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Kareen Johnson, Miss Council Bluffs, 1963.

Candy industry -- Iowa -- Council Bluffs.
Photographs held by the Library.
Council Bluffs (Iowa) -- Biography -- Portraits.
Council Bluffs (Iowa) -- History -- 1900-1950.

Miss Jensen is accompanied at the window by Mr. John G. Woodward, Pres., Mr. Charles Beno, Director, and B. A. Gronstal, Vice President of the Council Bluffs Savigs Bank, Council Bluffs, Iowa.
Council Bluffs, Iowa girl winning this title May 27,…

Photograph of George Folsom Everest, Matthew A. Tinley at P. P. Bishop at the National Defense Banquet.

Group photograph of six people. Anne (Mrs. Thomas) Delaney, Paul Robinson and Robert W. Turner, others are unidentified.

Group photograph of five people. Paul Robinson and Robert W. Turner, others unidentified.

Photograph of Germaine Krettek receiving the John Cotton Dana Award from Howard Haycraft.

Photograph of Dr. W.R. Summers being presented a check for $250.00 by William Ware. The prize was for writing the new Council Bluffs slogan for the Chamber of Commerce.

Photograph of Art Rogers.

Photograph of storm damage on Park Avenue.

Photograph of storm damage at the corner of Knepper and South 1st Street, Council Bluffs. Mrs. Jessica Siedentopf's house is in the background.

Photograph of car damaged by fallen tree. Behind the Ogden hotel.

3 photographs of the flooding on Mosquito creek and the Missouri River, 1936.

Photograph of Council Bluffs (Iowa) taken after the flood of 1881. Looking west from the corner of 7th avenue and 7th street.


Printed on bottom of image: "The Great Flood of 1881. - Cor 7 Av and 7th St in foreground."

1956 Best Photos/Best Stories

Despite Broken Leg...and obvious discomfort David W. Hansen manages a smile.

"Ask In My Name"...reads the verse from scripture on a prayer cloth worn by little Leland Blankenship.

Hundreds of persons daily find the receded shoreline at Lake Manawa a good place to relax and enjoy the beauties of nature. Especially during the evening hours, many fishermen drive right down to the water's edge. Here a lone fisherman holds down a…

Hold It, Mr. Deer...you can't jump out of Indian Creek. The deer and his companion find this out as they get an escorted tour through the creek and out of town. A pair of unidentified hersdmen help show the way.

A Mercy Convoy...of officers and ambulance stops at Green Hill as sheriffs deputies confer with Highway Patrolman A.W. Kellar about a reported traffic crash.