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Upper Reservoir - Water Works - Fairmount Park
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.
View Across Lake Manawa
Photograph of a view across Lake Manawa.
View from Fairview Cemetery
Photograph of view from Fairview Cemetery. Skyline of Omaha as it appeared in 1887.
View on Oakland Avenue
Photograph of view on Oakland Avenue.
View on Third Avenue, West
Photograph of view on Third Avenue looking West.
View on Willow Avenue
Photograph of view on Willow Avenue.
West Side of Main Street
Photograph of the West Side of Main Street. Three story building in foreground is the only one still standing. Occupied for many years by E. H. Lougee & Co.
Old soldiers section - Kinsman area - Fairview Cemetery - Council Bluffs, Iowa
Burial details and map for the Kinsman section of the Fairview Cemetery. Researched by Roy D. Linn - Graves Officer, William Kinsman Camp #23 - Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War.
Iowa State Hospital for the Insane. Clarinda, IA.
A photograph of the Iowa State Hospital for the Insane in Clarinda, IA.
Union Pacific Locomotive File 1
Unloading railroad supplies on the banks of the Missouri River in Omaha in 1865.
Union Pacific Locomotive File 1
On the reverse side: "Workers on the U.P. exchanging picks and shovel for rifles to repel an Indian attack."
Union Pacific Locomotive File 1
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.
Union Pacific Locomotive File 1
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…
Early History of Union Pacific
Gone Are the Days! Scene at the Union Pacific Railroad depot at 'Omaha City,' taken September 12, 1868.
Union Pacific Locomotive File 1
"Chief Red Cloud didn't want the 'Iron Horse' because it 'scared away the buffalo.'"
Caption written on the reverse side.
Caption written on the reverse side.
Union Pacific Locomotive File 1
Train cars in the Union Pacific rail yard with the Union Pacific Transfer depot in the background.