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A document about railway transportation in Iowa published as a reference aid for teachers and students in conjunction with the Iowa Centennial in 1946.

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The Golden Spike Centennial Issue published in Transportation News. Published by United Transportation Union.

Train cars in the Union Pacific rail yard with the Union Pacific Transfer depot in the background.

"Chief Red Cloud didn't want the 'Iron Horse' because it 'scared away the buffalo.'"

Caption written on the reverse side.

Gone Are the Days! Scene at the Union Pacific Railroad depot at 'Omaha City,' taken September 12, 1868.

The Streamliner 'City of Los Angeles'; the Chicago and North Western - Union Pacific high speed eleven car streamline train started from Chicago this morning (Friday, May 1st) on a trial run to Omaha. It is shown as it stood in the North Western…

Union Pacific Railroad yards in Council Bluffs, looking towards the southwest. The road in the foreground where the railroad tracks cross is Ninth Avenue. The Golden Spike Monument is at middle right.

On the reverse side: "Workers on the U.P. exchanging picks and shovel for rifles to repel an Indian attack."

Unloading railroad supplies on the banks of the Missouri River in Omaha in 1865.

An article titled "Railroads in Council Bluffs" by Andrew McMillen

Written for Council Bluffs Public Schools - March 20, 1936

Part of "Transportation and Council Bluffs: A Supplement to Iowa History"

Letter written Nathaniel Ranney from his brother Nathan Ranney.

A panel discussion featuring State Representative MaryAnn Hanusa, Congresswoman Cindy Axne, Senator Joni Ernst and members of the AAUW: Loess Hills Branch of Iowa.

The year 2020 marks the 100th anniversary of the passage of the 19th Amendment,…

A panoramic photograph of Council Bluffs in 1916.

A photograph of the Iowa State Hospital for the Insane in Clarinda, IA.

Burial details and map for the Kinsman section of the Fairview Cemetery. Researched by Roy D. Linn - Graves Officer, William Kinsman Camp #23 - Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War.

Photograph of the West Side of Main Street. Three story building in foreground is the only one still standing. Occupied for many years by E. H. Lougee & Co.

Photograph of view on Willow Avenue.

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Photograph of view on Third Avenue looking West.

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Photograph of view on Oakland Avenue.

Photograph of view from Fairview Cemetery. Skyline of Omaha as it appeared in 1887.
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