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Architect's drawing of new Griffin Pipe Products Co. plant in Council Bluffs, Iowa.

Twenty-Foot Lengths . . . of cast iron pressure pipe are loaded aboard a freight car at the Griffin Pipe Products Co. plant here, an operating unit of AMSTED Industries.

Griffin Pipe. Over 1 million dollars in damage. 13 people injured.

Griffin Pipe. Over 1 million dollars in damage. 13 people injured.

Officials Walk By The "Bag House" . . . at Griffin Pipe Co. The facility acts as a giant vacuum cleaner bag where the dust remains on the inside while the clean air passes through to the outside.

L.W. Tutskey, Vice President in charge of manufacturing for Griffin Pipe Products Co. in Council Bluffs, Iowa

Walking Through Explosion Area . . . at Griffin plant is a city fireman. The cupola which blew up is to the right and rear of the fireman. In the foreground are cement slabs, glass, and pieces of iron which showered from the roof of the casting and…

Tricky Moving . . . of the new cupola at Griffin Pipe Products plant is guided by workmen.

Groundbreaking ceremonies for Iowa West Greyhound Park in Council Bluffs were held Thursday morning. The park, scheduled to open in Marc 1986, will employ more than 300 persons, officials said. Pictured is the proposed grandstand building.
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Susanne Reynolds (foreground) and her sister-in-law Debbie Reynolds display the type of greyhounds that will be running at the new Council Bluffs greyhound track. John Seastrom Kennels of Abilene provided the animals and their handlers for the…

These greyhounds owned by Gale Kurtz-Jerry Taylor Kennel of Sioux City were the first arrivals at Bluffs Run Tuesday. The Kurtz-Taylor kennel, the first of 16 to arrive, is the only one with Iowa-based ownership. Schooling for the greyhounds begins…

General Dodge as Chief Marshal of military division of the Inauguration parade, March 4, 1897. Washington, D.C.

Portrait of Grenville Mellen Dodge in profile.

Photograph of Grenville Dodge in his office in the old Council Bluffs Savings Bank.

Reprint of a photograph of Grenville Dodge as a cadet at Norwich University.

Photograph of Grenville M. Dodge in Civil War uniform.
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