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  • Collection: Council Bluffs Public Library Special Collections

Civil War C585.jpg
Group photograph of General Grant and other Civil War officers. Left to right: Unknown, Col. Adam Badeau, Gen. John A. Rawlins, Gen. F.T. Dent (standing), Col. Peter Henderson, Col. J.T. Rowers (standing), Gen. U.S. Grant, Col. W.L. Duff, Unknown,…

Public Utilities C589a.jpg
Photograph of City Water Office, 35 North Main.

Business C589c.jpg
Photograph of Old City Roller Mill at Washington Ave. and Bryant. Picture taken about 1897. Features three people in a cart pulled by a donkey. Driver is Miss Cora Hitchcock, now Mrs. C. B. Matthai of Omaha and Miss May Snyder. This mill was built in…

Business C589a.jpg
Photograph of the Council Bluffs City Mills building, J. C Hoffmayr proprietor. A brief history of the mill is on the back of the photograph.

Business C589b.jpg
Photograph of the City Roller Mills, 1881. Brief history of the mill appears on the back of the photograph.

Hotels C589.jpg
Photograph of the City Hotel on Broadway, with people on the porch and deck.

Government C589b.jpg
Photograph of the Council Bluffs (Iowa) city hall taken from Corner of Pearl and Willow. The city hall building was constructed in 1939.

Mayors C437a.jpg
Photograph of Charles B. Jacquemin, mayor of Council Bluffs in 1875.

Mayors C354.jpg
Portrait of Caleb Baldwin, Early Citizens of Council Bluffs

Mayors C478b.jpg
Portrait of Calchill E. Stone, Early Citizens of Council Bluffs.

Broadway B879k.jpg
Two photograph of a large crowd on Broadway, Council Bluffs (Iowa).

DeForest, Lee B766.jpg
Photograph of bronze bust of Dr. Lee De Forest. E. N. Pickerill and Frederic Allen Williams also pictured.

E. N. Pickerall, 4 Weybridge Road, Meneola, L.I., N.Y.

Theaters B763.jpg
Photograph of the Broadway Theater, Council Bluffs.
Billboard reads: "Colleen Moore in "Why be good" - Three Vitaphone Vodvil Comedy Acts."

Churches B363c.jpg
Photograph of the exterior of Broadway Methodist Church, Council Bluffs (Iowa).

Broaway B763h (2).jpg
Photograph of Broadway in Council Bluffs, 1864. Looking west from 4th street.

Broadway B763e.jpg
Photograph of Broadway looking east from 6th street.

Broadway B763c.jpg
Photograph of Broadway street at night looking west from 4th street.

Business B694.jpg
Photograph of Boyer Coal and Coke, with trucks lined up out front.

Societies C686a.jpg
Photographs of the Council Bluffs bookfellows.

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Business B584b.jpg
Photograph of the Bluff City Laundry in Council Bluffs (Iowa) with delivery trucks lined up outside.
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