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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.
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.
PID: grinnell:13504

Title: Boone Viaduct over the Des Moines River, Boone, Iowa
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.
PID: grinnell:13379

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

Title: C.M. & St. P. Depot, Center Junction, Iowa
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.
PID: grinnell:13884

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.
PID: grinnell:14109

Title: Charles City College, Charles City, Iowa
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.
PID: grinnell:13844

Title: Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Roundhouse, Creston, Iowa
Description: Looking northeast at one of the largest roundhouses in the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy system. The Creston railroad yards were built in 1871. The old machine shop building was destroyed by a tornado in 1946, and the remainder of the roundhouse burned down in 1981. Number 3872.
PID: grinnell:16222

Title: Christian Church, Deep River, Iowa
Description: Looking southwest at a one story wooden church which was founded in 1894 and still holds the original bell in the bell tower. Located at 401 4th Street, Deep River, Poweshiek County, Iowa. Number 526.
PID: grinnell:18256

Title: Clinton Free Library, Clinton, Iowa
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.
PID: grinnell:13878