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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: Greetings from Burt, Iowa, German M.E. Church, School, Presbyterian Church, Methodist Episcopal Church, English M.E. Church, Burt United Methodist Church
Description: Montage of four building in Burt, Iowa: The English M.E. Church was built in 1889. The German M.E. Church was built in 1893. The Presbyterian Church was built in 1895. The two-story school was erected in 1893. 1909 postmark.
Date Created: 1909
PID: grinnell:13303

Title: Greetings from Cherokee, Iowa
Description: "Cherokee, thriving County Seat of almost nine thousand, in the heart of Iowa's richest agricultural area, is the largest town on the Little Sioux River. It was founded in 1856 and terrorized many times by Sioux Indians who perpetrated the Spirit Lake Massacre. Cherokee was incorporated in 1873 and named after the Indian tribe who occupied the territory." --t.p. verso. Number 9B-H552.
Date Created: 1949
PID: grinnell:13948

Title: Greetings from Cresco, Iowa, Elm Street looking north, Assumption Parochial School, Howard County Court House, St. Joseph's Parochial School, St. Joseph's Mercy Hospital
Description: Various views of Cresco, Iowa, including Elm Street, Assumption Parochial School, the Howard County Courthouse, St. Joseph's Parochial School and the St. Joseph's Mercy Hospital. 1917 postmark. Number x1476.
Date Created: 1917
PID: grinnell:16976

Title: Greetings from Elkader, Iowa, Elkader High School, Elkader Big Dam, Turkey River, Clayton County Court House, Clayton County Courthouse, St. Joseph Catholic Church, Bayless Hotel, Lovers Lane, Elkader Keystone Bridge, Main Street
Description: A multiview of Elkader, Iowa, from left to right, top to bottom. Looking at the Elkader High School built in 1876 and destroyed by fire in 1936. Looking west at the Elkader Big Dam built in 1864 and situated on the Turkey River. Looking west at the Clayton County Courthouse located at 111 South High Street, Elkader, Clayton County, Iowa. The Italianate style courthouse was constructed in 1868 and the courthouse clocktower was added in 1896. Looking south on West Bridge Street at the Bayless Hotel built in 1897 to replace the Clark House which had burned down in 1896. Looking north from a wooden boardwalk with the Elkader Keystone Bridge and the Elkader State Bank in the background. Looking northeast at the Elkader Keystone Bridge built in 1889 to replace an old iron truss bridge which was declared unsafe. Looking southwest on Main Street in Elkader. 1914 postmark.
PID: grinnell:15999

Title: Hotels in Colfax, Iowa, Mason House, Centropolis, Old Monte Colfax, The Grand, Victoria Sanitarium
Description: Looking at several hotels in Colfax, Iowa, including the Mason House, the Centropolis, the Old Monte Colfax, The Grand and the Victoria Sanitarium. Colfax is known, far and near, as "Spring City," owing to its numerous mineral springs, which are of great, medicinal virtue in the treatment of many diseases. Its large hotels call thousands here annually, for both pleasure and health. 1906 postmark.
Date Created: 1906
PID: grinnell:13317

Title: Montage of Anthon, Iowa, St. Joseph's School, Saint Joseph's School, School house, Scene on Little Sioux River
Description: Various views of Anthon, Iowa including the St. Joseph's School, the public school house and the Little Sioux River. Title supplied by cataloger.
Date Created: 1910
PID: grinnell:13302

Title: National Tournament, U.S. Army, Fort Des Moines, Des Moines, Iowa
Description: A montage of photos from the U.S. Army National Tournament held at Fort Des Moines in 1909 during President William Howard Taft's visit to Des Moines. Photos include: U.S. Army Field Kitchen, National Tournament, Des Moines, Iowa; Erecting Tents, U.S. Army Tournament, Des Moines, Iowa; Mess Time, U.S. Army Tournament, Des Moines, Iowa; President William H. Taft, National Tournament of U.S. Army, Des Moines, Iowa; "Pete", 2nd Cavalry, National Tournament, Des Moines, Iowa; Field Artillery, U.S. Army Tournament, Des Moines, Iowa; "We Belong to Uncle Sam", U.S. Army Tournament. 1909 postmark. Number 6.
Date Created: 1909
PID: grinnell:16138

Title: Picturesque scenes in Fairfield, Iowa, Fairfield Public Library, West Broadway Street, Court house, Jefferson County Court House, Main Street, Fairfield Hall, Parson's College, Logan School, Library
Description: A multiview of Fairfield, Iowa, from top to bottom, left to right. Looking down a quiet residential street on West Broadway. Looking northeast at the Jefferson County Court House which was designed by H.C. Koch and constructed of brick and stone in 1891-93 at the cost of close to $74,000. The building is built in the Victorian Romanesque style. Looking North on Main Street. Fairfield Hall was designed by architect Henry K. Holsman, and completed in 1903 and contains elements of the Beaux Arts style. Logan School was built in 1890. The Fairfield Public Library is a Carnegie Library built in 1893 at a cost of $40,000 and designed in the Richardsonian Romanesque style by architect Appleton Prentiss Clark, Jr., Washington, DC. Contractor was C. Stafford, Kansas City, Kansas.
PID: grinnell:15976