Moines County Courthouse and the Mississippi River in the background. 1908 postmark. Number 12189.
Date Created: 1908
PID: grinnell:14162

Title: Bridge over Railroad Tracks West of Grinnell
Description: Postcard view of the bridge over the railroad tracks west of Grinnell, Iowa. The bridge was located just south of 385th Avenue on 20th Street. This bridge burned at some point in time and was replaced by the current (April 2015) bridge. Postcard is addressed to Mrs. Rosa Sparks, Austin, Texas, and is postmarked February 4, 1908, in Grinnell, Iowa, and February 6, 1908, in Austin, Texas.
Date Created: 1908
PID: grinnell:11369

Title: Broad Street, Grinnell, Iowa
Description: Looking south on unpaved Broad Street with bicyclist and Congregational Church in the foreground.
Date Created: 1908
PID: grinnell:13997

Title: Brooklyn High School cheer, Brooklyn, Iowa, B.H.S.
Description: Card has small school banner with cheer: "Whoop em! Skoop em! Thru and thru. We do! We do! Why don't you? Always loyal, always true, B.H.S. scarlet and blue"--t.p.. Copyright 1908 with Acmegraph Co. Number 015.
Date Created: 1908
PID: grinnell:13918

Title: C. & N.W. shops, Belle Plaine, Iowa, Chicago & North Western shops, Chicago & North Western Railroad shops
Description: Chicago & North Western railroad shops in Belle Plaine, Iowa with a railroad locomotive on a turntable. 1908 postmark.
Date Created: 1908
PID: grinnell:13447

Title: Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Depot, C. R. I. & P. Depot, Monroe, Iowa
Description: Railway employees on car 3356 either loading or unloading goods onto the train. 1908 postmark.
Date Created: 1908
PID: grinnell:13883

Title: Chicago and North Western Train Wreck, April 23, 1908, De Witt, Iowa, Silver Creek
Description: Men, women and children are looking at an aftermath of a train wreck. 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:16185