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Title: Rock Island Depot, City Hotel & Elevators, Avoca, Iowa, Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Rail Road Co.
Description: Depot with carts and milk cans on platform with grain elevator in the left background and hotel in the right background. 1908 postmark.
Date Created: 1908
PID: grinnell:14221

Title: Sixth Avenue Bridge, Des Moines, Iowa
Description: The closed-spandrel arch bridge on Sixth Avenue was designed by Edwin Thatcher from New York and built in 1907. In 1965 it collapsed due to bad infrastructure and was replaced in 1966. 1908 postmark.
Date Created: 1908
PID: grinnell:14598

Title: St. Patrick's Academy, Danbury, Iowa
Description: This St. Patrick's Academy building, built in 1908 by C.F. Mayer, a contractor from Humboldt, Iowa, replaced the white wooden academy built in 1887 due to lack of space. The new academy had a full basement and four floors. It was heated with steam heat and electricity. The first floor held high school classroom and an auditorium; the third floor held rooms for the nuns, the fourth floor or attic had several rooms for roomers who stayed at the convent. The building was destroyed by fire in 1910. 1908 postmark. Title supplied by cataloger.
Date Created: 1908
PID: grinnell:16962

Title: Street scene, Charter Oak, Iowa, Loomis & Murphy
Description: Looking north from the National Savings Bank on Main Street. Sign on second building to left says, Loomis & Murphy. Sign on building to the right says "Money orders for sale here. Cheaper rates than charged by post office & express co." 1908 postmark.
Date Created: 1908
PID: grinnell:13737

Title: U.S. government building, Clinton, Iowa, United States government building, United States Post Office
Description: Looking southwest at the neoclassical post office building built in 1902 at a cost of $100,000. It was designed by Louis Simon and built by James Knox Taylor, Supervising Architect, U.S. Treasury Department and M. Yeager & Son, Contractor. The building is still standing as of 2016 and located at 301 Fifth Avenue South, Clinton, Clinton County, Iowa. 1908 postmark. Number 15930.
Date Created: 1908
PID: grinnell:13616

Title: University Church of Christ, Des Moines, Iowa, University Place Christian Chapel, First Christian Church
Description: The first church building was constructed in 1888 to serve the faculty, staff and students at Drake University. In 1909, a large auditorium seating 2,000 was constructed beside the original church. Located at 2500 University Avenue, Des Moines, Polk County, Iowa. 1908 postmark. Number 10.
Date Created: 1908
PID: grinnell:18889

Title: View of campus, Iowa State College, Ames, Iowa, Iowa State University
Description: The electric trolley replaced the "Dinkey" in 1907. The "Dinkey" was a railroad steam line that connected the campus to the town. 1908 postmark. Number 63.
Date Created: 1908
PID: grinnell:13768

Title: View of dam at Suburban Island, Davenport, Iowa, Grand Island, Grand Isle, Credit Island, Offerman's Island, Manhattan Island
Description: This island has had many names beginning with Credit Island well known for the 1814 Battle of Credit Island, one of the westernmost battles of the War of 1812 fought between the Sauk Indians with British support and a regiment under the command of Zachary Taylor. Other names for the island were Offerman's Island, Grand Island [Isle], Manhattan Island, Offerman's Island, and Suburban Island. 1908 postmark. Number 6677.
Date Created: 1908
PID: grinnell:16205

Title: Water front, Lake Manawa, Council Bluffs, Iowa, Cut-Off Lake, Lake Manawa
Description: Looking east from the Council Bluffs Golf Club at several sailboats and rowboats on Lake Manawa. Lake Manawa was created in 1881 from a Missouri River flood. 1908 postmark.
Date Created: 1908
PID: grinnell:15194

Title: West's Eye Infirmary, Corydon, Iowa
Description: Looking at the front entrance to a three-story wooden building established in 1895 by Surgeon W.E. West. 1908 postmark.
Date Created: 1908
PID: grinnell:16228