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Letter to Amelia Bloomer from Edwin Houghton.
A letter written to Amelia Bloomer from Edwin B., Houghton of Boston. Letter asking for an autograph.
The Day Before
Busy Workmen hustle about the fairgrounds at Dodge Park Monday, building fences, driving stakes and setting up tents for the opening of the West Pottawattamie County Fair. Livestock entries and agriculture exhibits will be in place at 9 a.m.…
T.J.'s Victory Merits Iowa-Nebraska Crown; Ryan Toppled, 6-2 Friday
You'd Make A Face Too...if you got as much dirt on you as Royal McCollum did when he slid into third base on a sacrifice bunt.
Yellowjackets Dump Johawks; T.J. Opens Crown Defense
High Jumping...to avoid bumping into runner Don Dew, St. Joseph's third baseman Bob Blankenship sees ball go past the bag on steal attempt by Dew.
There's Laughter As Young Cubans Hit Language Barrier
Eager Students...Carlos Barillas and Raphael Blanco get a lesson in English from Mrs. Nevin Innes.
Kids Sniff Pleasures Of New Prairie Rose
Sunlight And Shadows...and a girl give Prairie Rose State Park near Harlan a look of lake-and-woods enchantment. The silhouetted girl cleaning mud from bare feet is Marty Andreasen, Harlan High senior.
Daily Ritual At Berg Home Funny--But Nobody Laughed
Squirrels Dine...in deluxe accommodations, serviced by Berg.
Sunset At Manawa
Stretching toward a lost horizon, ice locked Lake Manawa reflects a dying December sunset in this view from the northeast shore. Half shrouded by the cold gloom, deserted Campbell's boat dock waits in vain for fair weather fishermen to come and…
Sunset Silhouette
When the sun set west of this farm near Quick, cold rays bold-trimmed the clouds that cry of winter as they cross the Iowa sky. And the feed-stocked silo raised a stiff, silent finger in defense.
Faulty Rail Blamed For C&NW Train Derailment; Eight of 91 Cars Leave Tracks
Workers Investigate...the best method of pulling this entanglement of freight cars apart. The derailment occurred when a rail broke on a feeder line of the Chicago and North Western at the north edge of Council Bluffs.
Faulty Rail Blamed For C&NW Train Derailment; Eight Of 91 Cars Leave Tracks
Lakeside Pileup: A piggyback trailer, full of hams, lies on its side only feet away from the pond in Lakeside Park at the north edge of Council Bluffs. The boxcar above is lying on another freight car, behind the trailer. The eight-car derailment…
General Dodge Papers - Book 6 - June 1866
General Dodge Papers - The War Period, Book 6
June 1866
For an index for Book 6, please refer to the "General Dodge Papers - Book 6 Index" record.
Typescripts of originals housed at the State Historical Society of Iowa.
June 1866
For an index for Book 6, please refer to the "General Dodge Papers - Book 6 Index" record.
Typescripts of originals housed at the State Historical Society of Iowa.
General Dodge Papers - Book 6 - May 1866
General Dodge Papers - The War Period, Book 6
May 1866 (partial, please refer to "General Dodge Papers - Book 5 - April to May 1866" for the remainder)
Missing title page of Book 6.
For an index for Book 6, please refer to the "General Dodge…
May 1866 (partial, please refer to "General Dodge Papers - Book 5 - April to May 1866" for the remainder)
Missing title page of Book 6.
For an index for Book 6, please refer to the "General Dodge…
C.B. Area Is Slapped By Wet, 4-Inch Snow
Collapsed Greenhouse...owned by Clarence L. Hardiman sprawls in a heap of framing and glass after it toppled under the weight of snow Thursday on North Fifteenth Street.
C.B. Area Is Slapped By Wet, 4-Inch Snow
Dressed For The Season...is Sheron Ganey, 3, as she views a tree limb that fell on her family's car. She is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Ganey, 220 N. 6th St.
Best Pictures 1961
Photo of wreckage from accident with garbage truck and auto transport, with two men examining wreckage. Photo not used in the newspaper story, but associated with "Work Hour To Free Trapped Truck Driver," Daily Nonpareil 10-16-1961. Trapped driver…
Work Hour To Free Trapped Truck Driver
Comforting Trapped Man...are Emergency Unit Capt. Logan Miller, Sheriff's deputies Virgil Elmore and Earl Pace. Wayne Chase holds his hand to his face.
Work Hour To Free Trapped Truck Driver
Tangled Trucks...in a Highway 92 ditch wound up with the garbage truck under the auto transport. The figure in the foreground is one of Lewis Township's Volunteer Firemen, who stood by at the scene.