Browse Items (7571 total)

Union_Pacific_Locomotive_File1_undated_005.jpg
Train cars in the Union Pacific rail yard with the Union Pacific Transfer depot in the background.

Union_Pacific_Locomotive_File1_undated_004.jpg
"Chief Red Cloud didn't want the 'Iron Horse' because it 'scared away the buffalo.'"

Caption written on the reverse side.

Union_Pacific_Locomotive_File1_09_12_1868_001.jpg
Gone Are the Days! Scene at the Union Pacific Railroad depot at 'Omaha City,' taken September 12, 1868.

Union_Pacific_Locomotive_File1_01_1962_001.jpg
Transition from sledges, crowbars, and backbreaking labor to the modern rail machines shown here has put the business of maintaining a railroad's right of way into the realm of a science. And it's a science that's expensive. Union Pacific Railroad…

Union_Pacific_Locomotive_File1_undated_003.jpg
The Streamliner 'City of Los Angeles'; the Chicago and North Western - Union Pacific high speed eleven car streamline train started from Chicago this morning (Friday, May 1st) on a trial run to Omaha. It is shown as it stood in the North Western…

Union_Pacific_Locomotive_File1_undated_002.jpg
Union Pacific Railroad yards in Council Bluffs, looking towards the southwest. The road in the foreground where the railroad tracks cross is Ninth Avenue. The Golden Spike Monument is at middle right.

Union_Pacific_Locomotive_File1_undated_001.jpg
On the reverse side: "Workers on the U.P. exchanging picks and shovel for rifles to repel an Indian attack."

Union_Pacific_Locomotive_File1_1865_001.jpg
Unloading railroad supplies on the banks of the Missouri River in Omaha in 1865.

Hiddleston_George_08_1981_001.jpg
George S. Hiddleston February 2, 1982
President & CEO, Universal Services Inc.-International
Seattle, Washington

Changing_Scene_1956_11_25_1956_088.jpg
Council Bluffs Changing Scene--This is how Mercy Hospital appears on a postal card printed in 194. The main entrance is on Harmony Street. This old picture is from the collection of Arthur Rogers, 130 Park Ave.

clarinda, 1908.png
A photograph of the Iowa State Hospital for the Insane in Clarinda, IA.

MX-3115N_20200807_074003.pdf
Burial details and map for the Kinsman section of the Fairview Cemetery. Researched by Roy D. Linn - Graves Officer, William Kinsman Camp #23 - Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War.

J.L. Moore Funeral Sept. 15, 1899.jpg
A photograph of the funeral procession of J. L. Moore on September 15, 1899.

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

CD_1941_Complete0000v3.pdf
R. L. Polk Council Bluffs City Directory 1941.

WEST SIDE MAIN STREET.jpg
Photograph of the West Side of Main Street. Three story building in foreground is the only one still standing. Occupied for many years by E. H. Lougee & Co.
Output Formats

atom, csv, dc-rdf, dcmes-xml, json, omeka-xml, rss2