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  • Collection: Council Bluffs Public Library Special Collections

Photograph of William Knox, mayor of Council Bluffs in in 1955.

Picture of the William Pusey home on Willow avenue, Council Bluffs (Iowa). Date of picture unknown.

From back of picture: "William Pusey Home. Built in 1857. Stone for it came down from Pittsburgh. Site of Library Building (Gift of Mrs. Della…

Portrait of William Ward, Early Citizens of Council Bluffs.


Photograph of the Women's Auxiliary, European War 1914-18. Partial list of names on back. Picture taken at the Hazelton home on Oakland Avenue, Council Bluffs, IA.

Photograph of the world's champion fire team. Council Bluffs Fire Deparment. Horses are Jack and Jim. Ed Walker, driver; Cole Jones, coupler; Robert Jones, coupler; A. H. Telfer, captain and William Boyne, member of the crew.

Flyer promoting the sale of U. S. Bond. Features group photographs of Company L, Company B, Unit K and Nurses of Unit K, and individual photographs of Cols. Tinley and Macrae.


Features emblems of the Red Cross, the YMCA, the I.O.B.B.…

4 photographs of the welcome home parade on Broadway for soldiers returning from World War I.

Portrait of W. W. Maynard, Early Citizens of Council Bluffs.

Streetcar builty by Omaha and Council Bluffs Street Railway Company, 1907.

Omaha and Council Bluffs Street Railway Company. Streetcar used in summer for Lake Manawa run. Left to right John Miller and John Riley Eledge.

Signs: "Omaha" and "Baseball today - Rourke Park."

Open door streetcar, Omaha and Council Bluffs Railway Company, 1911.

Summer car, Omaha and Council Bluffs Railway Company.

Ten bench summer car used for Fairmount Park and Lake Manawa. Omaha and Council Bluffs Railway Company.

Signs: "Fairmount Park" and "Storz Beer."

Omaha-Council Bluffs Railway Company Streetcar. Fairmount Park line, 1948.

Omaha-Council Bluffs Railway Company Streetcar. Fairmount Park line, 1948.

Sign: "School for Deaf."

Ten bench summer streetcar, Council Bluffs.

Cable cars (Streetcars) -- Iowa -- Council Bluffs -- Photographs.
Street-railroads -- Iowa -- Council Bluffs -- Photographs.

Interior of Omaha streetcar, 1920.

"This house is one I lived in when I was quite young. It had a lot of history, and continues to contribute to days gone by" letter from Gracie Smith Beasley.
Home of Oscar Keeline
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