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Polk's Council Bluffs (Pottawattamie County, Iowa) City Directory, 1962.

Contains:
- Buyers' Guide and a complete classified business directory
- Alphabetical directory of business concerns and private citizens
- Complete street and avenue…

Polk's Council Bluffs (Pottawattamie County, Iowa) City Directory, 1975.

Contains:
- Buyers' Guide and a complete classified business directory
- Alphabetical directory of business concerns and private citizens
- Complete street and avenue…

S. T. Walker & Company's City Directory of Council Bluffs, Iowa for 1879.

Comprising a complete list of the citizens of Council Bluffs, with places of business and residence, together with a list of churches, schools, banks, newspapers, secret and…

Photograph of the Simons print showing the first temporary railroad bridge across the Missouri river.


Printed at bottom of image: "First temporary bridge between C Bluffs and Omaha with first train of cars crossing, Winter of 1867."

Postcard of the Mormon Social House in Nauvoo, Illinois.

Sketch of the Mormon Tabernacle, Council Bluffs, 1848.

Etching of a sketch by George Simons showing the Blockhouse, converted into a mission by Pierre-Jean De Smet.

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Drawing of Council Bluffs in 1853.

Notes written on drawing:
3. Indian Mission
2. Sarpy's new home
1. Sarpy's old home
P. Sarpy Indian Agent, "Omaha" tribe of Indiana whose village was near Bellevue

Caption: Congregational Church erected in 1854 & 1855 on Pearl St. ground now occupied by [...] block begun in Aug 1854 and finished in Spring of 1855. Vacated Sept. 12, 1869.

Drawing of the home of Sylvanus Dodge. Caption:
NE Corner 4th St. & North St.
Home of Sylvanus Dodge (D 1871) and his widow Julia Dodge (D 1888) and of N. P. Dodge 1858-1864. Erected in 1858 & occupied by Mrs. J. T. Dodge.

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

Drawing of Sioux City Iowa, 1856.

Twenty Ninth Iowa Infantry in Winter Quarters. Little Rock, AK. Winter 1864 & 65.

The first Claim Cabin built in Nebraska by Dan Norton in 1853 between Omaha & Bellevue.

First Grist Mill in Pott County built by S E ... for Pott tribe of Indians, located on Mosquito Creek, afterwards known as Parks Mill. Sketches in 1854. Rebuilt in 1852.

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

First temporary bridge between Council Bluffs and Omaha and the first train of cars crossing, Winter 1867.

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

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

Captain Carlisle's California Train on the Platte Valley 1859.

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