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Title: Academy and Catholic Church, Charles City, Iowa
Description: Three story brick and stone church building (1203 Clark Street, Charles City, Floyd County, Iowa) in the background with three story brick and stone school building in foreground. 1910 postmark.
PID: grinnell:14096

Title: Administration Building, State Reformatory, Anamosa, Iowa
Description: Looking southwest at the Administration Building, built in Romanesque, Gothic Revival. The institution was established in 1872. It is Iowa's largest prison. Listed in the National Register of Historic Places. 1910 postmark.
PID: grinnell:13489

Title: Aerial Truck, Davenport Fire Department, Davenport, Iowa
Description: View of a turn of the century fire truck pulled by 3 horses. The fire service in Davenport began in 1858 with the Hawkeye Volunteer Fire Company. The chief of this volunteer company was Chief Littler, a Civil War veteran who had one arm. In 1882, the City of Davenport established a professional, paid, fire department. They also used volunteers for three years. In 1885 the department became 100% paid professional fire fighters. The first chief of this all paid department was Chief Marsh Noel. By 1905 the City of Davenport could boast of seven pumper companies and two truck companies providing protection. 1910 postmark. Number 136.
PID: grinnell:16959

Title: Alta Opera House, Alta, Iowa
Description: Looking northwest at the opera house (pictured on the left) was a three-story brick veneer building built in 1907 and located on the Clarkson block. Title supplied by cataloger.
PID: grinnell:14274

Title: Alta Opera House, Alta, Iowa
Description: Looking west at the opera house was a three-story brick veneer building built in 1907 and located on the Clarkson block.
PID: grinnell:14273

Title: Alumni Hall, [Iowa College], Grinnell, Iowa
Description: Looking northwest. Alumni Hall (Music Building) was constructed in 1882, razed in 1958 to make room for construction of Burling Library. Cost approximately $19,100 excluding grading and landscaping. Number 934.
PID: grinnell:13531

Title: Ambulances, train wreck, March 21, 1910, Green Mountain, Iowa
Description: Ambulances lined up to transport the victims of the March 21, 1910 train wreck near Green Montain, Iowa. 1910 postmark.
PID: grinnell:14399

Title: Animal cage, Bever Park, Cedar Rapids, Iowa
Description: Visitors of all ages surrounding an animal cage. Bever Park was established in 1893, after the death of prominent Cedar Rapids businessman Sampson Bever, whose family owned the wooded land. The Bever Park Zoo, which would become home to lions, bears, alligators, monkeys and other animals, opened in 1901, and trolley service to the park, then two miles outside of the Cedar Rapids city limits, began in 1904. 1910 postmark. Number 49.
PID: grinnell:14127

Title: Arbor Lake, Grinnell, Iowa
Description: Looking northeast at shoreline with boathouse. Arbor Lake, named for Arbor Day, when hundreds of trees were planted there, was created in 1902 as a storage reservoir to provide soft water for manufacturing firms.
PID: grinnell:14497