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Fort Randall Dam, Pickstown SD
A row of circuit breakers - king size fuses - in the huge switchyard at Fort Randall Dam. One of the largest in the world, the big power dispatching center is 900 feet long and 250 feet wide. Power from the generators is fed to the switchyard through…
Fort Randall Dam, Pickstown SD
Almost taxed to capacity, the 300-ton overhead crane in the Fort Randall powerhouse lowers the 548,000 pound rotor for the number one generator. First power from the Army Engineers' most advanced of the Missouri River projects will go on the line…
Foster, Stephaney Carlson
Foster, Stephaney Carlson
Founder Of Blue Star Co. Gets National Honor
David J. Kaplan
Founders Day
This some 70-year-year-ld pump organ will be used for the Founders Day services with Mr. Geri Wessels as organist. Stan Ivy, Jan Mark and Ray Mark are amazed at its good tone. Displays of items, pictures and clippings will also reflect past history…
Foundry Casts Almost Anything - It's Made In Council Bluffs . . .
A Ladle Of Molten Iron . . . is carefully poured into a mold by James Walker and Lester Goodman. After cooling, the metal will be a man-hole ring.
Foundry Casts Almost Anything - It's Made In Council Bluffs . . .
Welding An Iron Railing . . . at Katelman Foundry, is Ray e. Dietzel. Metal fabricating is one of the two major activities of the firm.
Fountain at Big Lake Park
Picture of the spring fed fountain at Big Lake Park, Council Bluffs, Iowa.
Fountain at Manhattan Beach Park
Photograph of fountain at Lake Manawa.
Fountain Break
Taking a cool break on a warm day are two youths at the Bayliss Park fountain. As hot weather approaches, the two will probably not be the last who try to wade in the cool waters even though it's against city codes.
Fountain Filled
Lamps and nozels [sic] nearly fill the main pool of the new fountain in Bayliss park that is now nearing completion and will be turned on in about a week. Contractor Ed Larsen looks over the maze of equipment that will create a screen of flowing…
Fountain Gets Ready For Winter
With winter just around the corner, Parks and Recreation employes [sic] re draining the Bayliss Park fountain of water and removing the 110 color lights and other equipment for the winter season.
Ralph Ulmer, foreground, mans the pump while Bob…
Ralph Ulmer, foreground, mans the pump while Bob…
Fountain in Bayliss Park
Photograph of the original fountain in Bayliss Park.
Fountain Youths
Through the changes in the season, through many generations, the boy and girl on the old iron fountain have kept watch over Bayliss Park. This unusual photo by Larry Sollazzo of The Nonpareil captures the pair in the fountain shower during a sliver…
Fountain, Bayliss Park
Fountain - Bayliss Park, Council Bluffs, Iowa
Fountain's return to be commemorated
The "Black Angel," near Fairview Cemetery. The statue's fountain is now flowing again. --Nonpareil Photo
Fountain's Return To Be Commemorated
The "Black Angel" near Fairview Cemetery. The statue's fountain is now flowing again.
Four Acres Is Proposed Site For Baptist Church
Looking Over Land...designated for the construction of a new Baptist Church are Dr. Allan R. Knight, Melvin Smith and William V. Renner.
Fr. De Smet Spiritual Columbus in Territory During City's Infancy
Father Pierre-Jean De Smet, Jesuit priest, who established the upper Missouri river valley's first church in a blockhouse on the present site of Council Bluffs.