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Dodge, Grenville G464a (3).tif
Business card for Washington National Bank in New York. G.M. Dodge, Vice President.

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Work is now underway on the new $458,040 Washington School. A dirt loader is being used in the excavation work by Andersen Construction Company, general contractors. The new school will face Scott Street. The present school is in the background.

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Photograph of Washington School. Spring 1954. Looking north down Bryant Street. Central Fire Station on left, Auditorium on right.

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Photograph of the water front at Lake Manawa.

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Frank Schultz calmly watches the Missouri River lap at his doorstep below the east end of Ak-Sar-Ben Bridge. Schultz, on familiar terms with the river since 1930, said this spring's water level is the highest he's seen in eight years. But Schultz…

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I.C. Water Tower 13th and Ave. N. Eng 1 Crew 8th and Main

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Four photographs of the Water Works office - Southeast corner of North Main and Vine

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Three postcards depicting waterfront and docks at Lake Manawa.

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Recreation Hopes . . . focus on this six-acre lake at the east edge of Dunlap. Part of the Mill-Picayune Watershed Project, it was recently stocked with fish.

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A Series Of Upstream Dams . . . as shown here by dots, would be used to impound excess runoff water in the Indian Creek watershed. The structures would be a part of the proposed conservation program. The number and location of these units might be…

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Water Works pumping station on North 37th street.

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Sand Bars . . . add dramatic proof to the current plight of Lake Manawa. Normally, the water would extend past the boardwalk in the foreground.

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Harold Lewis and Roy Vaughn, both brick layers, scramble through the network of scaffolding at the Council Bluffs Savings Bank remodeling site, Main Street and Broadway. The picture, shot as a silhouette against the sky, was reversed purposely in…

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These 30 Young Women . . . will join the ranks of alumnae of the Jennie Edmundson Hospital School of Nursing following graduating exercises Wednesday night. From left, front row, are: Pamela Baumker, Margaret Foreman, Evelyn Hall, Beverly Ross,…

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Heavy Equipment . . . is moving thousands of cubic yards of earth from the bed of Mosquito Creek to form the base for a large dam.

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(top) Rebecca Ann King
(mid) Miss King . . . as she appeared Sept. 9 after winning the Miss America title in Atlantic City, N.J. - AP Wirephoto
(bot) This Sign . . . along Highway 59 in Hancock will let travelers know the tow is the home of Rebecca…

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4 photographs of the welcome home parade on Broadway for soldiers returning from World War I.
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