Photograph of the corner of Main and Broadway in Council Bluffs (Iowa), 1868. Features the Pacific House Hotel, P. C. DeVol Store and Officer & Pusey Bank.
Cracked cement and for sale signs...spell a gloomy picture on vacant buildings like this one at Pearl Street and Broadway. The handsome building has been vacant for years.
Scattered weeds...peak[sic] through the sidewalks near 28th Street and Broadway as well as other spots along the strip. Weeds are not unique to any one spot along the strip.
Road and business signs...welcome eastbound visitors to Council Bluffs. Wedged in between the Second Avenue sign and the noise ordinance sign is a notice that this site will someday hold a "municipal recognition sculpture." Putting up a sign for…
A Rosy Apple...appears on a china plate through a brush held in the hand of Kay Godschalk, china painting instructor. Looking on are Mrs. Albert Cleveland, Mrs. C.C. Pennock and Mrs. Eldon Griffin, members of Brush and Palette China Painting…
Top - Clearing Excess Rock . . . from a Missouri River levee near the Water Works intake station is this barge-based Army Engineers drag line. Rock was dumped on foot of levee during last year's flood fight.