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Firstar Bank parking.tif
Firstar Bank parking lot & drive-in window. Read of 4th Street parking garage.

Bridges F577.tif
Photograph of the Simons print showing the first temporary railroad bridge across the Missouri river.


Printed at bottom of image: "First temporary bridge between C Bluffs and Omaha with first train of cars crossing, Winter of 1867."

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Postcard of residence district, First Street, Council Bluffs, IA.

Janesville_04_04_1964_001.jpg
The first of 24 trucks and 60 automobiles to arrive at the new Janesville (Wis.) Auto Transport Co. terminal at the Milwaukee Railroad yards here rolls off one of eight freight cars Saturday. Watching are Rolland L. Audas, Omaha general agent for…

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A bright sun, a heavy dew, fresh air and a few trees and shrubs beginning to turn color. What more could a guy want on the first day of autumn? The fall season officially arrived shortly after midnight Tuesday and Fred Bucknam, 427 Frank St., took…

Interstate_80_05_03_1959_002.jpg
The East End . . . of the Pottawattamie County stretch of the highway will stop somewhere in this general vicinity on the Albert Mc Crickard farm.

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The West End . . . of the initial Interstate Highway 80 construction in Pottawattamie County will be in Minor Nelson's backyard. Nelson points to the approximate spot the road will terminate.

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A new 36-car, coast-to-coast mail train departed 10 minutes early as it passed westward through Council Bluffs Saturday night. The train was to leave here at 7:15 but pulled out at 7:05. The train stopped at the former mail terminal on South…

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Map of Council Bluffs, Iowa. Drawn and Surveyed by Thomas Tostevin, Civil Engineer.

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First_Presbyterian_Church_10_11_1986_01.jpg
Top: Mrs. Duane Bogardus of Council Bluffs and the Rev. David McCalmont prepare to burn the mortgage for the First Presbyterian Church sanctuary. The mortgage will be burned Sunday during festivities marking the church's 130th…

First_Presbyterian_Church_08_05_1962_01.jpg
Know Your Scenes: This 92-year-old bell has tolled the glory of God, the call to school, and the justice of American government. Its booming peals were so loud it was retired to a life of silence in 1951. Then it was stored at a construction company…

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Postcard depicting First Presbyterian Church.

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In August of 1856 a steamboat which came up the Missouri river carried Rev. John Hancock, who became the first pastor of the First Presbyterian church; Thomas Officer, one of the church's first elders; James B. Rue and Cinncinnatus W. Boyers.
Rev.…

Griffin_Pipe1_04_08_1960_001.jpg
Signing Receipt . . . for shipment of pipe is Martin W. Flynn, right. Others are M.E. (Barney) Rew, left, and Lee Samuelson of 208 Bennet Ave., foreman at the Griffin Pipe plant.

Hotels F577b.tif
Reproduction of an engraving of the First Ogden House Hotel in Council Bluffs (Iowa).
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