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Title: Animal cage, Bever Park, Cedar Rapids, Iowa, Bever Park Zoo
Description: Visitors of all ages surrounding an animal cage. Bever Park was established in 1893, after the death of prominent Cedar Rapids businessman Sampson Bever, whose family owned the wooded land. The Bever Park Zoo, which would become home to lions, bears, alligators, monkeys and other animals, opened in 1901, and trolley service to the park, then two miles outside of the Cedar Rapids city limits, began in 1904. 1910 postmark. Number 49.
Date Created: 1910
PID: grinnell:14127

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: Fairmount Park, the Old Redwood Stump, Council Bluffs, Iowa
Description: The story is that the Redwood stump was hauled here many decades ago and placed in the park. It was not a solid stump, but was "a wired-together shell of the original tree--consisting mostly of bark". With the Park Board's approval the hashed-up stump was placed in Fairmount Park. Number 9051.
Date Created: 1910
PID: grinnell:16239

Title: Fairmount Park, the swan and duck pond, Council Bluffs, Iowa, Swan Pond, Graham, Andrew C.
Description: Andrew C. Graham (“father of the Council Bluffs park system"), created Swan Pond, so named after the white swans which swam there during the warm months. The pond was a popular attraction at Fairmount Park, but unfortunately, the pond no longer exists. Number 9053.
Date Created: 1910
PID: grinnell:16238

Title: Feeding the deer, Bever Park, Cedar Rapids, Iowa, Bever Park Zoo
Description: Women feeding deer through a fence at Bever Park in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Bever Park was established in 1893, after the death of prominent Cedar Rapids businessman Sampson Bever, whose family owned the wooded land. The Bever Park Zoo, which would become home to lions, bears, alligators, monkeys and other animals, opened in 1901, and trolley service to the park, then two miles outside of the Cedar Rapids city limits, began in 1904. Number 14396.
Date Created: 1910
PID: grinnell:14134

Title: Green Wood Park, Des Moines, Iowa, Greenwood Park, Ashworth Park
Description: View of a meeting near a pavilion in Greenwood Park. 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. 1910 postmark.
Date Created: 1910
PID: grinnell:18552

Title: Greenwood Park, Des Moines, Iowa, Ashworth Park
Description: View of flower garden and walking trail at Greenwood Park. Greenwood Park was the first official large park in Des Moines purchased by park commissioners in 1894. 4500 Grand Avenue, Des Moines, Polk County, Iowa.
Date Created: 1910
PID: grinnell:16865

Title: Observation tower, Eagle Point Park, Clinton, Iowa, The Castle, Joyce's Park
Description: Eagle Point Park has 164 acres overlooking the Mississippi River and General Zebulon Pike Lock and Dam (No. 11). The look-out tower, built by the WPA, is also known as "The Castle".
Date Created: 1910
PID: grinnell:13346

Title: Pavilion, Central Park, Davenport, Iowa, Vander Veer Botanical Park
Description: 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. The park consists of 70.8 acres, is located at 215 West Central Park Avenue, Davenport, Scott County, Iowa, and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Number 2414.
Date Created: 1910
PID: grinnell:18453