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Title: St. Mary's Church, Alton, Iowa, Saint Mary's Roman Catholic Church, Saint Mary's Catholic Church, St. Mary's Catholic Church
Description: Looking southeast at the newly built Catholic church made of Romanesque architecture and pressed brick and stone with two towers of the same height. The church was constructed in 1908, and Martin Heer from Dubuque was the architect. It is located at 609 10th Street, Alton, Sioux County, Iowa. 1909 postmark.
Date Created: 1909
PID: grinnell:13551

Title: St. Mary's Church, Clinton, Iowa, Saint Mary's Church, Jesus Christ Prince of Peace Catholic Parish, St. Mary's Catholic Church
Description: Built mostly by immigrants, St. Mary's Church took four long years to complete from 1884-1888. The rectory was added in 1896. The church was demolished in 2009. 1909 postmark. Number 48999.
Date Created: 1909
PID: grinnell:13298

Title: Stable Gang Troop H, 2nd U.S. Calvary, Chariton, Iowa, Stable Gang Troop H, Second U.S. Calvary, Chariton, Iowa
Description: Eleven men from the Second U.S. Cavalry, Troop H, sitting on bags of supply rations in front of a camp. Number 5.
Date Created: 1909
PID: grinnell:14105

Title: State Capitol, Des Moines, Iowa
Description: Looking northeast at the Iowa State Capitol building which 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. 1907 postmark. 1909 postmark. Number 1976.
Date Created: 1909
PID: grinnell:18766

Title: State Normal School, Cedar Falls, Iowa, Iowa State Teachers College, State College of Iowa, University of Northern Iowa
Description: Looking west at the old Administration Building completed in 1896 at a cost of $35,000, and the Auditorium Building (Lang Hall) completed in 1901 at a cost of $120,000. 1909 postmark. Number 6085.
Date Created: 1909
PID: grinnell:13296

Title: Street scene, Amana, Iowa, Greetings from Amana, Iowa
Description: Looking down a dirt street in Amana, Iowa. The Amana Colony is seven villages on 26,000 acres located in Iowa County. 1909 postmark. Number 263915. Series 5. Title supplied by cataloger.
Date Created: 1909
PID: grinnell:13836

Title: The dedication of the sanitorium, Nevada, Iowa, The Iowa Sanitorium of the Seventh Day Adventists, Old San
Description: The Iowa Sanitorium of the Seventh Day Adventists was dedicated on August 21, 1909, and located on 55 acres at the south end of, present day, 8th Street in Nevada, Iowa. The Sanitorium, which cost approximately $75,000 to build, was initiated by the Seventh Day Adventists in Des Moines who moved to Nevada because their Des Moines facility was “too noisy”. The building was destroyed by fire on January 30, 1943.
Date Created: 1909
PID: grinnell:18180

Title: Wagon bridge crossing Nodaway River, Clarinda, Iowa
Description: Scenic view of the old wooden wagon bridge connected to the newer truss bridge. The river's name (as "Nodawa") first appears in the journal of Lewis and Clark, who camped at the mouth of the river on July 8, 1804. The name is an Otoe-Missouria term meaning "jump over water". 1909 postmark. Number D2206.
Date Created: 1909
PID: grinnell:14076

Title: William S. Hodgdon at the Wheel
Description: William S. Hodgdon, smoking a cigar, sits at the wheel of an early automobile with two unidentified men. Vehicle has a right-hand steering wheel. Verso of the postcard reads, "This photo made at Peoples Arcade, 129 S. Clark St., near Madison, Chicago, Ill." Drake Community Library (Grinnell, Iowa) Archives. Hodgdon Photographs Collection #259.
Date Created: 1909
PID: grinnell:27279