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Title: Princess passenger boat, Clear Lake, Iowa
Description: The Touristville Boat Livery's Princess passenger boat had daily boat tours and on Sunday. 1957 postmark. Number 23909. Series C-403. Copyright 1957, L.L. Cook, Co.
Date Created: 1957
PID: grinnell:14050

Title: Roadway at Arnolds Park, Iowa, Lake Okoboji
Description: Looking southeast on US Highway 71 at an automobile service station with gasoline pumps on the left crossing East and West Okoboji Lake. Number 172.
Date Created: 1925
PID: grinnell:13745

Title: Robin's Lake, Cedar Rapids, Iowa, Robbins Lake
Description: Looking west at Robbins Lake, a 28-acre lake located near the Cedar River in Northwest Cedar Rapids. It houses the Manhattan/Robbins Lake Park. 1946 postmark. Number 2258.
Date Created: 1946
PID: grinnell:14119

Title: Sailboats racing, Clear Lake, Iowa, Yacht racing
Description: Spectators watching the sailboat race on Clear Lake. Number A-446.
Date Created: 1945
PID: grinnell:14051

Title: Scene from north shore, Clear Lake, Iowa
Description: Looking at several boat docks on Clear Lake's north shore. Number P-404.
Date Created: 1950
PID: grinnell:14046

Title: Speedboat, Clear Lake, Iowa
Description: Tourists enjoying a speedboat ride on Clear Lake. From about 1935 to 1955, speedboat rides were a major part of Clear Lake's everyday business during the busy tourist seasons. Number E-285.
Date Created: 1945
PID: grinnell:14052

Title: Stevens Beach Souvenir Stand, Okoboji Lake, Arnolds Park, Iowa, Lake Okoboji
Description: Souvenir stand advertising "parking, popcorn, peanuts, papers, posts and periodicals", cottages for rent, and a soda fountain on the way to Stevens Beach at Lake Okoboji. 1911 postmark.
Date Created: 1911
PID: grinnell:13746

Title: Vanderveer Park, Davenport, Iowa, Vander Veer Botanical Park
Description: In 1885 the city of Davenport acquired the property that had been the Scott County Fairgrounds. It is a significant example of landscape planning, and of the civic improvements that were being made by the city in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Five years after the land was purchased and improved it was named Central Park after New York City's park of the same name. Central Park was renamed Vander Veer after an early Davenport park commissioner in 1911. The park consists of 70.8 acres, is located at 215 West Central Park Avenue, Davenport, Scott County, Iowa, and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. 1918 postmark.
Date Created: 1918
PID: grinnell:18455

Title: Yacht racing on beautiful Clear Lake, Clear Lake, Iowa
Description: Spectators watching the yacht races from the docks. 1952 postmark. Number 66032. Copyright 1952., L.L. Cook Co.
Date Created: 1952
PID: grinnell:14053