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Title: Arbor Lake, Grinnell, Iowa
Description: Looking east at shoreline with canoers and boathouse. Arbor Lake, named for Arbor Day, when hundreds of trees were planted there, was created in 1902 as a storage reservoir to provide soft water for manufacturing firms. Number 1222.
Date Created: 1905
PID: grinnell:14499

Title: Beim Dengeln, Whetting the Scythe, Plate 3 from Bauernkreig (Peasant War)
Date Created: 1905
PID: faulconer-art:3648

Title: Boone Viaduct over the Des Moines River, Boone, Iowa, Kate Shelley High Bridge, Kate Shelley Memorial High Bridge, Boone High Bridge, Chicago & Northwestern Railroad viaduct, Boone Viaduct
Description: "Boone Viaduct over the Des Moines River, four miles west of Boone, Iowa, on main line of Chicago & Northwestern Railway. Length 2,685 feet. Height 185. 5,600 tons of Steel. Length of center span 300 feet. Largest Double Track Bridge in the World." --t.p. The Pratt deck truss bridge was built in 1899-1901, designed by the Chicago and Northwestern Railroad and constructed by the American Bridge Co. (Ambridge, PA). It is located in the Boone-Ogden Cutoff and crosses the Des Moines River at a point where the bluffs on either side are about 3000 feet apart. The bridge was nicknamed for the Iowa railroad heroine, Kate Shelley, also spelled Shelly. In 1881, when she was 17 years old, Kate Shelley risked her life to warn a passenger train by crossing the Des Moines River Bridge near Moingona at night, during a thunderstorm. Her goal was to warn the passenger train that the next bridge was out. That train had already been stopped. She then led rescuers to two men still in the swollen, flooded Honey Creek near her house, and they were saved. Her bravery was heralded in many newspapersListed in the National Register of Historic Places.
Date Created: 1905
PID: grinnell:13379

Title: Busy day in Brooklyn, Iowa, Jackson Street
Description: Looking north on Jackson Street with a number of people waiting for the July 4 parade in downtown Brooklyn, Iowa. Number 10.
Date Created: 1905
PID: grinnell:13724

Title: Church of the Emmaculate Conception, Cedar Rapids, Iowa, Immaculate Conception Parish, Church of the Immaculate Conception
Description: Looking at the Immaculate Conception Church which is the oldest Catholic parish in Cedar Rapids. The old wood building on 3rd Avenue SE and 7th Street SE was replaced in the early 1870s by a larger brick building seen here to serve the Catholic population of the city. By the turn of the twentieth century, the growing parish demanded even larger facilities. A new site at 3rd Avenue SE and 10th Street SE was purchased in 1914 and a new building was built in 1915. Number 2768.
Date Created: 1905
PID: grinnell:13776

Title: Correspondence
Description: Correspondence of the Grinnell Political Equality Club with the Iowa Equal Suffrage Association. 2 letters. Drake Community Library (Grinnell, Iowa) Archives. Collection # 161.
Date Created: 1905
PID: grinnell:5260

Title: Correspondence of the Poweshiek County Anti-Saloon League
Description: 1905 letter concerning the organization of the Poweshiek County Anti-Saloon League and 1911 letter sent to local newspapers requesting publication of a notice of an upcoming meeting. Drake Community Library (Grinnell, Iowa) Archives. Collection # 65.
Date Created: 1905
PID: grinnell:5591

Title: Creamery, Bridgewater, Iowa, Bridgewater Creamery Company
Description: Looking at a two-story brick building with smoke stack on left and child standing in front of the building. This is the first Bridgewater Creamery building built in the late 1800's.
Date Created: 1905
PID: grinnell:14168