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Title: Main Street, Ames, Iowa, Cooley & Jones
Description: Looking west on Main Street at street trolley tracks. Cooley & Jones Harness shop is on the left. Title supplied by cataloger.
Date Created: 1920
PID: grinnell:13874

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: Methodist Church, Cherokee, Iowa, First Methodist Church, St. Paul's United Methodist Church
Description: Looking southeast at a two-story brick building built and dedicated on February 21, 1915. By congregational vote, the name of the church was changed from “First Methodist Church” to “St. Paul’s Methodist Church” in 1947. The church is located at 531 W. Main Street, Cherokee, Cherokee County, Iowa. Number 24162-5.
Date Created: 1940
PID: grinnell:13561

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: Norwegian American Historical Museum, Decorah, Iowa, Vesterheim: The National Norwegian-American Museum and Heritage Center
Description: Looking northeast at a 3-story brick and stone building located at 520 West Water Street, Decorah, Winneshiek County, Iowa. In 1877, Norwegian Americans began collecting and preserving objects at Luther College in Decorah, Iowa, documenting their chapter of the immigrant story, making them pioneers in the preservation of cultural diversity in America. Number C241.
Date Created: 1945
PID: grinnell:16178

Title: Parade of automobiles, Anthon, Iowa
Description: Looking northwest on East Main Street at a parade of automobiles parked in from of the local pool hall and lunch room in Anthon, Iowa. Title supplied by cataloger.
Date Created: 1920
PID: grinnell:14244

Title: Post Hospital, Fort Des Moines, Des Moines, Iowa
Description: Looking at the post hospital which housed many veterans after World War II. Fort Des Moines was established in 1901 on 640 acres, several miles south of downtown Des Moines. In 1917 the first officer candidate class of African Americans in US military history, trained at Fort Des Moines, and received commissions. Also in 1917 a training camp for black medical personnel began, and in 1918 the fort was used for the treatment of World War I casualties. In 1933-34 it was used as a Civilian Conservation Corps camp. With the entry of the United States into World War II, the fort was used as a training center for women, for service in the Army's Women's Army Corps. After the war, the fort housed veteran soldiers for a time, and was turned over to the city in the early 1950s. Much of the original 640-acre base was sold off for development as the city grew. A number of the fort's buildings still stand, mainly on the southern and eastern edges of the parade ground. These buildings, including barracks, quarters, and stables, are now used for a variety of civic and commercial purposes. It is listed in the National Register of Historic Places. 1944 postmark. Number 12AT398. Series B11.
Date Created: 1944
PID: grinnell:16136

Title: Post office, Atlantic, Iowa
Description: Looking northwest at a one-story brick post office in Atlantic, Iowa with car parked in front and flag on top of building. The Atlantic Post Office was established in 1869. Located at 20 East Fifth Street, Atlantic, Cass County, Iowa. Number 49857.
Date Created: 1914
PID: grinnell:14234

Title: Roadway at Arnolds Park, Iowa, Lake Okoboji
Description: Looking southeast on US Highway 71 at an automobile service station with gasoline pumps on the left crossing East and West Okoboji Lake. Number 172.
Date Created: 1925
PID: grinnell:13745