Photograph of Iowa School for the Deaf before the fire, 1902. The first main building suffered a tornado and four fires until it burned to the ground in 1903.
Once An Infirmary...this structure, completed in 1906 at the cost of $25,000, is now the dormitory for primary students. The building is shown near the completion of construction, before a small cupola topped it off.
An Elegant Barn...and 18 Holstein cows graced the school's farm in 1910. On 220 acres were several buildings, corn fields, pastures, a large orchard, vineyard and truck farm. The barn burned down somewhere around 1930.
Four of a large group of students who came from Ames to work with other volunteers are shown here hefting sandbags into an army truck at the Golden Horse diner on South Omaha road. Left to right are John Peck of Garner; Leon Kruse of Tipton; Roger…