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Title: "We Like Center Point. So Will You", Center Point, Iowa, C.R.I. & P. Station and Commercial Park, Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Station, First M.E. Church, First Methodist Episcopal Church, Center Point Canning Factory, Ditching for the water works mains, Main Street looking south, Commercial Park, High school building
Description: Montage of 8 Center Point, Iowa landmarks including the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad Station, Commercial Park, Center Point Canning Factory, High school building, Methodist Episcopal church, ditching for the water works mains, and Main Street. 1913 postmark.
Date Created: 1913
PID: grinnell:13390

Title: East side, Main Street, Center Point, Iowa
Description: Looking southeast at the business district of Center Point, Iowa with a view of the meat market, meals & lodging sign, barber pole and two street cars which have been superimposed on the postcard. Number 7
Date Created: 1913
PID: grinnell:14110

Title: Hercules Manufacturing Company, Centerville, Iowa
Description: Looking northeast at Hercules Manufacturing which evolved from a patented stump puller created in 1901 by Miles Batemen and B.A. Fuller. In 1911, "The largest plant of its kind in the world" was built" and placed at the east side of 21st Street at the junction of the Burlington and Rock Island Railroads. Verso says "Hercules Triple Stump Puller and High Grade Crucible Steel Castings". 1915 postmark. Number R-39938.
Date Created: 1913
PID: grinnell:14457

Title: High school, Corning, Iowa, Corning High School
Description: View of the entrance to a two-story brick school building built in the late 1890's at a cost of $10,250. 1913 postmark. Number 39822.
Date Created: 1913
PID: grinnell:16247

Title: M. and St. L. train wreck, March 10, 1913, near Albion, Iowa, Iowa River, Minneapolis and St. Louis train wreck
Description: Photo of men, women, and children viewing the wreck of the Twin Cities Limited near Albion on March 10, 1913. The wreck was apparently due to a washout of the Iowa River.
Date Created: 1913
PID: grinnell:13694

Title: Mercy Hospital, Des Moines, Iowa
Description: Looking at Mercy Hospital founded by the Sisters of Mercy in 1893. This building was located on the northwest corner of 4th and Ascension. In 1907, it could accommodate 125 patients and today Mercy has 802 beds and more than 6,600 employees. It is the longest continually operating hospital in Des Moines. 1913 postmark.
Date Created: 1913
PID: grinnell:16141

Title: New S. & L. Building, Des Moines, Iowa, New Savings and Loan Building
Description: Looking at the National Life Savings and Loan Building. 1913 postmark.
Date Created: 1913
PID: grinnell:18815

Title: North Street West, Alburnett, Iowa
Description: Looking west on North Street with clerk being paid by a customer. The North Side Hotel is shown in the background. Alburnett was incorporated in 1912.
Date Created: 1913
PID: grinnell:14280

Title: Victoria Sanitarium, Colfax, Iowa, Victoria Sanitorium
Description: A picturesque, red brick colonial building, with spacious white porches, situated on one of the beautiful wooded hillsides of Colfax. Built in 1904, when Florence Brown Sherbon, A. M., M. D., her husband, John Bayard Sherban, M. D., and her father James Brown, incorporated the Victoria Sanatorium and Mineral Spring. 1913 postmark. Number 12321.
Date Created: 1913
PID: grinnell:13612