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Cassel_Walter_5-8-1954_002.jpg
Music is topic...of conversation between Walter Cassel and Jack Herweg after the famed operatic baritone presents his trophy to the Jay student.
[photograph is cropped version of photo printed in the Nonpareil; physical photo in file has been…

walnut hill cemetery full.pdf
An alphabetical list of burials at the Walnut Hill Cemeteries through May 4, 2018.

Walnut Grove Time Capsule Contents.pdf
Documents taken from the corner stone of Walnut Grove Elementary School building in Council Bluffs when it was demolished in 2017. Included are a variety of materials from 1925 & 1926. Scanned with permission of the CBCSD.

Walnut_Grove_Baptist_Church_9_9_1956_02.jpg
The Long, Trim Lines...of the Walnut Grove Baptist Chapel educational unit are a far cry from the basement classroom of 1950.

Walnut_Grove_Baptist_Church_9_9_1956_01.jpg
A Special Feature...of the new unit--fold away classroom partitions--is demonstrated by Rev. Joseph Howland, pastor of the chapel.

Walnut Grove Baptist Church
(formerly Walnut Grove Chapel)
1001 North 29th St.

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Waldo Merrill, Chief Oct. 1, 1940 to Jan. 17, 1964

Jennie_Ed1_02_01_1952_001.jpg
Chairs in waiting room of new hospital wing are patterned in green and gold plastic. Figured drapes on the windows harmonize. Children's playroom can be seen through the inner window (left).

Dodge_Memorial_02_17_1980.jpg
Waiting for the touch . . . of repair crews is the Ruth Ann Dodge memorial, better known as the Black Angel. Downing said the city will spend about $3,000 to spruce up the memorial, fixing the lights and possibly reconnecting the fountain that once…

Fire Fighters - 6-29-73.tif
Dousing the interior of the Wagon Wheel Tavern, 830 N. 8th St. are Council Bluffs Fireman Harold Jensen and Larry French in the snorkel rig.

Jennie_Ed3_01_01_1984_001.jpg
First Passenger . . . in the new Jennie Edmundson Hospital surgical wagon is Jennifer Porter. The surgical escort is Virginia Flynn. Chatting with Jennifer is Max Smelser who, with Ken Bermel, designed and helped construct the wagon.

Fires W346a.tif
Photograph of a Wagon Factory that burned. Ken Greulach took the pictures when he was a kid

Business W594.tif
Photograph of the exterior of the W. L. Whitney Jr. Store, Becht Hotel is next door.

Glenwood_IA_1_10_21_1968_001.jpg
Forrest Mayberry . . . lieutenant of the rescue squad, stands near the Glenwood Fire Department's rescue unit, one of the department's newest vehicles in the one-year-old fire station. The rescue unit will be freed for more specialty work when the…

Braddyville_IA_3_31_1979_001.jpg
Sitting Amid The Rubble...of what hours earlier had been her mobile home is Sharon Sheppard of Braddyville. The woman, her husband and their daughter were not at home when the Thursday tornado hit, virtually destroying the town of 200 near the…

Fire Department Visiting Nurses.tif
Visiting Nurse's Association assisting Local #15 members in distributing Invalid Stickers.

Parking lot Vine.tif
Four photographs of public parking lot at Vine and Bryant

Harrison_Co_Village_05_07_1972_003.jpg
A Rifle, Lamps And Old Chairs . . . set off the fireplace in the old log cabin at the Harrison County Historical Village. Preston Niles, creator of the village, had the entire cabin moved from his farm near Ames to near Missouri Valley in 1937 to…

Harrison_Co_Village_05_07_1972_002.jpg
One Of The Largest Bells . . . in western Iowa sits near the end of the village in front of a miniature church containing pews and pulpit of a pioneer church. A corn museum, jail and a school built in 1868 stand behind the church.
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