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Title: Bad Wreck at Victor
Description: Newspaper article from the Brooklyn Chronicle describing the train wreck at Victor, Iowa, on January 18, 1902.
Date Created: 1902
PID: grinnell:27269

Title: Birds eye view of Bellevue, Iowa, St. Joseph's Catholic Church, Mississippi River
Description: Looking north at a cityscape of Bellevue, Iowa with St. Joseph's Catholic Church in the left background, train passing through in the center, and the Mississippi River in the right background.
Date Created: 1920
PID: grinnell:14180

Title: Blairstown Bank, Blairstown, Iowa, Benton County Bank, Benton County State Bank
Description: Two story brick building in Blairstown, Iowa. 1909 postmark. Number 64874.
Date Created: 1909
PID: grinnell:13917

Title: Boone Viaduct over the Des Moines River, Boone, Iowa, Kate Shelley High Bridge, Kate Shelley Memorial High Bridge, Boone High Bridge, Chicago & Northwestern Railroad viaduct, Boone Viaduct
Description: "Boone Viaduct over the Des Moines River, four miles west of Boone, Iowa, on main line of Chicago & Northwestern Railway. Length 2,685 feet. Height 185. 5,600 tons of Steel. Length of center span 300 feet. Largest Double Track Bridge in the World." --t.p. The Pratt deck truss bridge was built in 1899-1901, designed by the Chicago and Northwestern Railroad and constructed by the American Bridge Co. (Ambridge, PA). It is located in the Boone-Ogden Cutoff and crosses the Des Moines River at a point where the bluffs on either side are about 3000 feet apart. The bridge was nicknamed for the Iowa railroad heroine, Kate Shelley, also spelled Shelly. In 1881, when she was 17 years old, Kate Shelley risked her life to warn a passenger train by crossing the Des Moines River Bridge near Moingona at night, during a thunderstorm. Her goal was to warn the passenger train that the next bridge was out. That train had already been stopped. She then led rescuers to two men still in the swollen, flooded Honey Creek near her house, and they were saved. Her bravery was heralded in many newspapersListed in the National Register of Historic Places.
Date Created: 1905
PID: grinnell:13379

Title: Bridge and river, Belle Plaine, Iowa, Iowa River
Description: Old truss bridge across the Iowa River near Belle Plaine, Iowa. 1907 postmark.
Date Created: 1907
PID: grinnell:13772

Title: Brooklyn Hatchery and Produce Receipt
Description: Receipt from Brooklyn Hatchery and Produce to Wallace Breniman for hens, roosters, and ducks. Dated Nov. 10, 1944.
Date Created: 1944
PID: grinnell:27263

Title: C. & N.W. shops, Belle Plaine, Iowa, Chicago & North Western shops, Chicago & North Western Railroad shops
Description: Chicago & North Western railroad shops in Belle Plaine, Iowa with a railroad locomotive on a turntable. 1908 postmark.
Date Created: 1908
PID: grinnell:13447