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Title: Thompson's Bend, Union Park, Des Moines, Iowa, Des Moines River
Description: Looking northwest across the Des Moines River from Thompson's Bend. It was named for Andrew McFarland Thompson, a pioneer settler who staked claim to 1400 acres in 1848 along the east side of the Des Moines River between Center Street Dam and Sixth Avenue. 1910 postmark. Number 6445.
Date Created: 1910
PID: grinnell:18887

Title: Grinnell College, men's gymnasium
Description: Looking southwest from central campus. Men's gymnasium in foreground. 1910 postmark. Number 7980. Series 915.
Date Created: 1910
PID: grinnell:13525

Title: Rand Gymnasium, women's gymnasium, Grinnell College
Description: Looking southwest. Rand Gymnasium (on the right) was constructed in 1897 and destroyed by fire in 1939. The cost to build was between $10,000 and $17,360. Blair Hall is in the background. 1910 postmark. Number 7980.
Date Created: 1910
PID: grinnell:13360

Title: Town view of Belle Plaine, Iowa, Franklin Park
Description: Looking northwest at Belle Plaine, Iowa with a ballpark in the foreground and grain elevators in the center.
Date Created: 1910
PID: grinnell:14205

Title: Train Stalled in Snow
Description: Photograph of train stalled in the snow, presumably near Grinnell, Iowa. Back of photo says "444 & snow plow." Drake Community Library (Grinnell, Iowa) Archives. McNally photographs. Collection #1, Series #1-1.
Date Created: 1910
PID: grinnell:6348

Title: Train wreck near Bagley, Iowa
Description: Crowded gathered around a train wreck with one railroad car turned perpendicular to the rest of the train. Number 3.
Date Created: 1910
PID: grinnell:14219

Title: Tuesday Club Dinner
Description: Photograph of a Tuesday Club dinner, consisting of 8 courses served by 8 waiters with Scott MacEachern as head waiter. Mr. and Mrs. Will Sanders in foreground. Benjamin and Mabel Ricker are seated about half-way back immediately beneath the last two standing waiters on the right. Odd Fellows Hall, Grinnell, Iowa, March 11, 1910. Drake Community Library Archives. Oversize photos.
Date Created: 1910
PID: grinnell:6067

Title: Union Electric Company's Station and loop at Union Park, Dubuque, Iowa
Description: Incorporated on August 13, 1900, to provide electric power to Dubuque, the Union Electric Company was the successor of Hill Street and West Dubuque Steam Railway Company, Dubuque Street Railway Company, Dubuque Light and Traction Company, Star Electric Company, and the Home Electric Company. Union Park, operated by the company, was the only park of its type in the United States maintained exclusively by a street railway company. After Union Electric made many improvements such as new rail cars, a new car barn and power station, and a manufacturing plant, Dubuque Electric Company took over the operation in 1916. No. 165
Date Created: 1910
PID: grinnell:15560

Title: Union Park, Des Moines, Iowa
Description: View of dirt road in Union Park, located at 725 Thompson Avenue, Des Moines, Polk County, Iowa. 1910 postmark. Number 1994. Series 252.
Date Created: 1910
PID: grinnell:18885