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Title: 18th Street viaduct and bridges, Des Moines, Iowa
Description: Looking southwest from 18th Street (now Fleur Drive) at the bridge over the Raccoon River. Number 63397.
Date Created: 1940
PID: grinnell:16163

Title: Archer Depot, Archer, Iowa, Illinois Central railroad depot
Description: Looking east at a two story wooden building with Archer printed on the side with railroad workers, including ticketmaster, on platform with trailer.
Date Created: 1915
PID: grinnell:13778

Title: Barney's Smoke House, Melbourne, Iowa
Description: Looking northeast at the barbershop and smoke house on Main Street. The city of Melbourne was plotted in 1882 and incorporated in 1895. It was the only town in Marshall County to be served continuously by 2 major railroads. Title supplied by cataloger. 1918 postmark. Number 599.
Date Created: 1918
PID: grinnell:14344

Title: Birds Eye View, Chicago and Great Western Railray, Oelwein, Iowa
Description: Birds Eye View, Chicago and Great Western Railray, Oelwein, Iowa
PID: grinnell:15256

Title: Black bridge, North Dyersville, Iowa, North Fork Maquoketa River
Description: Looking at an metal arched bridge over the North Fork Maquoketa River. 1909 postmark.
PID: grinnell:14663

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