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Title: Albert, World's Largest Bull, Audubon, Iowa
Description: Albert, World's Largest Bull. Built by the Audubon Jaycees, the concrete and steel structure is 30 feet tall, and 15 feet across the horns, and weights 45 tons.--t.p. verso. Located of of U.S. Highway 71 South, Audubon, Audubon County, Iowa. 1969 postmark. Number DT-5011-C.
Date Created: 1969
PID: grinnell:14229

Title: Alumni Hall, Iowa State College, Ames, Iowa, Christian Association Hall, YMCA Building, Iowa State University
Description: Looking south at Alumni Hall located at 2433 Union Drive, Ames, Story County, Iowa. The Colonial Revival building was constructed in 1904-1907 through the combined efforts of the College, the YMCA, and the Alumni Association. Listed in the National Register of Historic Places. Number 8319-N.
Date Created: 1915
PID: grinnell:13348

Title: Aurelia High School building, Aurelia, Iowa
Description: Two story wooden high school building built in 1883 and torn down in 1922. 1911 postmark.
Date Created: 1911
PID: grinnell:14468

Title: Baxter Junior Band, Baxter, Iowa
Description: Baxter Junior Band showing 14 members holding instruments. Second from the left standing is Wesley Krampe as stated on verso. 1908 postmark.
Date Created: 1908
PID: grinnell:14213

Title: Belle Plaine Fire Department at work, Belle Plaine, Iowa, Northern Grain Company
Description: Fire fighters fighting a grain elevator fire in Belle Plaine, Iowa. Two fire engines are pictured. Grain elevator in the background says Northern Grain Company. 1908 postmark.
Date Created: 1908
PID: grinnell:14204

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: Bob's Tip-Top Restaurant, Ames, Iowa, Tip Top Lounge, Bob's Tip Top Lounge
Description: "Restaurant at Junction of U.S. Highways 30 and 69, Ames, Iowa."--t.p. verso. Mr. and Mrs. Robert Jones opened Bob's Tip Top Sandwich Shop in 1949, a popular restaurant along the Lincoln Highway. It was later purchased by Jim Overturg, who dropped the Bob from the name and transformed it into a lounge. It is now a popular hangout for both college students and Ames residents. Located at 201 E Lincoln Way, Ames, Story County, Iowa. 1955 postmark.
Date Created: 1955
PID: grinnell:14253

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