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Title: Bird's eye view, Council Bluffs, Iowa, Pottawattamie County Courthouse
Description: An aerial view looking east with the Pottawattamie County Courthouse on the left in the background. This second courthouse on South Pearl Street was built in 1888 at a cost of $141,800. It was later declared unsafe and was replaced with a Modernist structure in 1977. 1908 postmark.
Date Created: 1908
PID: grinnell:16977

Title: Boat docks and pavillion, Lake Mana[v]a, Council Bluffs, Iowa, Cut-Off Lake, Lake Manawa
Description: Looking northwest at the Pavillion at the Grand Plaza which was built on the North Shore in 1885 with a saloon, restaurant and boardwalk. It was replaced by a dance hall in 1911, which burned down in 1926. The Council Bluffs Country Club can be seen in the background on the left. Lake Manawa was created in 1881 from a Missouri River flood. 1908 postmark. Number A5383.
Date Created: 1908
PID: grinnell:16884

Title: Boat landing, Mississippi River, Clinton, Iowa
Description: People gathered to board a steamer for a cruise. The Clinton Bridge is in the background. In the first quarter of a century after Clinton county was entered for settlement, it had to depend upon the river and the freight wagon, with an occasional stage coach, or horse mail-carrier, for all that it received from the outside world. 1908 postmark. Number 2553.
Date Created: 1908
PID: grinnell:14436

Title: Broad Street, Grinnell, Iowa
Description: Looking south on unpaved Broad Street with bicyclist and Congregational Church in the foreground.
Date Created: 1908
PID: grinnell:13997

Title: Brooklyn High School cheer, Brooklyn, Iowa, B.H.S.
Description: Card has small school banner with cheer: "Whoop em! Skoop em! Thru and thru. We do! We do! Why don't you? Always loyal, always true, B.H.S. scarlet and blue"--t.p.. Copyright 1908 with Acmegraph Co. Number 015.
Date Created: 1908
PID: grinnell:13918

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: Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Depot, C. R. I. & P. Depot, Monroe, Iowa
Description: Railway employees on car 3356 either loading or unloading goods onto the train. 1908 postmark.
Date Created: 1908
PID: grinnell:13883