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Five-year-old Billy Lueth ponders the big and small of dogdom as he comes face to face with two patients being treated by his grandfather, Dr. J.A. Lueth, a Council Bluffs veterinarian. "George," a 100-pound St. Bernard pup, is owned by Clarence…

Sixteen postcards depicting the pavilion at Lake Manawa.

Bluffs Arts Council officials unveiled this color drawing Tuesday of the proposed performing arts pavilion members hope to build on the north side of Bayliss Park in downtown Council Bluffs. The three=phase building project would cost an estimated…

Postcard of the Pavilion at Lake Manawa

Photograph of the Lake Manawa Pavilion.

Workmen for Dugdale Construction Co. lay steel in preparation for paving of the half-mile link that will complete the Interstate Highway necklace around Council Bluffs. Paving at the Union Pacific Railroad underpass will probably start Thursday.…

Jim Presnell, resident construction engineer for the Iowa Highway Commission, said Friday work on paving Interstate Highways 29 and 80 between Highway 192 and the Missouri River is "progressing very satisfactorily". Paving on the ramp at Highway 192…

Consists of drawings made by Simons during railroad survey projects in Iowa and Nebraska beginning in 1853.

Pawnee Indian Village on South side of Platte River near Fremont Nebraska.

Presenting new gloves . . . to Pottawattamie Animal Welfare Society Director Nancy Burton and Fritz Flammang, president of the PAWS board of directors, is Virgil Eades, general manager of Great Plains Beef Co. The gloves made of steel mesh, will…

A sign on the first tee at the Dodge Park Golf Course offers a reminder Thursday that spring is only 21 days away, but a fresh blanket of snow turns the greens of the course white.

Examining His Check . . . from Beefland International is Kenny Rostermundt of Manilla. Other workers crowd the gate at the closed plant to get the remainder of their pay.. There were a lot of disappointed faces.

This Modernistically...designed edifice is the house of worship for the Church of the Brethren congregation and is located at 2605 Avenue E.

The Rev. Charles Lunkley...looks over spacious sanctuary of new edifice. It will comfortably seat 250 plus overflow accommodations.

Few travelers stop to see them during the winter so the buffalo, elk and deer get to eat their meals in peace these days at Botna Bend Park at Hancock. In this scene, the animals crowd around a pile or [sic] loose hay at the north end of the park. …

Photograph of Pearl Street from Broadway. West side. New State Savings Bank building built on this corner in 1946.

Postcard. Looking North on Pearl Street from Court House, Council Bluffs, Iowa.

Postcard of Pearl Street looking North from Bayliss Park.

Postcard of Pearl Street, looking north from the Council Bluffs Public Library.

Photograph of Pearl Street, looking south.

Bob Bensley admires his flag creation. "It took 10 years to find just the right shade of colors," he said. Bensley used 901 pencils to make his creation.
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