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Title: Baxter Junior Band, Baxter, Iowa
Description: Baxter Junior Band showing 14 members holding instruments. Second from the left standing is Wesley Krampe as stated on verso. 1908 postmark.
Date Created: 1908
PID: grinnell:14213

Title: Belle Plaine Fire Department at work, Belle Plaine, Iowa, Northern Grain Company
Description: Fire fighters fighting a grain elevator fire in Belle Plaine, Iowa. Two fire engines are pictured. Grain elevator in the background says Northern Grain Company. 1908 postmark.
Date Created: 1908
PID: grinnell:14204

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: Fresh-soph tug of war, Iowa State College, Ames, Iowa, Freshman-sophomore tug of war, Iowa State University
Description: A college-sponsored freshman-sophomore tug of war tournament held in 1908 on campus in a trench dug near the athletic field. 1908 postmark.
Date Created: 1908
PID: grinnell:13491

Title: Main Street, Avoca, Iowa
Description: Looking north at the Opera House Block with the bank building on the right and the opera house on the left with the cupola on top. 1908 postmark.
Date Created: 1908
PID: grinnell:14224

Title: Rock Island Depot, City Hotel & Elevators, Avoca, Iowa, Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Rail Road Co.
Description: Depot with carts and milk cans on platform with grain elevator in the left background and hotel in the right background. 1908 postmark.
Date Created: 1908
PID: grinnell:14221

Title: View of campus, Iowa State College, Ames, Iowa, Iowa State University
Description: The electric trolley replaced the "Dinkey" in 1907. The "Dinkey" was a railroad steam line that connected the campus to the town. 1908 postmark. Number 63.
Date Created: 1908
PID: grinnell:13768

Title: Work of tornado July 26, 1908 at Arthur, Iowa
Description: Remains of a tornado that hit Arthur, Iowa, July 26, 1908. Men are sifting through debris with a cow grazing nearby. 1909 postmark.
Date Created: 1908
PID: grinnell:14238