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Title: Band Stand, Union Park, Des Moines, Iowa, Bandstand
Description: Union Park was established in 1896 at East 9th Street and Thompson Avenue as one of Des Moines' original five parks. The park was part of the old Thompson farm and started with sixteen acres of land. 1908 postmark. Number 6452.
Date Created: 1908
PID: grinnell:16848

Title: Band stand, Central Park, Charles City, Iowa
Description: Woman and child sitting on the Central Park bandstand. The third block (Block 9) from the river along Mill Street (now North Main Street) was envisioned by city planners, Joseph and Malinda Kelly to be the center of the city so he set it aside as the public square, and it has ever since remained open as public land and park. It is now named Central Park. Central Park is listed on the National Register of Historic Places as part of the North Main Street Historic District. 1918 postmark. Number A-58774.
Date Created: 1915
PID: grinnell:14572

Title: Birdland at Union Park, Des Moines, Iowa
Description: A view from Birdland Drive near the Des Moines River. Number 6447.
Date Created: 1910
PID: grinnell:18828

Title: Buffalo, Greenwood Park, Des Moines, Iowa, Ashworth Park
Description: View of four Buffalo roaming Greenwood Park in the winter. Greenwood Park was the first official large park in Des Moines purchased by park commissioners in 1894. Located at 4500 Grand Avenue, Des Moines, Polk County, Iowa. 1909 postmark. Number 6443.
Date Created: 1909
PID: grinnell:18550

Title: Central Park, Davenport, Iowa, Vander Veer Botanical Park
Description: View of children on a spring day in Central Park. In 1885 the city of Davenport acquired the property that had been the Scott County Fairgrounds. It is a significant example of landscape planning, and of the civic improvements that were being made by the city in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Five years after the land was purchased and improved it was named Central Park after New York City's park of the same name. Central Park was renamed Vander Veer after an early Davenport park commissioner in 1911. Located at 215 West Central Park Avenue, Davenport, Scott County, Iowa, the park consists of 70.8 acres, and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. 1908 postmark. Number 13206.
Date Created: 1908
PID: grinnell:16958

Title: City park and gazebo, Alden, Iowa, Iowa River
Description: Two-story wooden gazebo overlooking the Iowa River with two girls sitting on a bench. The town of Alden was incorporated in 1879. 1909 postmark. Number 4. Title supplied by cataloger.
Date Created: 1909
PID: grinnell:14279

Title: City park, Montezuma, Iowa
Description: View of small log cabin with a sign "Tourists Please Register" posted on the side. Number B-289.
Date Created: 1940
PID: grinnell:18244

Title: Clinton Park, Clinton, Iowa
Description: Flowers are in bloom at Clinton Park. The original plat of Clinton set aside square blocks as the city parks named Clinton Park to the north and DeWitt Park to the south with each corner anchored by a significant church. 1918 postmark. Number R-63617.
Date Created: 1918
PID: grinnell:14430

Title: Drive in Union Park, Des Moines, Iowa
Description: View of garden in Union Park which is located at 725 Thompson Avenue, Des Moines, Polk County, Iowa. 1912 postmark. Number 6417.
Date Created: 1912
PID: grinnell:18829

Title: Dunnings Spring, Decorah, Iowa, Dunning's Spring
Description: Dunning's (named after E.C. Dunning who originally owned the property in 1861) Spring, water originates near the base of the Galena Aquifer. The much less permeable Decorah Shale - the confining bed “floor” for the aquifer - is near the land surface, forcing the water to discharge from the wall of the Upper Iowa River Valley. The result is the picturesque falls. The groundwater issuing from the spring is flowing through an open, cavernous conduit, formed by the solutional enlargement of fractures. Number 1A1681.
Date Created: 1931
PID: grinnell:16180