Photograph of Iowa School for the Deaf before the fire, 1902. The first main building suffered a tornado and four fires until it burned to the ground in 1903.
Four of a large group of students who came from Ames to work with other volunteers are shown here hefting sandbags into an army truck at the Golden Horse diner on South Omaha road. Left to right are John Peck of Garner; Leon Kruse of Tipton; Roger…