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Council_Bluffs_Schools_Longfellow_Elementary_and_Junior_High_03_15_1938_002.jpg
Longfellow Elementary school under construction. Sign indication that it is a project of the Works Project Administration: "P.W.A. Federal Emergency Administration of Public Works. Longfellow School Project No. IA 1480-F"

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Viewed From The North...this photo shows how the addition is attached to the main Longfellow building. Robert C. Robinson of Council Bluffs was the architect. E.C. Underwood of Clarinda was the general contractor.

Council_Bluffs_Schools_Madison_Elementary_08_29_1935_003.jpg
James Madison school, 769 Madison avenue [sic], is one of Council Bluffs' oldest grade schools.

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Photo of front of the Madison School, with date of 1892 in stone above the arch of the door.

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Checking Out Equipment . . . and trying to figure out ways of financing their operation are Bob Moon Jr., Dean Perry, Bruce Turner, Eric Nelson and Brian Perry, members of the Lewis Township Volunteer Fire Department Scuba Team.

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Moving Equipment . . . into the two-stall barn owned by the Lewis Township Volunteer Fire Department is Dave Nelson, department chief. The fire department has grown along with the township but has outgrown its fire barn.

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Emerging From The Combination Teachers'-Custodian Lounge...at Madison Avenue School is Don Hiatt, custodian. The small room is located in the basement.

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pen and pencil drawing, on onion skin paper, of Madison Avenue Elementary School.

Council_Bluffs_Schools_Myers_Elementary_School_05_13_1958_002.jpg
Viewing Plaque...honoring Ray F. Myers and other teachers are John J. Jensen, Mrs. Myers and Ray F. Myers Jr.

Council_Bluffs_Schools_Myers_Elementary_School_04_1958_002.jpg
photo of Myers Elementary school, 3657 Avenue G, from across the street. Flagpole, and young girl and adult woman walking past

Council_Bluffs_Schools_Peterson Elementary_09_15_1957_001.jpg
Light and Airy: Abandoning the customary monumental design of earlier school construction, the new 13-room Peterson grade school was given a "California" motif. The structure at Twenty-sixth Ave. and Ninth St., photographed from the northeast, is…

Council_Bluffs_Schools_Roosevelt_Elementary_08_29_1935_001.jpg
Theodore Roosevelt school, 1624 Avenue E, is one of the city's newest and most modern buildings.

Liberty_Theatre_09_07_1954_001.jpg
Liberty Theater Building . . . is purchases by A.C. Smead for $35,000.

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Rep. Jim Ross Lightfoot: "The system is not working here in Iowa."
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