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Title: County farm, Lucas County, Chariton, Iowa, Lucas County Farm
Description: The Lucas County Home was built in 1904 and torn down in 1986. County homes or poorhouses were tax-supported residential institutions to which people were required to go if they could not support themselves.
Date Created: 1905
PID: grinnell:13736

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: Dr. Turner's Sanitarium [Rest Home], Colfax, Iowa, Turner Sanitarium and Rest Home, Turner, Lewis C.S., Turner, Alice B.S.
Description: Doctors Alice Turner and Lewis Turner were the proprietors of the sanitarium "where one is taught to get well by natural methods." The Rest Home had a spring on the property and was a convenient three blocks from the depot. In 1911, the Rest Home was sold to Dr. C. M. Porter and was operated in conjunction with the Porter Brother's General Hospital. The Rest Home was destroyed by fire in February 1928. Number 9700.
Date Created: 1905
PID: grinnell:14588

Title: Dry goods store, Chapin, Iowa, Chapin Post Office, Meat market
Description: From left to right: Chapin Post Office, a meat market with a sign for Edison Records and dry goods store with sign selling shoes, rugs, suits, coats, etc., "Must be sold regardless of price within 30 days. You will find some real bargains". Chapin was platted in 1858 by Josiah Bushnell Grinnell, who had previously founded Grinnell, Iowa. Josiah Bushnell Grinnell gave this new town the name Chapin, the maiden name of his wife. A post office was established in 1860 with H.H. Grinnell as the postmaster.
Date Created: 1905
PID: grinnell:14107

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

Title: Greetings from the Iowa State Capitol, Des Moines, Iowa
Description: Looking east at the Iowa State Capitol building which was completed in 1886 at a cost of $3,296,256, and, and at the time, was the only five-domed capitol in the country. The Weidenmann Project's Centennial Fountain in the foreground was designed by architect John Weidenmann of New York City and completed in 1892. The capitol building is located at 1007 East Grand Avenue, Des Moines, Polk County, Iowa and listed on the National Register of Historic Places. 1905 postmark. Number 5.
Date Created: 1905
PID: grinnell:16093

Title: High school, Baldwin, Iowa
Description: Two-story brick high school building with bell tower. Built in 1897.
Date Created: 1905
PID: grinnell:14218

Title: High school, Baldwin, Iowa
Description: Two-story brick high school building with bell tower. Built in 1897.
Date Created: 1905
PID: grinnell:14217

Title: I.O.O.F. & Opera House, Adair, Iowa, Independent Order of Odd Fellows Hall, IOOF and Opera House
Description: Two story building with observation tower.
Date Created: 1905
PID: grinnell:13775

Title: Iowa River bridge, Belle Plaine, Iowa, South Bridge
Description: The Iowa River lattice through truss bridge was located just south of Belle Plaine, Iowa. Number E9363.
Date Created: 1905
PID: grinnell:14195