Ward Bean, president of the Bluffs Arts Council, presents an artists' rendition of grounds of the Ruth Anne Dodge Memorial to Jane Peters, the council's project director for restoration of the 67-year-old bronze sculpture by Daniel Chester French,…
Franklin Youngsters...still use the playground outside their old school built in 1892. The School Board has ordered the district to reopen the old gymnasium on the right, as the new Franklin School has no gym.
Destroyed building housing the Sorey Bros. Construction Co. and the Fontenelle Frames and Upholstery Co. located along Highway 30 at the edge of Woodbine.
Photograph of the Women's Auxiliary, European War 1914-18. Partial list of names on back. Picture taken at the Hazelton home on Oakland Avenue, Council Bluffs, IA.
Police office [sic] Jan Rocher: "At first, people were surprised; they'd do a double-take, but not it's a common thing and no one thinks anything of it."
Postcard of WOGFQ radio. World Radio Laboratories, WRL, was a major supplier of amateur radio equipment from the 1950s to the 1970s. WRL was located in Council Bluffs, Iowa, USA,and run by Leo Meyerson (W0GFQ) and his family.
Touched by winter's magic artistry, the Dodge Memorial statue and fountain in Fairview cemetery were transformed into a picture of fairyland during the recent heavy snow. The angel's figure, poised on the bow of a boat resembles a fairy from an…
...by winter's magic artistry, the Dodge memorial statue and fountain ...transformed into a picture of fairyland during the recent heavy snow....of a boat, resembles a fairy from an enchanted realm in the glow.
A Wet, Sticky, Snow...Thursday night left trees in Council Bluffs outlined in white resembling a giant cottonfield [sic]. Nonpareil Chief Photographer Jack Kennedy, used a time exposure and three flashbulbs to illuminate this scene on Huntington…