Search results | Digital Grinnell

Title: Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Depot, Elliott, Iowa
Description: Looking northwest from Main Street at the Elliott Depot in Elliott, Iowa, with several railroad employees standing out front. The Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad (reporting mark CBQ) was a railroad that operated in the Midwestern United States. Commonly referred to as the Burlington Route, the Burlington, or as the Q,[1][2] it operated extensive trackage in the states of Colorado, Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Wisconsin, Wyoming, and also in New Mexico and Texas through subsidiaries Colorado and Southern Railway, Fort Worth and Denver Railway, and Burlington-Rock Island Railroad.[citation needed] Its primary connections included Chicago, Minneapolis–Saint Paul, St. Louis, Kansas City, and Denver. Because of this extensive trackage in the midwest and mountain states, the railroad used the advertising slogans "Everywhere West", "Way of the Zephyrs", and "The Way West".
PID: grinnell:16787

Title: Christian Church, Elliott, Iowa, First Christian Church
Description: Looking at a two-story wooden building built in 1901. When the congregation grew, the property was sold in 1911 and a new chruch was built in 1912. 1909 postmark.
PID: grinnell:16788

Title: Depot, Edgewood, Iowa, Edgewood Railroad Depot, Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railroad, Western Union
Description: Looking northwest at the Edgewood Depot on the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railway line with a Western Union telegraph sign hanging in the front of the one-story building. 1911 postmark. Number 4.
PID: grinnell:16802

Title: Eddyville views, Eddyville, Iowa, Eddyville Toll Bridge, Des Moines River, Walnut Street looking east, Grant Cowley Building, Iowa Central Railroad Bridge, Iowa Central Depot
Description: A multiview of Eddyville: 1. Looking west from Main Street at a lost Howe pony truss bridge over the Des Moines River built in 1853 and replaced in 1885 by Stone, Boomer and Boyington of Davenport, Iowa. 2. Walnut Street looking east including the Grant Cowley building built in 1890 on the left. Grant Cowley (1864-1918) was an early founder and mayor of Eddyville, Iowa. 3. The Iowa Central Railroad Bridge was a lost Howe through truss bridge over the Des Moines River build in 1886 and replaced 1901. 4. Looking southwest at a railroad employee standing in front of the Iowa Central Depot. Eddyville, Iowa was founded by Jabish P. Eddy in 1841 before Iowa became a state. It was a place for trade with the Indians and for pioneers to provision and ford the Des Moines River. Number 61460.
PID: grinnell:15558

Title: Elkhorn College, Elkhorn, Iowa, Danish Lutheran College, Elkhorn Lutheran High School and College
Description: The Elkhorn Lutheran High School and College was established in 1878 to "help young folk coming over here from the fatherland, Denmark, to obtain such an instruction as weould qualify them for their professions or work in this country". The instruction was given in Danish and English. The main building was destroyed in a fire in 1910 and a new building dedicated the same year. The college was discontinued in the 1950s.
PID: grinnell:16789

Title: Greetings from Eddyville, Iowa, Looking west on Walnut Street after the fire, Looking east at a flooded Walnut Street, Walnut Street looking west, Methodist Episcopal Church, Iowa Central Railroad Bridge, Wagon Bridge, Eddyville Bridge
Description: A multiview of Eddyville: 1. Looking west at Walnut Street after a fire. 2. (in center) Looking east at a flooded Walnut Street. 2. Looking west on Walnut Street. 3. Looking southwest at the Methodist Episcopal Church built in 1901. 4. The Iowa Central Railroad Bridge was a lost Howe through truss bridge over the Des Moines River build in 1886 and replaced 1901. 5. Looking northwest at the Eddyville Bridge with a couple men on horseback and others walking across the bridge over the Des Moines River. 1909 postmark.
PID: grinnell:16921

Title: H.W. Emeny Auto Company, Eldora, Iowa, Emeny, Harry W.
Description: Looking southeast at the three-story brick Wisner Building built in 1912 by Reed & Stern from St. Paul, Minnesota. The building was named after Gilman H. Wisner and it held the H.W. Emeny Auto Company. Listed in the National Register of Historic Places.
PID: grinnell:16795

Title: July 4, 1907 celebration, Elgin, Iowa, Elgin Concert Hall, Elgin IOOF Lodge, Order of the Eastern Star Lodge
Description: Looking east on Center Street at a July 4 parade. The Elgin Block, built in 1872, included the Elgin Concert Hall (on right), the Elgin Lodge, IOOF No. 220, and the Order of the Eastern Star Lodge. 1907 postmark.
PID: grinnell:16919

Title: Main Street, Elkader, Iowa, H.W.& G.H. Wilke, Becker Brothers Drugstore, Bayless Hotel
Description: Looking south on North Main Street with the H.W.& G.H. Wilke building and the Becker Brothers Drugstore in the right foreground and the Bayliss Hotel in the right background.
PID: grinnell:16790

Title: Main Street, Elma, Iowa, Busti Avenue
Description: Looking north on Main Street in Elliott, Iowa, with a real estate office in the right background.
PID: grinnell:16786