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Title: Birdseye view, Dana, Iowa, Dana, Samuel, Bird's eye view
Description: Aerial view of Dana, Iowa, with a shoe store on the right foreground and a church bell tower in the center background. Dana was incorporated in 1907 and was named after Samuel Dana, a pioneer settler who was a godfather in the project of establishing a trading center in the early days. 1912 postmark. Number 7.
Date Created: 1912
PID: grinnell:16214

Title: Main Street, Elkader, Iowa, H.W.& G.H. Wilke, Bayless Hotel
Description: Looking southwest on Main Street in Elkader with the Elkader State Bank on the far left background and the Bayless Hotel on the far right background. 1912 postmark. Number 6.
PID: grinnell:16918

Title: Street scene, Farnhamville, Iowa
Description: Looking northwest at various businesses from Foster Street down Garfield Avenue. Farnhamville was platted in 1881 under the name Farnham, named in honor of R. E. Farnham, a railroad official. Postal authorities refused to accept the name Farnham, so town was renamed Farnhamville when the post office opened later in 1881.Farnhamville was incorporated as a city in 1892. 1912 postmark.
Date Created: 1912
PID: grinnell:16772

Title: West side Main Street, Dougherty, Iowa, McAloon, Solbert & Martinek Dry Goods and Grocery Store
Description: Looking southeast at the McAloon, Solberg & Martinek Dry Goods and Grocery Store. The town of Dougherty was first named Prairie in 1870, but in 1871 the name was changed to Dougherty in honor of its first settler, Dan Dougherty. The town was incorporated in 1900. 1912 postmark.
Date Created: 1912
PID: grinnell:16836