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Today...what a whale of a difference 60 years make. Main St., looking south from Broadway, shows few buildings that were there in the old picture. The change of dress and transportation is obvious.

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Council Bluffs Changing Scene--Judging from this picture nearly everyone in town turned out for the Ringling Brothers circus parade around 1895. Men wore derbys [sic] and women wore hooped skirts. The parade is turning the corner of Main St. and…

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Today...the Reorganized Latter Day Saints worship in this beautiful church at Washington Ave. and Elder St. One of the largest churches in the city, it was formally opened in January of 1953. Cost of the blond brick structure, including the lot and…

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View in the stock room. Finished wheels ready for shipment. Each wheel possesses the requisite properties for the particularly severe job it must do.

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A wheel after being stripped from the mold and just before being placed in the annealing pits.

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Finishing the cope side of the mold. Shown in the foreground are some of the finished molds.

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Pouring of molten metal from a large ladle into small ladle prior to pouring into molds.

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Smoke system at Griffin Pipe Co., Council Bluffs, Iowa.
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