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Title: German Evangelical Church, Dysart, Iowa
Description: Looking at a two story wooden church with corner bell tower built in 1878 at a cost of $500. 1912 postmark. Number 1.
PID: grinnell:16023

Title: High school building, Fonda, Iowa, Fonda Community High School
Description: Looking northeast at the Fonda High School which was built in 1907. It was destroyed in a fire in 1927, rebuilt in 1928, and razed in 2015. 1908 postmark.
Date Created: 1908
PID: grinnell:15960

Title: High school, Eagle Grove, Iowa, Eagle Grove High School
Description: Looking north at a four-story brick and stone building likely built before the turn of the twentieth century. 1909 postmark.
PID: grinnell:14602

Title: High school, Newton, Iowa
Description: The Newton High School was erected just west from Central school building in 1907/1908 at a cost of $72,000. It was built on the most modern and approved plans for school buildings, even to the items of sanitary drinking fountains. The building was later known as the west building of Central Junior High and in 1983 it was razed and the site sold. Number 5020.
Date Created: 1935
PID: grinnell:14326

Title: Illinois Central Depot, Dow City, Iowa, Dow City Depot, Northwestern Railroad
Description: Looking northwest at the Dow City Depot with a man standing out front. In 1867 the Illinois Central extended its track into Iowa. 1914 postmark. Number 7.
Date Created: 1914
PID: grinnell:16063

Title: Main Street West, Fertile, Iowa, Fertile Mills, Molsberry, W. I.
Description: Looking west on West Main Street at Fertile, Iowa businesses including a dentist office on the right and Fertile Mills in the background. Fertile was founded by William Rhodes, a Canadian who came to Iowa in 1858 and built a mill to process wheat into flour. 1913 postmark. Number 47.
PID: grinnell:14749

Title: Main Street looking east, Elgin, Iowa, Center Street
Description: Looking east on Center Street at the the W.H. Finke Drugstore on the right which opened around 1879. 1908 postmark.
PID: grinnell:16793

Title: Main Street, Dunkerton, Iowa, Post office
Description: Looking northeast at the post office and several businesses along Main Street in Dunkerton, Iowa. In 1853, two brothers, James and John Dunkerton, walked from Dubuque, Iowa, to stake out a claim of land near Lester. This claim became the town known as Lesterton, and later Dunkerton. 1909 postmark.
PID: grinnell:16027

Title: Methodist Episcopal Church, Dows, Iowa, Dows United Methodist Church
Description: Looking northwest at a three-story brick and stone church built in 1872. Dows, Iowa (originally named Otisville) was established in 1880 and named for a railroad contractor.
Date Created: 1940
PID: grinnell:16061