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Furniture Company Burns
An aerial ladder is rigged to shoot steady stream of water into the smoldering ruins of the General Wood Works plant at 105 S. 31st St. Firefighters Monday were working to kill fire in stacks of lumber and wood parts. Walls of the building nearest…
Future Foam, Inc.
Future Foam, former National Steel Services building in Council Bluffs, IA
Future Is Bright For 'City On The Move' - Over 500 New Industrial Jobs In Two Years
A Transformation . . . from bare land to industrial complex took place on this site in just a few years. Firms located on the Council Bluffs Industrial Foundation plot are, from left, Werner Enterprises, Pure Oil Co. and G & E Transportation Co. The…
Future Looking Brighter For Niles' Museum At Missouri Valley
Preston Niles . . . talks to visitors while standing in front of his "Stage Depot," a log cabin built in 1856 near Ames which he later had moved to form part of his museum at Missouri Valley.
Future Looking Brighter For Niles' Museum At Missouri Valley
Niles and Kenneth Acrea . . . chairman of a group to form a county historical society to preserve the museum, discuss plans inside the old cabin amid such relics as a spinning wheel, ancient guns and household items.
Future Looks Bright For Clarinda Institute
"Good New"...in the form of positive recommendations by a legislative committee may be in store for the Clarinda Mental health Institute. Pictured is the Administration Building.
Future Plans...
Future Plans...of Pottawattamie County's anit-poverty committee are discuss by Mrs. Robert Beno and Wylie King. [Photo in Nonpareil article also includes Wylie King; print photo has been cropped to include only Mrs. Beno.]
Future Progress
Future Progress...the goal of Carter Lake Mayor Gerald Waltrip. He said the city is in the process of changing its image. Among his hopes are a central city department complex.
Future Usage Justifies Improving Highway 64 - Engineers Explain $2 Million Plan
Pondering Plans . . . for a modernized Highway 64 are Clarence Russell of Weston, Raymond Kassell of Ames, Ralph Beck of Underwood and R.M. Terry of Weston.
G. M. Dodge funeral procession
Postcard photograph of General G. M. Dodge's funeral procession.
G. M. Dodge funeral procession
Postcard photograph of General G. M. Dodge's funeral procession.
G. M. Dodge funeral procession
Postcard photograph of General G. M. Dodge's funeral procession.
G.M. Dodge's engineer party on Coon River
Consists of drawings made by Simons during railroad survey projects in Iowa and Nebraska beginning in 1853.
G.M. Dodge's engineering camp near Crescent City
Consists of drawings made by Simons during railroad survey projects in Iowa and Nebraska beginning in 1853.
GM Dodge Engineer Camp in Missouri River bottom near Crescent City Iowa. Sept 1853. Rock Island RR Survey. Sketched by George Simons, cook…
GM Dodge Engineer Camp in Missouri River bottom near Crescent City Iowa. Sept 1853. Rock Island RR Survey. Sketched by George Simons, cook…
G.W. Kirn . . .
G.W. Kirn graduated from North Central College; received his Master's Degree from the University of Chicago; came to Council Bluffs in 1919 as principal of Abraham Lincoln High School; was appointed Superintendent of Schools in 1946. In 1948 he left…
Gamblers Stepped Over Line And Out Of The County
The Historic Log House . . . south of Council Bluffs between 1907 and 1918 sported a small herd of elk (almost hidden in this photo in clump of trees at left). The house, a left-over from the Trans Mississippi Exposition, has a colorful background.