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  • Collection: Council Bluffs Public Library Special Collections

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."

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

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

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

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.…

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.


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.

Portrait of William Ward, Early Citizens of Council Bluffs.

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…

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

Portrait of William H. M. Pusey, Early Citizens of Council Bluffs.

Portrait of William H. Folsom, Early Citizens of Council Bluffs.

Photograph of William Groneweg, mayor of Council Bluffs in 1887.

Photograph of William C. James, mayor of Council Bluffs in 1874 and 1880.

Portrait of William Boyd Allison.

Photograph of William A. Byers, mayor of Council Bluffs in 1944 and 1946.

Stereograph image of West Broadway street in Council Bluffs (Iowa) from 4th street.

Photograph of Wayne Teller, mayor of Council Bluffs in 1957.

Photograph of teacher and four children at the Washington Avenue Red Cross School for Crippled Children. No names given.

Photograph of Walter R. Vaughan, mayor of Council Bluffs in 1881, 1884 and 1885.
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