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  • Collection: Council Bluffs Public Library Special Collections

Streetcars S774f.tif
Omaha/Council Bluffs Streetcar, 1916-1918.

Houses P611.tif
"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

Streetcars S774h.tif
Interior of Omaha streetcar, 1920.

Streetcars 436.tif
Cable cars (Streetcars) -- Iowa -- Council Bluffs -- Photographs.
Street-railroads -- Iowa -- Council Bluffs -- Photographs.

Streetcars S774q.tif
Ten bench summer streetcar, Council Bluffs.

Streetcars S774j.tif
Omaha-Council Bluffs Railway Company Streetcar. Fairmount Park line, 1948.

Sign: "School for Deaf."

Streetcars S774n.tif
Omaha-Council Bluffs Railway Company Streetcar. Fairmount Park line, 1948.

Streetcars S774i.tif
Signs: "Fairmount Park" and "Storz Beer."

Streetcars S774p.tif
Ten bench summer car used for Fairmount Park and Lake Manawa. Omaha and Council Bluffs Railway Company.

Streetcars S774d.tif
Summer car, Omaha and Council Bluffs Railway Company.

Streetcars S774c.tif
Open door streetcar, Omaha and Council Bluffs Railway Company, 1911.

Streetcars S774b.tif
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."

Streetcars S774o.tif
Streetcar builty by Omaha and Council Bluffs Street Railway Company, 1907.

w-w-maynard_4348955895_o.jpg
Portrait of W. W. Maynard, Early Citizens of Council Bluffs.

WWI W453c1of4.tif
4 photographs of the welcome home parade on Broadway for soldiers returning from World War I.

WWI S657.tif
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.…

Fire Dept W893.tif
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.

WWI W664.tif

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.

william-ward_4363699508_o.jpg
Portrait of William Ward, Early Citizens of Council Bluffs.

Houses W555.tif
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…
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