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Council Bluffs in 1858
Consists of drawings made by Simons during railroad survey projects in Iowa and Nebraska beginning in 1853.
Council Bluffs in 1858. View from Hospital Hill, looking South West
Council Bluffs in 1858. View from Hospital Hill, looking South West
Council Bluffs in 1858 Looking South
Consists of drawings made by Simons during railroad survey projects in Iowa and Nebraska beginning in 1853.
Looking South. Council Bluffs in 1858. View taken from hill where Hospital now stands.
Looking South. Council Bluffs in 1858. View taken from hill where Hospital now stands.
Council Bluffs in 1858 Looking North
Consists of drawings made by Simons during railroad survey projects in Iowa and Nebraska beginning in 1853.
Claims of Sylvanus Dodge and G.M. Dodge
Consists of drawings made by Simons during railroad survey projects in Iowa and Nebraska beginning in 1853.
Looking South over the claims of Sylvanus Dodge and G. M. Dodge to Ferry across Elkhorn River. 1854-1858.
Looking South over the claims of Sylvanus Dodge and G. M. Dodge to Ferry across Elkhorn River. 1854-1858.
Council Bluffs in 1851
Photographic reproduction of the George Simons painting, Council Bluffs in 1851.
Printed at bottom of image: "Council Bluffs in 1851."
Printed at bottom of image: "Council Bluffs in 1851."
Council Bluffs, 1853
Drawing of Council Bluffs in 1853.
New ambulance
A new county ambulance went into service Friday and one of its first stops was City Hall where Mayor Joseph Katelman gave it a personal inspection. The new unit is box shaped giving attendants more working room. It will hold up to four patients.…
S.W. Iowans getting paramedic training
Practicing paramedic skills . . . are five members of the Council Bluffs Emergency Care Division. The "patient" is Director Wayne McCunn, who is being worked on by Larry Hazelwood, Dick Christensen, Terry Mulvania and Ronnie King (standing).…
Ambulance located at fire station
Inspecting ambulance . . . now in service at the Oak Street Fire Station are fireman Larry Olsen, Mayor Dennis Anderson and Stan Miller of the Emergency Car Division. --Nonpareil Photo.
New unit for county
New County Ambulance that went into service late Tuesday is the first such vehicle in the state that bears the new national standard colors, according to director Wayne McCunn. The new unit is white, orange and black, will replace Squad 1, the…
Ambulance crews now talk to C.B. hospitals via radios.
Receiving a message . . . on a new high frequency two-way radio system at jennie Edmundson Hospital is Mrs. Rita Pierson, supervisor of the hospital's emergency room. She is talking directly to a technician from a Southwest Iowa ambulance en route to…
Bluffs gets 2 new ambulances
Ready to go in one of two new Council Bluffs ambulances is Emergency Medical Technician Jack Osborne. The paid cost 45,000, with $20,000 of that coming from a federal grant. These are the first "city" ambulances in recent years. One will be on…
Ambulance Service CB & Pott. County
White Pontiac Catalina with a light on the roof. The window says, "Pottawattamie County." Four men and one woman stand around the car. The back of the photo says, "New ambulance."
Ambulance crew always on move
A staff of 13 trained emergency medical technicians man the two units of the Pottawattamie County Ambulance Division on a 24-hour basis to provide emergency ambulance service over the entire Western end of the county.
Ambulance service C.B. & Pott. County
Training periods . . . fill the gap between runs for the medical technicians. Utilizing this time to freshen up on previous training and keep abreast of new equipment are Mulvania and Hazelwood. They use a new type of visual gauge for taking blood…