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Typical Pump.tif
2 photos of a typical pump house at Playland Park. Parcel 241A.

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Firemen pour water on wreckage of the pump shed which was the scene of an explosion and fire which claimed one life.

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Two postcard depicting pumping stations and reservoirs.

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Completely sand-bagged against the threat of Missouri river flood water is the Council Bluffs waterworks pumping station, located just a few feet away from the stream. Pumping equipment inside the station is located in deep concrete pits, well below…

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Pumping Water...is the main operation now in the search for treasure aboard the sunken Bertrand. Watching pipe lifted out of deep hole is Sam Corbin, one of the two treasure hunters.

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Garage mechanics keep city equipment in first class condition. Garage Department and City Hall Maintenance come under Purchasing Agent's supervision.

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Assistant Purchasing Agents Leonard Brugenhemke tries new Civil Patrol helmet on Police Chief Earl Miller. Helmets were purchased at cost of 70¢

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U.S. Rep. Tom Harkin, D-Iowa was hard at work Friday at Iowa Nebraska Xpress truck terminal. He took the job moving freight to learn more about the transportation needs of the Council Bluffs-Omaha area, he said. Harkin gets direction from Terminal…

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Photograph of Quaker Baking Company, Council Bluffs, with trucks lined up outside.

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Photograph of the quarters of Company "C," 2nd Nebraska Volunteer Infantry at Camp George H. Thomas, Chickamanga Park.

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Adele Berry (center), senior from Fort Dodge, was crowned Iowa State University's 1966 "Queen of Queens" Thursday at Ames in ceremonies opening the annual ISU Veishea festival. Miss Berry's attendants are Janet Longston (left), junior from Memphis,…

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Getting ready . . . Queen Karen's going somewhere at last. -Nonpareil Photo.

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The old army game had already started at the Armory Saturday morning as three men from the Fairfield detachment, Jack Zierlien, John Hay, and Frank R. Danielson, settle down in a corner to guard some of the medical division's equipment.

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Federal Judge William Riley brought a $78,000 damage case to a sudden close when he ordered the jury to bring in a decision favoring Wayne Rhode of Tabor. Rhode's nephew, Lyman H. Elefson, had charged his uncle with maliciously causing his arrest in…

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Richard D. Hogan, minister of First Christian Church and president of the Council Bluffs Ministerial Association relaxes in the Quiet Room at Jennie Edmundson Hospital. The Quiet Room is a special parlor sponsored by the Ministerial Association to…

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Photograph of the creek behind Quinn's Lumber Yard on 200 and Vine in Council Bluffs, Iowa.

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