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Council_Bluffs_Schools_Peterson Elementary_09_15_1957_001.jpg
Light and Airy: Abandoning the customary monumental design of earlier school construction, the new 13-room Peterson grade school was given a "California" motif. The structure at Twenty-sixth Ave. and Ninth St., photographed from the northeast, is…

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Postcard of the Peru Plow & Implement Co.

Fire Fighters - Virgil Miller, Myron Albers, Mike Hughes.tif
Photograph of fire fighters Virgil Miller, Myron Albers, and Mike Hughes.

Modern truck serves as background for hand-pulled hose cart held by Asst. Chief Virgil Miller and fireman Myron Albers. Chief D. L. (Mike) Hughes stands in shadow of the old…

Fire Fighters - Persia Fire 10-31-1957.tif
Photograph of fire damage. Persia, IA.

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Bridge_Sites_Considered_For_Bridge_Between_CB_and_Omaha_3_3_1966_001.jpg
This Is A Drawing...of the Interstate 80 bridge which will carry traffic between the southwest part of Council Bluffs and Spring Street in Omaha. The Omaha side is in the foreground.

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Photograph of the exterior of the Peoples Department Store, Wednesday November 21, 1928 at 3:00 pm.

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Photograph of three women and a child at Lake Manawa.

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Photograph of Penny Arcade at Playland Park

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Bob Bensley admires his flag creation. "It took 10 years to find just the right shade of colors," he said. Bensley used 901 pencils to make his creation.

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Photograph of Pearl Street, looking south.

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Postcard of Pearl Street, looking north from the Council Bluffs Public Library.

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Postcard of Pearl Street looking North from Bayliss Park.

Streets P437a.tif
Postcard. Looking North on Pearl Street from Court House, Council Bluffs, Iowa.

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Photograph of Pearl Street from Broadway. West side. New State Savings Bank building built on this corner in 1946.

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Few travelers stop to see them during the winter so the buffalo, elk and deer get to eat their meals in peace these days at Botna Bend Park at Hancock. In this scene, the animals crowd around a pile or [sic] loose hay at the north end of the park. …

Brethren_Church_10_29_1966_004.jpg
The Rev. Charles Lunkley...looks over spacious sanctuary of new edifice. It will comfortably seat 250 plus overflow accommodations.

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This Modernistically...designed edifice is the house of worship for the Church of the Brethren congregation and is located at 2605 Avenue E.

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A sign on the first tee at the Dodge Park Golf Course offers a reminder Thursday that spring is only 21 days away, but a fresh blanket of snow turns the greens of the course white.

Animal_shelter_PAWS_01_30_1979.jpg
Presenting new gloves . . . to Pottawattamie Animal Welfare Society Director Nancy Burton and Fritz Flammang, president of the PAWS board of directors, is Virgil Eades, general manager of Great Plains Beef Co. The gloves made of steel mesh, will…
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