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Title: Alta State Bank, Alta, Iowa
Description: A corner view of a two-story brick building with Doctor Johnson's office and a barber pole on the left and a telegraph office and shoe store on the right. Number 8.
Date Created: 1912
PID: grinnell:14272

Title: Bird's eye view looking northwest from Equitable Building, Des Moines, Iowa, St. Paul's Episcopal Church, Cathedral Church of Saint Paul, St. Ambrose Cathedral
Description: Looking northwest at several churches located in downtown Des Moines including St. Paul's Episcopal Church and St. Ambrose Cathedral which are listed on the National Register of Historic Places. 1912 postmark. Number 1754.
Date Created: 1912
PID: grinnell:16167

Title: Birdseye view, Dana, Iowa, Dana, Samuel, Bird's eye view
Description: Aerial view of Dana, Iowa, with a shoe store on the right foreground and a church bell tower in the center background. Dana was incorporated in 1907 and was named after Samuel Dana, a pioneer settler who was a godfather in the project of establishing a trading center in the early days. 1912 postmark. Number 7.
Date Created: 1912
PID: grinnell:16214

Title: Electrical storm at Alton, Iowa, Alton Star Restaurant, Alton Savings Bank
Description: Looking west at the business district during an evening storm in Alton, Iowa. Note the restaurant sign on the left and the hardware and bank signs on the right. One photo is transposed onto another. 1912 postmark. Number 1734.
Date Created: 1912
PID: grinnell:14267

Title: Gordon Block, Castana, Iowa, M.L. Gordon Store
Description: Looking at the business district in Castana, Iowa, including a racket, millinery, and dry goods store. 1912 postmark. Number 2.
Date Created: 1912
PID: grinnell:13677

Title: Looking southwest on Main Street, Allerton, Iowa, Farmers National Bank, Dougherty & Merritt, Grocers
Description: Looking southwest at the Farmers National Bank, Dougherty & Merritt, Grocers, and a restaurant in downtown Allerton before the 1927 fire which destroyed six buildings. 1912 postmark. Title supplied by cataloger.
Date Created: 1912
PID: grinnell:13459

Title: Street scene, Chester, Iowa, Brincken Drug Company, Brincken, Anton, Chester Post Office
Description: Corner view of the Brincken Drug Company originally owned Anton Brincken and the Chester Post Office in the background. 1912 postmark.
Date Created: 1912
PID: grinnell:13912

Title: Street scene, Farnhamville, Iowa
Description: Looking northwest at various businesses from Foster Street down Garfield Avenue. Farnhamville was platted in 1881 under the name Farnham, named in honor of R. E. Farnham, a railroad official. Postal authorities refused to accept the name Farnham, so town was renamed Farnhamville when the post office opened later in 1881.Farnhamville was incorporated as a city in 1892. 1912 postmark.
Date Created: 1912
PID: grinnell:16772

Title: West side Main Street, Dougherty, Iowa, McAloon, Solbert & Martinek Dry Goods and Grocery Store
Description: Looking southeast at the McAloon, Solberg & Martinek Dry Goods and Grocery Store. The town of Dougherty was first named Prairie in 1870, but in 1871 the name was changed to Dougherty in honor of its first settler, Dan Dougherty. The town was incorporated in 1900. 1912 postmark.
Date Created: 1912
PID: grinnell:16836