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Title: Multiview of Elberon, Iowa #1, Looking southwest on Main Street, Water tower, Main Street, Wolf Creek, Methodist Episcopal Church, Elberon United Methodist Church
Description: A multiview of Edgewood from left to right, top to bottom. Looking southwest on Main Street at several people standing in front of a store with a ice cream and soda water sign; Edgewood water tower; dirt road; looking northeast on Main Street; train passing under a wooden bridge, bridge over Wolf Creek; looking south on Main Street; looking southeast at the Methodist Episcopal Church built in 1900. Elberon, Iowa was named in honor of the eastern suburb of New Jersey where President James Abram Garfield was assassinated in 1881. The town was incorporated in October 1883.
PID: grinnell:16920

Title: North Main Street, Earlham, Iowa, North Chestnut Avenue
Description: Looking at a two-story brick building with a garage sign out front and a boy standing in the garage entrance. Number 4.
PID: grinnell:16811

Title: Public square, Eldora, Iowa, Hardin County Courthouse, Hardin County Court House
Description: Looking south from Edgington Avenue at a Victorian Romanesque brick and stone building built in 1892 by T. D. Allen, architect, and J.F. Atkinson, builder. Number 3.
PID: grinnell:16797

Title: Schiele Brothers, Durant, Iowa, Schiele, Arthur, Schiele, Roy, McLean Blacksmith and Machine Shop, McClean, Rash
Description: Looking at long row of businesses in Dunlap, Iowa. Arthur and Roy Schiele purchased the building in 1906 from William Bierkamp and in 1907 Arthur purchased Roy’s interest and operated there until 1912. He carried a full line of farm machinery, buggies, wagons and automobiles. 1909 postmark.
PID: grinnell:16819

Title: Street scene, Eagle Grove, Iowa, West Broadway Street
Description: Looking northwest on West Broadway Street at several businesses including on the right Leuthold & Hinkley Clothing who dealt in hats and general clothing lines was opened in 1913 by John Leuthold and Guy A. Hinkley, Christeson & Jensen Grocery Store, Schoonover Brothers Grocery, owned by Harry and Howard Schoonover, a drugstore, and the Princess Theatre opened in the early 1910s and refurbished in April 1918, and the Ray E. Roper Hardware Store in the left foreground. Number 5815.
PID: grinnell:15099

Title: Street scene, Eldora, Iowa, Washington Street
Description: Looking north on Washington Street with the The First National Bank built in 1917 by Proudfoot, Bird and Rawson from Des Moines and a drug store on the left, and the Newcomer Building and H.W. Emeny Auto Company on the right. Number 666.
PID: grinnell:16798

Title: U.S. Post Office, De Witt, Iowa, De Witt City Hall
Description: Looking northeast from Ninth Street. The building was completed in 1937. Located at 510 Ninth Street, De Witt, Clinton County, Iowa. Number E-61.
Date Created: 1945
PID: grinnell:16947

Title: Union Electric Company's Station and loop at Union Park, Dubuque, Iowa
Description: Incorporated on August 13, 1900, to provide electric power to Dubuque, the Union Electric Company was the successor of Hill Street and West Dubuque Steam Railway Company, Dubuque Street Railway Company, Dubuque Light and Traction Company, Star Electric Company, and the Home Electric Company. Union Park, operated by the company, was the only park of its type in the United States maintained exclusively by a street railway company. After Union Electric made many improvements such as new rail cars, a new car barn and power station, and a manufacturing plant, Dubuque Electric Company took over the operation in 1916. No. 165
Date Created: 1910
PID: grinnell:15560

Title: Warnecke's De Witt Cafe, De Witt, Iowa
Description: Looking at the inside of a 1950s cafe with tables and chairs, booths and a bar with stools. Verso says: Warnecke's De Witt Cafe, 903 Sixth Ave., Highway 61, De Witt, Iowa 'Air Conditioned', 'Just Good Food' Prime beef center of the world. Open every day except Monday. Bee and Harold Warneck, proprietors. 1956 postmark. Number 21624.
Date Created: 1956
PID: grinnell:16071