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  • Collection: Council Bluffs Public Library Special Collections

Photograph of Council Bluffs riverfront with Union Pacific bridge in background

Photograph of the Union Pacific bridge over the Missouri River

Photograph of the construction of the Union Pacific bridge over the Missouri River

Photograph of women and children on Council Bluffs riverfront with Union Pacific bridge in background

Photograph of of Union Pacific bridge

Union Pacific Depot, Omaha, Nebraska. Built in 1882.

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

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

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.

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…

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

Caption written on the reverse side.

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

Union Pacific Railroad Steam Engine. Northern Class Steam Locomotive. Built in 1937 for freight and passenger service. Renumbered from 844.

Photograph of the Union Pacific Transfer. Depot and Hotel South 21st Street and Twelfth Avenue. Closed and torn down about 1935. Later site of United States Mail Terminal.

Photograph of Upper Broadway. East from approximately Fourth Street.

Photograph of Upper Reservoir, Water Works and Fairmount Park. Located at the top of Glen Avenue. Two million gallon concrete storage tank located on this site.

Aerial photograph of the Vergaminles Addition off Grand Ave.

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Photographs of the victory parade welcoming home Company L, 168th Infantry, May 20, 1919. Council Bluffs Iowa.

Photograph of Broadway street in Council Bluffs (Iowa) looking west from 4th street. Shows decorations for Victory parade welcoming home Company L, 168th Infantry, May 20, 1919.

Printed at bottom of photograph: "Spirit of C. B. Iowa - May 1919.

Photograph of the victory parade, Council Bluffs, Iowa.
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