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Title: Boat landing, Mississippi River, Clinton, Iowa
Description: People gathered to board a steamer for a cruise. The Clinton Bridge is in the background. In the first quarter of a century after Clinton county was entered for settlement, it had to depend upon the river and the freight wagon, with an occasional stage coach, or horse mail-carrier, for all that it received from the outside world. 1908 postmark. Number 2553.
Date Created: 1908
PID: grinnell:14436

Title: Central Park, Davenport, Iowa, Vander Veer Botanical Park
Description: View of children on a spring day in Central Park. In 1885 the city of Davenport acquired the property that had been the Scott County Fairgrounds. It is a significant example of landscape planning, and of the civic improvements that were being made by the city in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Five years after the land was purchased and improved it was named Central Park after New York City's park of the same name. Central Park was renamed Vander Veer after an early Davenport park commissioner in 1911. Located at 215 West Central Park Avenue, Davenport, Scott County, Iowa, the park consists of 70.8 acres, and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. 1908 postmark. Number 13206.
Date Created: 1908
PID: grinnell:16958

Title: Congregational Church, Clarion, Iowa, United Church of Christ Congregational
Description: Looking northeast at a one story wooden building with bell tower located at 121 Third Avenue NW, Clarion, Wright County, Iowa. 1908 postmark.
Date Created: 1908
PID: grinnell:14071

Title: Danbury Hotel, Danbury, Iowa
Description: View of a 3 story wooden building with front porch. 1908 postmark. Number 7.
Date Created: 1908
PID: grinnell:16963

Title: Family picnic, Clarinda, Iowa
Description: A family gathered around the picnic table outside their home near Clarinda, Iowa. 1908 postmark.
Date Created: 1908
PID: grinnell:14075

Title: First M.E. Church, Clinton, Iowa, First Methodist Episcopal Church, First United Methodist Church
Description: Looking northeast at the brick and stone church built in 1903 by John Lake & Son at a cost of $30,000. Located at 621 South Third Street, Clinton, Clinton County, Iowa. 1908 postmark. Number 15931.
Date Created: 1908
PID: grinnell:13468

Title: Holiday street scene, Climbing Hill, Iowa, Deer Run Trail, First Baptish Church
Description: Looking west on the Deer Run Trail in Climbing Hill, Iowa, with the First Baptish Church on the left. The community was named by C. E. Ostrander, the settler and postmaster. 1908 postmark.
Date Created: 1908
PID: grinnell:14035

Title: Home of "Quaker Oats", Cedar Rapids, Iowa, American Cereal Company, North Star Mill, Pepsico, Cedar River, Red Cedar River
Description: In 1873, the Stuart family from Canada and the Higley and especially the Douglas family from Cedar Rapids established an oatmeal mill (initially known as the North Star Mill). The company later adopted the name American Cereal Company and by the 1890s began to produce a product line known as "Quaker Oats". The Cedar Rapids Quaker Oats plant established its own skyline of manufacturing buildings and became one of the largest in the nation. 1908 postmark. Number 22222.
Date Created: 1908
PID: grinnell:13421

Title: Iowa and Illinois Railway between Davenport, Iowa, Rock Island and Moline, Illinois and Clinton, Iowa, Iowa and Illinois Railway Company
Description: Front says: Trains every 60 minutes. In 1910, the Iowa and Illinois Railway secured a valuable freight terminal property in Davenport, Iowa. It included an office building and a warehouse which was occupied originally by the Burlington, Cedar Rapids and Northern Railway, under a right granted to it by the City of Davenport. The property reverted to the city and was offered to the Iowa and Illinois Railway Company. 1908 postmark.
Date Created: 1908
PID: grinnell:16199