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Title: 1st Presbyterian Church, Council Bluffs, Iowa, First Presbyterian Church
Description: Looking northeast at the front entrance of the First Presbyterian Church built in 1865. This building was raised and a new, larger church building was built in 1887. It was located at 634 Willow Avenue, Council Bluffs, Pottawattamie County, Iowa. 1905 postmark. Number 19.
Date Created: 1905
PID: grinnell:16979

Title: Arbor Lake, Grinnell, Iowa
Description: Looking east at shoreline with canoers and boathouse. Arbor Lake, named for Arbor Day, when hundreds of trees were planted there, was created in 1902 as a storage reservoir to provide soft water for manufacturing firms. Number 1222.
Date Created: 1905
PID: grinnell:14499

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: Busy day in Brooklyn, Iowa, Jackson Street
Description: Looking north on Jackson Street with a number of people waiting for the July 4 parade in downtown Brooklyn, Iowa. Number 10.
Date Created: 1905
PID: grinnell:13724

Title: C.M. & St. P. Depot, Center Junction, Iowa, Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Depot
Description: Single story wooden depot with sign for Center Jct. A railroad ticket clerk is standing at the corner of the building. Center Junction was once an incorporated city starting in 1871. But, following a special election that served as a referendum on the plan, the city council voted in 2015 to sell of its assets, disband, and turn administration over to the county. When the council took the action, then-Mayor Sandy Ricklefs cited the towns ailing finances as the primary reason for disbanding.
Date Created: 1905
PID: grinnell:13884

Title: Catholic Church, Creston, Iowa, St. Malachy's Church, Church of the Immaculate Conception, Holy Spirit Church
Description: The St. Malachy's Church was built in 1885. In 1905 the Church of the Immaculate Conception was cut out of St. Malachy's and relocated on Howard Street. St. Malachy's Church was located on West Union Street where the St. Malachy Catholic School resides currently. 1905 postmark.
Date Created: 1905
PID: grinnell:18449

Title: Centerville Fire Department, Centerville, Iowa
Description: Fifteen firemen and one Dalmatian in front of and on the fire equipment, pulled by two horses with the Appanoose County Court House in the background.
Date Created: 1905
PID: grinnell:14109

Title: Charles City College, Charles City, Iowa, German-English College, German-English Normal School, Administration Building
Description: Sponsored by the Northwest German Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church, the German-English College was built in 1892. The name of the college was changed to Charles City College in 1894. The Administration Building was torn down during the Depression. The college was open until 1914 when it merged with Morningside College in Sioux City.
Date Created: 1905
PID: grinnell:13844