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Painting of Council Bluffs by George Simons.

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Painting of Council Bluffs by George Simons.

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Postcard picturing the Council Bluffs Municipal Band. Partial list of names on back.

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Photograph the Council Bluffs Public Library. Corner of Willow and Pearl.

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Two postcards of Council Bluffs laundry businesses.

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The Charter . . . of the Labor Temple Association is inspected Wednesday by Arene Hansen, Harlan Hughes and Jack O'Hara. The temple is closing its doors after 25 years.

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Looking At Scrapbook . . . commemorating 50 years of the Council Bluffs Jaycees are, seated, John f. "Jack" Wilcox Jr., the first president, and David L. Long, 1983-84 president.

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Two "Webs" Of "Film" . . . come off the press at Howard Plastics, Inc., under the watchful eye of Donald Christensen, 919 1/2 S. Main St.

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Printed Plastic . . . is folded and sealed into a 'tube" by Miss Ruby Obradovich of 1527 Fifteenth Ave.

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One of the two greenhouse plants operated by Fred L. Lainson is at Ninth Avenue and Twenty-ninth Street. It has 100,000 square feet of glass. A partial view is shown above.

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Specializing in sweet peas and snapdragons, C. E. Hinman operates four greenhouses (above) on McPherson Avenue. The plant has been in operation for four years.

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Eighty-five thousand square feet of glass make up the greenhouses operated by John T. Walton, 500 North Twenty-sixth street. Shown above, the Walton greenhouses were formerly the Reams plant. The transfer of the property by sale was by the Harry C.…

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Frank L. Lainson, wholesale and retail florist, operates two separate plants. The above is a section of the one on Canning street, which has 150,000 square feet of glass.

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The Frank Hecht nursery is one of the beauty spots of Council Bluffs. Twenty years ago the tract on which the nursery is located consisted of brush-covered hills and trash-filled hollows. In the spring the hills about the nursery are covered with…

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One mile east of Council Bluffs on highway No. 7 are to be found the greenhouses of George Wilcox and sons. Principal products of the plant are vegetables. There are five greenhouses.

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This "ocean of glass" at 1132 East Pierce street represents fifty-four of the fifty-six greenhouses operated by J.F. Wilcox and sons. The business was established in 1867.

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The two-story modern office building and a portion of the Henry Meyer Greenhouse, 3142 West Broadway, are shown above.

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Photograph of the Council Bluffs Iron Works, machine shop
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