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Title: Aerial view of Banker's Life, Des Moines, Iowa, Principal Financial Group, St. Paul's Episcopal Church, Cathedral Church of Saint Paul
Description: Looking northwest. Verso says: Aerial view of Banker's Life, 4 of Des Moines, Iowa's 193 churches, the Telephone Building and Television towers looming in the background. St. Paul's Episcopal Church is circled in red. Number 65696.
Date Created: 1945
PID: grinnell:16166

Title: Bankers Life Company, home office building, Des Moines, Iowa, Principal Financial Group
Description: Looking northeast from High Street. Verso says: The Bankers Life Company, established in 1879 by Edward Temple, a pioneer Iowa banker in the best life insurance company west of the Mississippi River. Located at 711 High Street, Des Moines, Polk County, Iowa. 1947 postmark. Number 0B-H565.
Date Created: 1945
PID: grinnell:14680

Title: Hotel Savery Rocket Room, Des Moines, Iowa, Savery Hotel, Savery III, Renaissance Des Moines Savery Hotel
Description: The Rocket Room was originally a coffee room remodeled into a restaurant. Looking northwest at an eleven-story limestone and brick building that rises 140 feet (43 m) above the ground. H.L. Stevens & Co. designed the current 233-room hotel in the Colonial Revival style and it was the third Savery Hotel to be built in Des Moines, opening in 1919. It was later rebuilt in 1930 and renovated extensively in 1999 and in 2016-2017. Verso says: "A Tangney-McGinn Hotel, Home of Famous Food, 'Rocket Room', Bring Your Convention to Des Moines". Located at 400 Locust Street, Des Moines, Polk County, Iowa and listed in the National Register of Historic Places. Number 32484N.
Date Created: 1945
PID: grinnell:16938

Title: Hotel Savery, A Boss Hotel, Des Moines, Iowa, Savery Hotel, Savery III, Renaissance Des Moines Savery Hotel
Description: Looking northwest at an eleven-story limestone and brick building that rises 140 feet (43 m) above the ground. H.L. Stevens & Co. designed the current 233-room hotel in the Colonial Revival style and it was the third Savery Hotel to be built in Des Moines, opening in 1919. It was later rebuilt in 1930 and renovated extensively in 1999 and in 2016-2017. Verso says: "Hotel Savery, A Boss Hotel, 350 Attractive Fireproof Rooms with Both 3 Air-Conditioned Restaurants, omplete Air-Conditioned Convention Facilities". Located at 400 Locust Street, Des Moines, Polk County, Iowa and listed in the National Register of Historic Places.
Date Created: 1945
PID: grinnell:16855

Title: Looking west along the Walnut Street Bridge, Des Moines, Iowa
Description: Looking northwest at the closed-spandrel arch bridge over the Des Moines River. The bridge was built in 1911 by John Wheeler Construction Company of Geneva, Illinois and Marsh Engineering Company of Des Moines, Iowa. It's total length is 503.3 feet. Verso says: Des Moines, Iowa Looking West Along Walnut St. Bridge in Foreground, Locust St. Bridge in Background Showing Library, Post Office, Equitable Bldg., Television Towers, Hotels Kirkwood, Savery and Brown, YMCA, and Insurance Exchange Buildings. Number 70792.
Date Created: 1945
PID: grinnell:18900

Title: Skyline, Des Moines, Iowa, Bankers Life Building, Younkers, Equitable Life Building
Description: Looking northeast at the Bankers Life Company building on the left, the Younkers Building in the center, and the Equitable Building on the right. On verso: "Skyline, Des Moines, Iowa, as seen from the Fort Des Moines Hotel. Des Moines is the industrial, commercial governmental, political, insurance, publishing and financial center of America's greatest food-producing state." Number 65682.
Date Created: 1945
PID: grinnell:16164