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Title: Archer Depot, Archer, Iowa, Illinois Central railroad depot
Description: Looking east at a two story wooden building with Archer printed on the side with railroad workers, including ticketmaster, on platform with trailer.
Date Created: 1915
PID: grinnell:13778

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: Bridge and river, Belle Plaine, Iowa, Iowa River
Description: Old truss bridge across the Iowa River near Belle Plaine, Iowa. 1907 postmark.
Date Created: 1907
PID: grinnell:13772

Title: C. & N.W. shops, Belle Plaine, Iowa, Chicago & North Western shops, Chicago & North Western Railroad shops
Description: Chicago & North Western railroad shops in Belle Plaine, Iowa with a railroad locomotive on a turntable. 1908 postmark.
Date Created: 1908
PID: grinnell:13447

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, Belle Plaine, Iowa, Chicago and Northwestern Depot, Chicago & North Western railroad depot
Description: Looking southwest. The first building on the left is the baggage building and the second building is the depot. The house just beyond the depot is the Burley House, owned by Mrs. B.B. Burley. Two railroad employees are standing near the tracks on the right.
Date Created: 1908
PID: grinnell:13889

Title: Dirt road, Belle Plaine, Iowa
Description: Dirt road with utility poles on the right near Belle Plaine, Iowa. 1907 postmark.
Date Created: 1907
PID: grinnell:14189

Title: Donahue [sic] or Cutler Bridge spans North River and completed 1871, Bevington, Iowa, Cutler-Donahoe Bridge
Description: Wooden covered bridge over the North River near Bevington, Iowa. Built in 1870 by Eli Cox of Ohio, the Cutler-Donahoe Bridge is a covered lattice through truss, 79 feet in length, and features a pitched roof. Originally located over the North River, it was moved to the Winterset City Park in 1970. Number 206-B.
Date Created: 1965
PID: grinnell:13873

Title: Fall Oil Company on highway[s] 30 and 69, Ames, Iowa, McGee Motor Company
Description: The Fall Oil Company was located southwest of Walnut and Lincoln Way at 508 Lincoln Way.
Date Created: 1943
PID: grinnell:13713

Title: Frozen form pillars, Iowa River, Belmond, Iowa, Main Street Bridge
Description: Wintery scene of the frozen Iowa River looking at a Lost Pratt through truss bridge in the background. The bridge was replaced in 1977. 1908 postmark.
Date Created: 1908
PID: grinnell:14178