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Neola ambulance
Recently purchased by the Neola Fire Department gets final check by Darrell Boyer before being placed in service for use by the department.
Tags: 1961, automobiles, Neola
Pump shed fire
Firemen pour water on wreckage of the pump shed which was the scene of an explosion and fire which claimed one life.
Tags: 1962, Firefighters, Fires
Warehouse fire
A city fireman pours water into a building at Thirteenth Street and West Broadway under the Broadway Viaduct. Officials say the fire may have been set.
Tags: 1972, crimes, Firefighters, Fires
Fire Department Training Session
Engineer Glen Hasler of the Council Bluffs Fire Department unloads the hoses as Fire Chief Norman Elgan directs during one of the daily training sessions.
Tags: 1971, Fire Department
Best Photos 1967-1970
Best Photos of 1967-1970
Tags: Best Pictures 1967-1970
Midwest Harvest Going Downstream
Iowa corn flows into barges at Peavey Company River Terminal for the first time in four years, and is checked by Jerry Swanger, Peavey barge loader, Dick Johnson, division manager, and Clyde Thorkildson, superintendent for Peavey. Johnson said the…
Bell Building Starts Out Clean-Faced
Dangling Three Stories Up...window cleaner Dale Morrell scrubs windows on the new telephone building, which will be occupied beginning Saturday. Nonpareil photo by Dave Mitchell.
Sparkling Holiday
Sue Young, 2527 Avenue H, spells out the holiday with a sparkler for this Independence Day picture. Photographer Joe Cavallaro made the picture by taking a time exposure while Miss Young did the spelling. Then he added her picture with a flash…
The Feeling Is Mutual
A mutual admiration society aptly describes Council Bluffs school bus driver Pat Murphy, 2516 Avenue A, and the kindergarten children of Hoover and Washington schools. "I love these children," Murphy says. And as for the children, "they would…
Who Days Dandelions Are Dandy
It's inevitable--with warm spring days come dandelions. But Mrs. Andrew Karr, 33-3 Avenue G, looks on the bright side of the situation as she joins her small daughter, Becky Arnold, 2, in a closer look at the blooms. The yellow flowers, Webster…
The Splat Of Raindrop.
The Splat Of Raindrops...on the faces of Diane Baldwin and Vickie Corum produced smiles as they waited for a traffic signal near Washington School. They are first graders at the school. Nonpareil photo by Jack Kennedy
The Headless Wrestler
The Headless Wrestler...is Alan Poore of Lewis Central as St. Albert's Jack Stageman forces him to stand into position.
Sylvanus Dodge's log cabin in Omaha
Consists of drawings made by Simons during railroad survey projects in Iowa and Nebraska beginning in 1853.
Log cabin in Omaha occupied by Sylvanus Dodge & family when driven by Indians from their Elkhorn form August 1855 to April 1856. This…
Log cabin in Omaha occupied by Sylvanus Dodge & family when driven by Indians from their Elkhorn form August 1855 to April 1856. This…
Tags: Dodge Family, drawing, George Simons, Nebraska
Sylvanus Dodge's Cabin
Consists of drawings made by Simons during railroad survey projects in Iowa and Nebraska beginning in 1853.
S. Dodge's Cabin & improvements as they appeared in 1858. 23 Miles NW of Omaha. Looking North West.
S. Dodge's Cabin & improvements as they appeared in 1858. 23 Miles NW of Omaha. Looking North West.
Tags: Dodge Family, drawing, George Simons, Nebraska
G.M. Dodge's engineer party on Coon River
Consists of drawings made by Simons during railroad survey projects in Iowa and Nebraska beginning in 1853.
4th Iowa Infantry
Consists of drawings made by Simons during railroad survey projects in Iowa and Nebraska beginning in 1853.
Fourth Iowa Infantry in Camp at Council Bluffs July 1861 before going to the war. "Camp Kirkwood."
Fourth Iowa Infantry in Camp at Council Bluffs July 1861 before going to the war. "Camp Kirkwood."
Tags: Council Bluffs, drawing, George Simons, history, Iowa, military, war