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Title: Albia's variety store, Albia, Iowa, A & A Shoe Store
Description: Looking southwest at a three-story brick building with fire escape. The A & A Shoe Store is on the right. Number 6951.
Date Created: 1955
PID: grinnell:14284

Title: Central Avenue, Correctionville, Iowa, Anderson Garage, Manhattan Café, Driftwood Street
Description: Looking north on Central Avenue, now called Driftwood Street, at the Anderson Garage to the left and Manhattan Café on the right. Correctionville was platted in 1855, and it was so named from its location on a surveyors' correction line. Number 17106.
Date Created: 1910
PID: grinnell:18329

Title: Clark Hotel, Albia, Iowa, Hotel Clark, Monroe Hotel
Description: Looking southeast at the Clark Hotel on Clinton Street. There are Western Union and AAA signs near the entrance. In 1932, O.A. Clark of Clarinda bought the Monroe Hotel from J.C. Stevens and changed the name to Hotel Clark. 1932 postmark. Number 0841.
Date Created: 1932
PID: grinnell:14463

Title: Continental Hotel, Centerville, Iowa, Hotel Barber Shop, E.A. Travis, Proprietor
Description: Looking southeast at the second, three-story, brick Continental Hotel which was rebuilt in 1893 after a fire destroyed the original building. Hotel Barber Shop, E.A. Travis, Prop. is printed on the awning. The building was restored in 1996 by Morgan Cline and it operates as an upscale hotel and is home to a leading restaurant in the area. It is located at 217 North 13th Street, Centerville, Appanoose County, Iowa. 1915 postmark. Number A-53171.
Date Created: 1914
PID: grinnell:14586

Title: Courthouse, Creston, Iowa, Union County Court House, Union County Courthouse
Description: Looking northwest at the third courthouse built in Union County. After several attempts to move the county seat from Afton to Creston, the courthouse was located in Creston and completed in 1890 at a cost of $22,000. It was replaced by the current courthouse, built in 1952, at 300 North Pine Street, Creston, Union County, Iowa. Number 70898.
Date Created: 1916
PID: grinnell:14685

Title: Cumberland Savings Bank, Cumberland Iowa
Description: Looking at a one-story wooden building with a Notary Public sign near the front door. The Cumberland Saving Bank was organized on January 7, 1905, with a capital stock of $10,000. Edgar S. Harlan was the founding president of the bank. V.E. Benedict, a photographer, was from Cumberland, Iowa. 1908 postmark. Title supplied by cataloger.
Date Created: 1908
PID: grinnell:16968

Title: Hildreth Hotel, Charles City, Iowa
Description: Looking northwest at the three story brick Hildreth Hotel was built in 1893 by Azro Benjamin Franklin (A.B.F.) Hildreth who was a successful entrepreneur and member of the Iowa State Board of Education and the Iowa General Assembly. The building was destroyed by fire in the 1930s and was located at 401 N. Main Street, Charles City, Floyd County, Iowa. 1911 postmark.
Date Created: 1911
PID: grinnell:14594

Title: Junior-senior high school, built 1931-1932, Charles City, Iowa, Charles City Middle School, Charles City Junior High School
Description: The original building at this location was built in 1899 but was destroyed by a fire in 1931 and rebuilt in 1932 at 500 North Grand Avenue, Charles City, Floyd County, Iowa.
Date Created: 1933
PID: grinnell:13894

Title: Kessel Hospital, Cresco, Iowa, Kessel, George, Howard County Hospital, Regional Health Services of Howard County, St. Joseph's Mercy Hospital
Description: The Kessel Hospital was founded by Dr. George Kessel, Grinnell College graduate, in 1902 and was the first hospital in Northeast Iowa. Dr. Kessel converted the home into a hospital. The Kessel Hospital became St. Joseph's Mercy Hospital in 1910 and was used as a nurses training school, the Howard County Hospital in 1974, and is now under the umbrella of Regional Health Services of Howard County. It is located at 235 Eighth Avenue West, Cresco, Howard County, Iowa. 1908 postmark. Number 463.
Date Created: 1908
PID: grinnell:16972

Title: Lincoln Monument, Council Bluffs, Iowa, Dodge, Grenville M., Lincoln, Abraham, U.S. President
Description: Looking northwest at the pylon erected in July 1911 commemorating Abraham Lincoln's visit to the site in 1859. From this site, Lincoln, along with Grenville M. Dodge, viewed and selected the location for the eastern terminus of the nation's first transcontinental railroad. 1923 postmark. Number 16275.
Date Created: 1923
PID: grinnell:16229