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Title: Depot, Chelsea, Iowa
Description: Locomotive sitting at the Chelsea Depot with passengers milling around. Grain elevator in background. The Northwestern Railroad leased the Chicago, Iowa and Nebraska Railroad in 1869. A.A. McChesney was the first station agent when the railroad was built and James Hanify the first section boss.
Date Created: 1905
PID: grinnell:14092

Title: Dr. Turner's Sanitarium [Rest Home], Colfax, Iowa, Turner Sanitarium and Rest Home, Turner, Lewis C.S., Turner, Alice B.S.
Description: Doctors Alice Turner and Lewis Turner were the proprietors of the sanitarium "where one is taught to get well by natural methods." The Rest Home had a spring on the property and was a convenient three blocks from the depot. In 1911, the Rest Home was sold to Dr. C. M. Porter and was operated in conjunction with the Porter Brother's General Hospital. The Rest Home was destroyed by fire in February 1928. Number 9700.
Date Created: 1905
PID: grinnell:14588

Title: Greetings from the Iowa State Capitol, Des Moines, Iowa
Description: Looking east 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 Weidenmann Project's Centennial Fountain in the foreground was designed by architect John Weidenmann of New York City and completed in 1892. The capitol building is located at 1007 East Grand Avenue, Des Moines, Polk County, Iowa and listed on the National Register of Historic Places. 1905 postmark. Number 5.
Date Created: 1905
PID: grinnell:16093

Title: High school, Clear Lake, Iowa
Description: Pencil sketch of the three-story brick and stone high school building. The Romanesque building was built in 1855 and burned down in 1912. It was located at 800 Second Avenue North, Clear Lake, Cerro Gordo County, Iowa. Number 8.
Date Created: 1905
PID: grinnell:14474

Title: I.O.O.F. & Opera House, Adair, Iowa, Independent Order of Odd Fellows Hall, IOOF and Opera House
Description: Two story building with observation tower.
Date Created: 1905
PID: grinnell:13775

Title: Lyons Bridge over the Mississippi River, Clinton, Iowa, Lyons-Fulton Bridge, Lincoln Highway Bridge, North Bridge
Description: Built in 1891 with a wooden deck, the Lyons Bridge spanned the Mississippi from Clinton (then Lyons), Iowa to Fulton, Illinois. It was replaced in 1933 with a metal grate (Lincoln Highway Bridge).
Date Created: 1905
PID: grinnell:13506

Title: Peep at the Mississippi, Clinton, Iowa, Mississippi River
Description: Scenic view of the Mississippi River. Clinton is on the western shore of the Mississippi River and is the easternmost city in Iowa. The Upper Mississippi River National Wildlife and Fish Refuge pass through Clinton along the river. Series 2155.
Date Created: 1905
PID: grinnell:14433

Title: Public school, Chillicothe, Iowa
Description: School children & school staff standing in front of a two-story wooden school house with bell tower. 1905 postmark.
Date Created: 1905
PID: grinnell:14081

Title: Rawson School, Corning, Iowa
Description: Looking at the entrance to a three-story brick and stone building built in 1882. Number 71.
Date Created: 1905
PID: grinnell:16981

Title: Sacred Heart Academy, Ackley, Iowa
Description: Two story brick building with a tower. Sacred Heart Academy was a private Catholic school which opened in 1877, staffed by two Presentation sisters and two laywomen.
Date Created: 1905
PID: grinnell:14293