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Like pulling teeth . . . this oversized machine called a motor puller just reaches under the hood to extract the car motor in one bite. Operator is "Shorty" Campbell who has jerked thousands of motors. New heavy machinery is currently being installed…

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Limbs And Twigs...weave an intricate pattern against the backlight of a winter sun on the frozen expanse of Lake Manawa. Forecasters say temperatures Tuesday and Wednesday should take the edge off the deep freeze the Council Bluffs area has been…

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Postcard of Lincoln Highway between Council Bluffs, Iowa and Omaha, Neb.

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Photograph of plaque on the Lincoln Memorial, Council Bluffs, Iowa.

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Historic sites -- Iowa -- Council Bluffs.
Memorials -- Iowa -- Council Bluffs.
Monuments -- Iowa -- Council Bluffs.
Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865.
Council Bluffs (Iowa) -- History -- 1900-1950.
Council Bluffs (Iowa) -- History -- Photographs.

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Photograph of the Lincoln Monument, Council Blufs, IA after renovation, July 1966.

LincolnFairview Historic District Part 1_201212310849043328 (4).pdf
National Register of Historic Places Registration Form for the Lincoln & Fairview Historic District in Council Bluffs. Includes descriptions of buildings and history.

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The Business District . . . of Loveland consists of five establishments along one and one-half blocks of Highway 75. Trees at far right obscure the residential section.

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From The Opposite End . . . of town the business section looks like this. The east-west Interstate Highway, when it comes, will cut across the present Highway 75 a short distance beyond the point where the truck is seen entering town.

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Photograph of Local #15 members attending the first M.D. Telethon.

Genealogy L633.tiff
Group photograph of 8 men, Partial list of names, Fred Hurd, Bert Hill, George Gerner, Clyd Lyons, Bert Clark, and Will Admoor.

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Pouring of molten metal from a large ladle into small ladle prior to pouring into molds.

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Finishing the cope side of the mold. Shown in the foreground are some of the finished molds.

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A wheel after being stripped from the mold and just before being placed in the annealing pits.

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View in the stock room. Finished wheels ready for shipment. Each wheel possesses the requisite properties for the particularly severe job it must do.

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Artist drawing of proposed casino, convention center

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Keeping Track . . . of prisoners is the job of Judy Peach, a corrections specialist in the new Pottawattamie County Jail. She uses a sophisticated television monitoring system and intercoms to see that prisoners are where they are supposed to be -…

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Maximum Security . . . cells are checked by Sid Rasmussen, a corrections specialist team leader in the new jail. Desks, beds and chairs are all built into walls and floors and cannot be moved.
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