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Title: Air view of Council Bluffs, Iowa, Aerial view of Council Bluffs, Iowa, Bayliss Park
Description: Looking northeast at an aerial view of Council Bluffs, Iowa. Bayliss Park is in the right-hand corner of the image. Verso: Council Bluffs, located in Southwestern Iowa, near the geographical center of the U.S.A. has a population of nearly 50,000. Its history goes back to 1804 when Lewis and Clark held council with the Indians on the high bluffs overlooking the Missouri River. 1964 postmark.
Date Created: 1964
PID: grinnell:16243

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, Council Bluffs, Iowa, Pottawattamie County Courthouse
Description: An aerial view looking east with the Pottawattamie County Courthouse on the left in the background. This second courthouse on South Pearl Street was built in 1888 at a cost of $141,800. It was later declared unsafe and was replaced with a Modernist structure in 1977. 1908 postmark.
Date Created: 1908
PID: grinnell:16977

Title: Birdseye view, Conrad, Iowa, Bird's eye view, Main Street, Phoenix Building, Conrad State Bank
Description: Looking northeast from South Main Street in Conrad, Iowa, with the Phoenix Building housing the Conrad State Bank and a wooden water tower in the background. In 1894, a fire broke out and destroyed nearly every downtown building. The town rebuilt immediately, replacing wood frame structures with brick buildings. Known for its rich black dirt, Conrad claims to be the "Black Dirt Capital of the World. 1916 postmark. Number 108.
Date Created: 1916
PID: grinnell:16986

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: Business section, Alta Vista, Iowa, Walters Hardware, Conway Bros., Conway Brothers
Description: Looking southeast at several stores including Walters Hardware, Conway Brothers, and the Alta Post Office. Alta Vista, Iowa, was incorporated in 1894. Number 12.
Date Created: 1918
PID: grinnell:13370

Title: Busy day, Cumberland, Iowa
Description: Looking south on a bustling Main Street at a millinery shop and variety store on the left and the bank on the right with a church steeple in the background. 1911 postmark.
Date Created: 1911
PID: grinnell:16218

Title: Corner Walnut and Howard , Colfax, Iowa
Description: Looking southeast from North Walnut Street with lunch room and billiards room in the foreground and the Hotel Centropolis in the background. 1908 postmark. Number 9475.
Date Created: 1908
PID: grinnell:14428

Title: Cumberland Savings Bank, Cumberland Iowa
Description: Looking at a one-story wooden building with a Notary Public sign near the front door. The Cumberland Saving Bank was organized on January 7, 1905, with a capital stock of $10,000. Edgar S. Harlan was the founding president of the bank. V.E. Benedict, a photographer, was from Cumberland, Iowa. 1908 postmark. Title supplied by cataloger.
Date Created: 1908
PID: grinnell:16968

Title: Dry goods store, Chapin, Iowa, Chapin Post Office, Meat market
Description: From left to right: Chapin Post Office, a meat market with a sign for Edison Records and dry goods store with sign selling shoes, rugs, suits, coats, etc., "Must be sold regardless of price within 30 days. You will find some real bargains". Chapin was platted in 1858 by Josiah Bushnell Grinnell, who had previously founded Grinnell, Iowa. Josiah Bushnell Grinnell gave this new town the name Chapin, the maiden name of his wife. A post office was established in 1860 with H.H. Grinnell as the postmaster.
Date Created: 1905
PID: grinnell:14107