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Title: Greetings from Buffalo, Iowa, Front Street, Buffalo High School, Buffalo Tile Works, St. Peter Catholic Church, Dohrman's General Store, Buffalo Town Hall, Buffalo Depot and Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railway
Description: Montage of eight Buffalo landmarks: Looking northwest on Front Street. Looking north at Buffalo High School located at 326 Fourth Street, Buffalo, Scott County, Iowa. Looking southeast at Buffalo Tile Works. Looking north at St. Peter Catholic Church located at 406 Fourth Street, Buffalo, Scott County, Iowa. Buffalo Town Hall. Looking north at Dohrman's General Store owned by Henry Dohrman. Looking northeast at the Buffalo Post Office located at 326 Front Street, Buffalo, Scott County, Iowa. Looking east at the Buffalo Depot built around 1882 and the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railway. 1909 postmark.
Date Created: 1909
PID: grinnell:13290

Title: Greetings from Callender, Iowa, Main Street West, City hall, Main Street East, Public school, Birdseye view
Description: Montage of Callendar, Iowa: Looking east and west on Main Street. Looking south at city hall. Looking at a three-story public school. A birdseye view of the city. 1909 postmark. Number E-192.
Date Created: 1909
PID: grinnell:13328

Title: Greetings from Elkader, Iowa, Elkader High School, Elkader Big Dam, Turkey River, Clayton County Court House, Clayton County Courthouse, St. Joseph Catholic Church, Bayless Hotel, Lovers Lane, Elkader Keystone Bridge, Main Street
Description: A multiview of Elkader, Iowa, from left to right, top to bottom. Looking at the Elkader High School built in 1876 and destroyed by fire in 1936. Looking west at the Elkader Big Dam built in 1864 and situated on the Turkey River. Looking west at the Clayton County Courthouse located at 111 South High Street, Elkader, Clayton County, Iowa. The Italianate style courthouse was constructed in 1868 and the courthouse clocktower was added in 1896. Looking south on West Bridge Street at the Bayless Hotel built in 1897 to replace the Clark House which had burned down in 1896. Looking north from a wooden boardwalk with the Elkader Keystone Bridge and the Elkader State Bank in the background. Looking northeast at the Elkader Keystone Bridge built in 1889 to replace an old iron truss bridge which was declared unsafe. Looking southwest on Main Street in Elkader. 1914 postmark.
PID: grinnell:15999

Title: Picturesque scenes in Fairfield, Iowa, Fairfield Public Library, West Broadway Street, Court house, Jefferson County Court House, Main Street, Fairfield Hall, Parson's College, Logan School, Library
Description: A multiview of Fairfield, Iowa, from top to bottom, left to right. Looking down a quiet residential street on West Broadway. Looking northeast at the Jefferson County Court House which was designed by H.C. Koch and constructed of brick and stone in 1891-93 at the cost of close to $74,000. The building is built in the Victorian Romanesque style. Looking North on Main Street. Fairfield Hall was designed by architect Henry K. Holsman, and completed in 1903 and contains elements of the Beaux Arts style. Logan School was built in 1890. The Fairfield Public Library is a Carnegie Library built in 1893 at a cost of $40,000 and designed in the Richardsonian Romanesque style by architect Appleton Prentiss Clark, Jr., Washington, DC. Contractor was C. Stafford, Kansas City, Kansas.
PID: grinnell:15976