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Title: Auditorium, Cedar Rapids, Iowa
Description: Looking at an auditorium. The stone at the top says it was built in 1898. Number 1346.
Date Created: 1905
PID: grinnell:13504

Title: Bethany Church, Belle Plaine, Iowa, Bethany United Evangelical Church
Description: The Bethany Church was dedicated on December 9, 1894, costing $2,500. Number 21850.
Date Created: 1905
PID: grinnell:13916

Title: Boone Viaduct over the Des Moines River, Boone, Iowa, Kate Shelley High Bridge, Kate Shelley Memorial High Bridge, Boone High Bridge, Chicago & Northwestern Railroad viaduct, Boone Viaduct
Description: "Boone Viaduct over the Des Moines River, four miles west of Boone, Iowa, on main line of Chicago & Northwestern Railway. Length 2,685 feet. Height 185. 5,600 tons of Steel. Length of center span 300 feet. Largest Double Track Bridge in the World." --t.p. The Pratt deck truss bridge was built in 1899-1901, designed by the Chicago and Northwestern Railroad and constructed by the American Bridge Co. (Ambridge, PA). It is located in the Boone-Ogden Cutoff and crosses the Des Moines River at a point where the bluffs on either side are about 3000 feet apart. The bridge was nicknamed for the Iowa railroad heroine, Kate Shelley, also spelled Shelly. In 1881, when she was 17 years old, Kate Shelley risked her life to warn a passenger train by crossing the Des Moines River Bridge near Moingona at night, during a thunderstorm. Her goal was to warn the passenger train that the next bridge was out. That train had already been stopped. She then led rescuers to two men still in the swollen, flooded Honey Creek near her house, and they were saved. Her bravery was heralded in many newspapersListed in the National Register of Historic Places.
Date Created: 1905
PID: grinnell:13379

Title: Church of the Emmaculate Conception, Cedar Rapids, Iowa, Immaculate Conception Parish, Church of the Immaculate Conception
Description: Looking at the Immaculate Conception Church which is the oldest Catholic parish in Cedar Rapids. The old wood building on 3rd Avenue SE and 7th Street SE was replaced in the early 1870s by a larger brick building seen here to serve the Catholic population of the city. By the turn of the twentieth century, the growing parish demanded even larger facilities. A new site at 3rd Avenue SE and 10th Street SE was purchased in 1914 and a new building was built in 1915. Number 2768.
Date Created: 1905
PID: grinnell:13776

Title: Clinton Free Library, Clinton, Iowa, Clinton Public Library
Description: Funded by Andrew Carnegie for $45,000, the Clinton Free Library was constructed in 1904 by architects Patton and Miller, Chicago. The building is located at 306 8th Avenue South, Clinton, Clinton County, Iowa, and listed in the National Register of Historic Places. 1905 postmark.
Date Created: 1905
PID: grinnell:13878

Title: Creamery, Bridgewater, Iowa, Bridgewater Creamery Company
Description: Looking at a two-story brick building with smoke stack on left and child standing in front of the building. This is the first Bridgewater Creamery building built in the late 1800's.
Date Created: 1905
PID: grinnell:14168

Title: Depot, Belle Plaine, Iowa, Chicago & North Western depot, Chicago and Northwestern Depot
Description: Looking southeast. The smaller building on the left is the baggage building and the larger building is the depot.
Date Created: 1905
PID: grinnell:13891

Title: Depot, Chelsea, Iowa
Description: Locomotive sitting at the Chelsea Depot with passengers milling around. Grain elevator in background. The Northwestern Railroad leased the Chicago, Iowa and Nebraska Railroad in 1869. A.A. McChesney was the first station agent when the railroad was built and James Hanify the first section boss.
Date Created: 1905
PID: grinnell:14092

Title: East Washington Street, Brighton, Iowa
Description: Looking east on Washington Street with what appears to be a monument located in the middle background. Brighton is the oldest town in Washington County, Iowa. Number 2369. No. 1.
Date Created: 1905
PID: grinnell:14165

Title: East side Main Street, Atkins, Iowa, Atkins Post Office
Description: Looking northeast at a one-story wooden post office on the right established in 1902 in Atkins, Iowa.
Date Created: 1905
PID: grinnell:14236