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Railroad switch engine pulling off stuck truck on west side of North Western RR city depot, about 4 p.m.

Looking East on Broadway from Eleventh Street, Council Bluffs, IA

The Poudre in flood, looking west from the Oak Street Bridge, May 21, 1904

Mosquito Creek in foreground, showing levee break into gasoline tanks farm.

Proposed Missouri River development plan, 1971

First Harnessing of Missouri River . . . in South Dakota was completed this year at Fort Randall Dam. All Missouri River water is now flowing through tubes in main embankment at left. Closure section built this year is at center. - Army Photo

Invading the Missouri River . . . near Pierre, S.D., is Oahe Dam, now 5 percent complete. Pyramid of earth in upper center is completed 1,500-foot section of dam. Sheet pile cut-off wall shown being driven in trench to right of square embankment…

View of the Missouri River west of Council Bluffs during the flood of 1881

View of Council Bluffs during the Missouri River flood of 1881

View of Council Bluffs during the Missouri River flood of 1881

Looking west from side of bluff between 10th and 11th Avenue (back of 3rd Street School House). Flood of April 25, 1881.

Today...there have been additions and deletions. The grocery warehouse has become the Morphy Drug Co. and a parking lot occupies the spot where the other two brick buildings were located. Magarrell and Co., heating contractors, fill the spots used…

Looking up Main Street toward Broadway this was the picture in 1887. Groneweg and Schoentgen were wholesale grocers. other businesses occupied the two buildings immediately north of the grocery warehouse. The wooden building with the horse tied in…

Today...a modern building, remodeled in 1938, has replaced the old brick terminal. The hotel is gone. Diesel trains from eight of the nations leading railroads pull into the unloading sheds where the mail is thrown into automatic converyers[sic]. …

This is the Council Bluffs Mail Terminal as it appear in 1887, when it was known as the Union Pacific Transfer. A hotel, one of the finest in the nation, was housed in the three-story brick building. It was patronized largely by railroad workers…

Today...the same residence is owned by Mrs. Mary Loper. The projection in the rear has become a separate building, occupied by Mr. and Mrs. J.C. Budatz.

The A.B. Walker home stood at 705 Sixth Ave. in 1887. Building had an iron pipe fence around it. Streets were unpaved. Walker was a real estate dealer.

Things Have Changed...since large brick home [of George A. Keeline ] was torn down. Now standing on the site is the home of City Building Inspector Oscar Biesendorfer. The tree has grown.
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