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Title: Charles Theater, Charles City, Iowa, Charles Theatre
Description: Constructed in 1935, the ART DECO design included real gold leaf and is considered to be the best example of the few remaining ART DECO theaters in the United States.--t.p. verso. Located at 409 N. Main Street, Charles City, Floyd County, Iowa. Number 39130885.
Date Created: 1945
PID: grinnell:14097

Title: Country club, Chariton, Iowa, Lakeview Golf & Country Club, West Lake
Description: Looking northeast at West Lake, the clubhouse and putting green near the lake. The Lakeview Golf & Country Club is a nine-hole course which opened in 1929 and is located at 21897 480th Street, Chariton, Lucas County, Iowa. Number B817.
Date Created: 1945
PID: grinnell:13744

Title: Elm Street South, Cresco, Iowa, Polashek's Meat Market, Texaco Northern Iowa Service Station, Elms Café, Morris Variety Store
Description: Looking south on a busy street with the Northern Iowa Texaco Service Station, Chevrolet dealership and Polashek's Meat Market on the left and Elm's Café and the Morris Variety Store on the right. Number C220.
Date Created: 1945
PID: grinnell:16975

Title: Iowa State Capitol and Governor of Iowa, Des Moines, Iowa, Wilson, George A.
Description: Photo of George A. Wilson, 1906 Grinnell College graduate and 28th Governer of Iowa, from 1939-1943. On verso: "The Iowa State Capitol was completed in 1886 at a cost of $3,296,256; in its construction, stone quarried in seven foreign countries and several different states was used. The world-famous 'golden dome' on the capitol building is real 22-carat gold." The building is located at 1007 East Grand Avenue, Des Moines, Polk County, Iowa, and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Series 11.
Date Created: 1945
PID: grinnell:16077

Title: Looking west along the Walnut Street Bridge, Des Moines, Iowa
Description: Looking northwest at the closed-spandrel arch bridge over the Des Moines River. The bridge was built in 1911 by John Wheeler Construction Company of Geneva, Illinois and Marsh Engineering Company of Des Moines, Iowa. It's total length is 503.3 feet. Verso says: Des Moines, Iowa Looking West Along Walnut St. Bridge in Foreground, Locust St. Bridge in Background Showing Library, Post Office, Equitable Bldg., Television Towers, Hotels Kirkwood, Savery and Brown, YMCA, and Insurance Exchange Buildings. Number 70792.
Date Created: 1945
PID: grinnell:18900

Title: Masonic Temple, Algona, Iowa, Rutherford House, Kossuth County Hotel, Algona Hospital
Description: Looking northeast at a building that housed lodgers as the Rutherford House around 1881, then was remodeled and used as the Algona Hospital from 1907 to 1931 and then the Masonic Temple in 1931. In 1973 the building was torn down to make room for a drive-up bank. Number S-109.
Date Created: 1945
PID: grinnell:14278

Title: Skyline, Des Moines, Iowa, Bankers Life Building, Younkers, Equitable Life Building
Description: Looking northeast at the Bankers Life Company building on the left, the Younkers Building in the center, and the Equitable Building on the right. On verso: "Skyline, Des Moines, Iowa, as seen from the Fort Des Moines Hotel. Des Moines is the industrial, commercial governmental, political, insurance, publishing and financial center of America's greatest food-producing state." Number 65682.
Date Created: 1945
PID: grinnell:16164

Title: State Capitol Building, Des Moines, Iowa
Description: Looking east at the Iowa State Capitol building with the Pioneers of the Territory monument (1892) designed and completed by Karl Gerhardt for a cost of $4,500 in the foreground. The building was completed in 1886 at a cost of $3,296,256, and, and at the time, was the only five-domed capitol in the country. The dome of the capitol is gilded with tissue-paper thin sheets of pure 23-karat gold, with a protective layer sealing the gold from the weather, and the top of its finial peak is 275 feet (84 m) above the ground. From its opening during 1884 until 1924, it was the tallest building in Des Moines, and likely the entire state. It is located at 1007 East Grand Avenue, Des Moines, Polk County, Iowa and listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Number P4079. Series IA-21.
Date Created: 1945
PID: grinnell:14699