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Edison School...was built at Twenty-second St. and Third Ave. in September of 1952. It replaced the old Second Avenue School. Edison has more classrooms than any of the other structures built under the School Board's program since 1950/

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Harrison School...received this addition in December 0f 1950. It was one of the first buildings under the expansion program.

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Selling Emerson School . . . are board secretary Elmo Hites and auctioneer Art Fritcher as Nishna Valley Supt. Lewis Doubleday and board president Frank Durbin confer.

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New Hoover School--First Step in modern building program.
[On back of photo: COUNCIL BLUFFS< IOWA -- Herbert Hoover School was the first completed under a program to modernize educational facilities for 11,000 youngsters.

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St. Albert Central Catholic High School was dedicated Sunday afternoon by Bishop Edward C. Daly, O.P. of the Des Moines diocese. Shown in the main entrance hall, left to right: the Rev. Daniel Delehant, school superintendent; Mark Wanning, altar…

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Razing Operations . . . on old administration building call for the right portion to be cleared away within two weeks.

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Pierce Street Frontage...for the high school site proposed by the City Planning Commission is partially shown here. North Avenue (not pictured) is at left. Altogether seven homes line Pierce Street.

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Washington School...would be abandoned by Hare and Hare plan but will be rebuilt by the School Board.

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Steam Pipes...run through one first grade room in the basement at Roosevelt School. Plaster is cracking in several spots along the floor.

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With a wide grin, William M. Jeffers looks up while inspecting this "magnificent" iron lung which was presented to him at the banquet in his honor at the Ak-Sar-Ben coliseum, Saturday evening. He will later present it to a Salt Lake City hospital.

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The Patio Office of the Council Bluffs Savings Bank, Twenty-seventh Street and West Broadway, was the scene Wednesday of the second bank robbery in less than six weeks. Police arrived on the scene moments after a well-dressed man took $4,000 from a…

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Although some people might find the large scaffolding in front of Rank's Department Store less than attractive, photographer Don Wright snapped this study in symmetry and geometric design. Ranks is remodeling the front of its building.

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Note on back of photo: "Mr. Duckworth"

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William A. Ballenger [head shot]
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