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Title: East Side of Main Street Looking South, Collins, Iowa
Description: Looking south from the east side of Main Street with a barber pole in the foreground.
Date Created: 1910
PID: grinnell:16250

Title: Electric Light Plant, Earlham, Iowa
Description: Looking northeast at a one-story electric power plant built by Hill and Johnson in 1909. Number 1.
PID: grinnell:16814

Title: Elks' Building, Des Moines, Iowa, Elks Lodge
Description: Looking at the entrance to a four-story brick and stone building. Number 1590.
Date Created: 1910
PID: grinnell:16157

Title: F.C. Jones Hardware Store, Coon Rapids, Iowa, Jones Brothers Hardware
Description: Looking at the front window of the F.C.Jones hardware, implements and harness store showing snow shovels propped up in the doorway and sleds propped up outside the store. 1910 postmark.
Date Created: 1910
PID: grinnell:16984

Title: Fairmount Park, the Old Redwood Stump, Council Bluffs, Iowa
Description: The story is that the Redwood stump was hauled here many decades ago and placed in the park. It was not a solid stump, but was "a wired-together shell of the original tree--consisting mostly of bark". With the Park Board's approval the hashed-up stump was placed in Fairmount Park. Number 9051.
Date Created: 1910
PID: grinnell:16239

Title: Fairmount Park, the swan and duck pond, Council Bluffs, Iowa, Swan Pond, Graham, Andrew C.
Description: Andrew C. Graham (“father of the Council Bluffs park system"), created Swan Pond, so named after the white swans which swam there during the warm months. The pond was a popular attraction at Fairmount Park, but unfortunately, the pond no longer exists. Number 9053.
Date Created: 1910
PID: grinnell:16238

Title: Feeding the deer, Bever Park, Cedar Rapids, Iowa, Bever Park Zoo
Description: Women feeding deer through a fence at Bever Park in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Bever Park was established in 1893, after the death of prominent Cedar Rapids businessman Sampson Bever, whose family owned the wooded land. The Bever Park Zoo, which would become home to lions, bears, alligators, monkeys and other animals, opened in 1901, and trolley service to the park, then two miles outside of the Cedar Rapids city limits, began in 1904. Number 14396.
Date Created: 1910
PID: grinnell:14134

Title: Ferry "Davenport" by moonlight between Rock Island, IL and Davenport, Iowa
Description: In this night scene on the Mississippi River, the large stern wheel Ferry "Davenport" travels between Rock Island, Illinois and Davenport, Iowa, with the spotlight scanning the water. Number 568A.
Date Created: 1910
PID: grinnell:16203

Title: First Presbyterian Church, Conrad, Iowa, Conrad First Presbyterian Church
Description: Looking southeast at a two-story wooden church from Center Street. The church was built in 1908 and is located at 100 South Church Street, Conrad, Grundy County, Iowa. Title supplied by cataloger.
Date Created: 1910
PID: grinnell:16256

Title: Floyd River Scene, Alton, Iowa
Description: Looking at the Floyd River, a tributary of the Missouri River is 112 miles long and located in northwestern Iowa. It enters the Missouri River at Sioux City and is named for Charles Floyd, a member of the Lewis and Clark Expedition. 1910 postmark. Number 1735.
Date Created: 1910
PID: grinnell:14268