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This Is Council Bluffs
One of the city's most beautiful spots is the Ruth Ann[e] Dodge memorial at Lafayette avenue and North Second street. And winter has provided an additional touch of beauty. The monument is a memorial to the wife of Gen G.M. Dodge, construction…
World-Fame Black Angel Has Perilously Close Call; By Well-Intentioned Girl Scouts
One Of Finest Works...of the late Daniel Chester French was scheduled for a paint job. It stands at Lafayette Ave. and North Second St.
Know Your Scenes
This imposing bronze figure is the city's most famous statue and, appropriately, is associated with one of the est known families in Council Bluffs history. Can you identify it? The answer appears elsewhere on this page.
Angel Lights
Colored lights mounted in surrounding tree limbs illuminate the Black Angel, near Lafayette Avenue and North Second Street. The lights were installed by the City Park Board.
The Black Angel
The Black Angel...located near Lafayette Avenue and North Second Street was dedicated to the late Mrs. Grenville M. Dodge in 1920. At that time the statue was bronze, but through the years the weather has changed her to black. Now the weather has…
Big Scoop For J Student
The Black Angel...may be turning a little green with age but it sure didn't need a coat of paint by vandals.
The monuments and memorials of Council Bluffs
The Black Angel
Arts Council begins sprucing of 'Angel'
Mayda Goodberry...a bronze expert, works at the base of the Ruth Ann[e] Dodge Memorial in Fairview Cemetery Wednesday. A restoration project is being sponsored by the Bluffs Arts Council. Nonpareil photo by Steve Glowacki
Fountain's return to be commemorated
The "Black Angel," near Fairview Cemetery. The statue's fountain is now flowing again.
The Black Angel: Fountain, Bluffs heritage flow anew
Participating in Wednesday's dedication of the fountain at the Ruth Anne Dodge Memorial were, from left, Mayor Tom Hanafan, Council Bluffs Arts Council President Phyllis Otto, Hitchcock Foundation President Denman Kountze, Council member Jane Peters…
Money flowing in as 'Black Angel' work continues
Above is an artist's rendering of the Ruth Anne Dodge Memorial upon completion of restoration work.
Dodge Memorial, Ruth Anne
view from behind the Black Angel / Ruth Anne Dodge Memorial, facing a flautist performing in front of audience
Work finished at monument
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,…
Handout gives facelift to monuments
Waiting For The Touch...of repair crews is the Ruth Ann[e] Dodge memorial, better known as the Black Angel. Downing said the city will spend about $3,000 to spruce up the memorial fixing the lights and possibly reconnecting the fountain that once…
Move still a possibility; Look homeward, angel?
Looking As It Did...when placed in 1919, file photo shows memorial statue with water running from bowl. Fountain may be repaired this year. Sculptor Daniel Chester French once said the sculpture was his finest work.
Dodge Memorial Ruth Anne
Ruth Anne Dodge Memorial, the angel from the front, water flowing
Fascinating, The Word For New Orleans - French Quarter Isn't French; And There's No Streetcar Named Desire
(top) The Night Lights Of Bourbon Street . . . heart of New Orleans' old French Quarter and now a tourist-bait strip street, shine against a counterpoint of lights of modern skyscrapers in this view looking toward the Canal. -AP Photo
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Ride For Nickel On Staten Island Ferry - In Mecca Of The High-Priced
The Staten Island Ferry . . . plowing into New York's upper harbor from its Battery terminal at Manhattan's lower tip, background, is still the best transportation bargain in the city - AP Wirephoto
In Twilight's Gleaming:
The George Washington Bridge, connecting New Jersey with New York City across the Hudson River, displays new addition - a huge U.S. flag - suspended from its girders. Photo was taken Sunday night from the New Jersey end shortly a after twilight, when…
Awaiting Pope:
The lofty gothic spires of St. Patrick's Cathedral are framed by the concrete and glass of commercial skyscrapers in midtown Manhattan. This is the setting in which Pope Paul will pray, dine and visit during his New York trip Monday. -AP Wirephoto