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Title: Boat landing, Mississippi River, Clinton, Iowa
Description: People gathered to board a steamer for a cruise. The Clinton Bridge is in the background. In the first quarter of a century after Clinton county was entered for settlement, it had to depend upon the river and the freight wagon, with an occasional stage coach, or horse mail-carrier, for all that it received from the outside world. 1908 postmark. Number 2553.
Date Created: 1908
PID: grinnell:14436

Title: Chicago & North Western Train Wreck, April 23, 1908, De_Witt, Iowa, Silver Creek
Description: Several men are standing in front of a train wreck. On April 23, 1908, southwest of DeWitt, Iowa, at Silver Creek, flooding weakened a bridge and gave way to stock train 132 where an engine and 17 cars of cattle fell into the water. Three crewmen perished in the wreck.
Date Created: 1908
PID: grinnell:16184

Title: Chicago and North Western Train Wreck, April 23, 1908, De Witt, Iowa, Silver Creek
Description: View of the wrecked train. On April 23, 1908, southwest of DeWitt, Iowa, at Silver Creek, flooding weakened a bridge and gave way to stock train 132 where an engine and 17 cars of cattle fell into the water. Three crewmen perished in the wreck.
Date Created: 1908
PID: grinnell:16950

Title: First M.E. Church, Clinton, Iowa, First Methodist Episcopal Church, First United Methodist Church
Description: Looking northeast at the brick and stone church built in 1903 by John Lake & Son at a cost of $30,000. Located at 621 South Third Street, Clinton, Clinton County, Iowa. 1908 postmark. Number 15931.
Date Created: 1908
PID: grinnell:13468

Title: Rock Creek at the dykes, Clinton, Iowa, Rock Creek at the dikes
Description: Women enjoying the surroundings at Rock Creek. 1908 postmark. Number 8635. PCK series.
Date Created: 1908
PID: grinnell:13662

Title: U.S. government building, Clinton, Iowa, United States government building, United States Post Office
Description: Looking southwest at the neoclassical post office building built in 1902 at a cost of $100,000. It was designed by Louis Simon and built by James Knox Taylor, Supervising Architect, U.S. Treasury Department and M. Yeager & Son, Contractor. The building is still standing as of 2016 and located at 301 Fifth Avenue South, Clinton, Clinton County, Iowa. 1908 postmark. Number 15930.
Date Created: 1908
PID: grinnell:13616