Photograph of a "carnivalesque" in the backyard of the Ross residence at 817 Seventh Avenue, taken in the early 1900s. Bicyclists rode around the inner perimeter of the structure, made of wooden slats held erect by guide wires on a concrete slab.
Charles F. Craver, owner of Craver & Steele manufacturers, built this large Italianate residence in 1883, after his original home at Seventh and Broad was destroyed by the 1882 cyclone.
Admissions counselor Charles J. Stiffler, class of 1964, with students from Iowa Valley Marengo Community High School, and their teacher Gary Morreson.
Aerial photograph, circa 1941, looking northeast from the intersection of Main Street and the railroad toward the intersection of Broad Street and Fourth Avenue.
