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Parades C468b.tif
Photograph of a stagecoach in the Council Bluffs Centennial Parade.

Horse Barn.tif
Five photographs of buildings near Playland Park. Several were from the Centennial Exhibition of 1936.
Horse and Cattle Barn
Sheep Barn
Home Show Building
Poultry and Swine Building
and 4H Girls Exhibit Building

Fire_Dept_Fire_Stations_File2_03_25_1976_01.jpg
Sprucing up a centennial bell at the Oak Street Fire Station are B Shift members Capt. Jerry Carter, Firefighter Don Owens and Engineer Larry Olson. The bell was cast for the Bluffs Fire Department in 1876 and originally hung in the old Central Fire…

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Burnie Kirkpatrick, caretaker at Fairview Cemetery checks one of the 27 grave stones which were overturned Thursday night by vandals. It will take several days to reset the stones Kirkpatrick said. Crews are also getting the cemetery ready for…

Celebration of Life Choir
formerly: C.B. Community Chorus

Iowa_State_Univ_03_24_1968_001.jpg
This is where Iowa State University started in 1868. On paper, the University was 10 years old before a preparatory class of 72 students enrolled in the fall of 1868. Regular classes began in March, 1868. The Main Building housed the entire college,…

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Four photographs of Cedar Motel

Council_Bluffs_Savings_Bank_05_10_1981_019.jpg
Inspecting A Case...of original Baldwin and Dodge banknotes is Ron Searcy. The 1856 notes will be among several historical exhibits displayed in the Council Bluffs Savings Bank lobby this week as part of the bank's 125th anniversary celebration.

Ak_Sar_Ben_Bridge_04_11_1980_01.jpg
The object . . . of the Council Bluffs Park Board's efforts the next few weeks will be this three-pillared Ak-Sar-Ben Bridge pier, on which is proposed a two-story, quasi-public building. --Nonpareil Photo.

Industry_CB_08_10_1952_002.jpg
Future Home . . . of Central Woodworking Company of Omaha is being built at Thirtieth St. and First Ave. The $22,500 structure will be completed in about a month.

Industry_CB_08_10_1952_001.jpg
City's Furniture Industry . . . includes Canar Manufacturing Company. Employees Stanley Oliwecki and William Wagner (foreground) are upholstering couches.

Ford_Roy_V_FordVan&Storage_01_29_1961_001.jpg
After The Fire . . . firemen pull down weakened wall of the former George A Hoagland & Co. lumberyard at 724 S. Main St.

Council_Bluffs_Schools_Early_08_30_1962_037.jpg
Preliminary Plans...for the proposed Catholic high school are discussed by Dr. J. P Cogley, general lay chairman; James Loftus, architect; the Rt. Rever. Msgr Thomas J. Costin, pastor of St. Francis Church, and the Very Rev. Albert L. Davidsaver,…

Catholic Church--General
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