Iowa Historic photos, documents, and people

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Congregation of Our Savior's Lutheran Church, Stanhope, Iowa, circa 1900. My great grandparents, Rasmus Rasmusson and Marie Satre Rasmusson back row, 17 and 18 from the right (count carefully). She w

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My paternal grandparents, Ida Berg and Alva Gibbs married and raised 11 children, 8 boys and 3 girls. Most of their married life they lived in Sioux City, Iowa where Grandpa was a carpenter. He built

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C. & N.W. R.R. Cloe Weaver, mother of four children, employed as a helper at the roundhouse, Clinton, Iowa. She is learning to operate the turntable. Her husband works for a structural steel company

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Charles Leslie Bemus born 1876 and his wife Minnie born 1880 raised a large family while running their Iowa farm. This is the year they left the farm and moved back east to Star Lake, New York.

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Women wipers of the Chicago and North Western Railroad cleaning one of the giant "H" class locomotives, Clinton, Iowa. Mrs. Marcella Hart and Mrs. Viola Sievers

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C. & N.W. R.R., Mrs. Marcella Hart, mother of three children, employed as a wiper at the roundhouse, Clinton, Iowa

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Women workers employed as wipers in the roundhouse having lunch in their rest room, C. & N.W. R.R., Clinton, Iowa

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C. & N.W. Ry. i.e. Chicago & North Western Railway viaduct over Des Moines River, near Boone, Iowa

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Burlington, Cedar Rapids, and Northern Railroad-Rock Rapids Station, Railroad Track and Bridge