The marker, a large granite boulder with a bronze plaque honoring the Mormon handcart pioneers, stands today at Coralville's St. Morrison Park north of the pioneer campground on Clear Creek. Attending the Dec. 17, 1936, dedication ceremony as a…
An athletic award letter, as given by the Coralville Junior High School in the early 1960s. The letter was blue with a white border and given to students in the seventh, eighth, and ninth grades for band, basketball, and football (Brandstatter).
Second grade teacher Mary Dunn stands in front of the Coralville Elementary School Building. She is bundled up in a coat, gloves, winter boots, and head scarf as the wind blows snow around her. While the sidewalk leading to the brick building's front…
The junior high boy's basketball ball team line up for a photograph in their team uniforms. The boys in the front row kneel, basketballs under their hands, while the back row stands.
Front row, left to right: Ron Horrell (#5), Jim Cannon, Jr.…
Leslie Miller, Past-President of the Coralville Optimist Club, shakes the hand of a Little League baseball player Rick Pionkowski as he hands him a trophy. The backs of two other baseball players can be seen on the left side of image, the words…
Sixteen members of the Coralville Heights Club gather for a photograph. Six women kneel, while the others stand behind them in a line. All wear dresses in various patterns.
First row, left to right: Ona Zimmerli, Beatrice Rinda, Sally Robertson,…
Richard Hughes rings the bell on the front steps of the 1876 Coralville schoolhouse as a part of a ceremony that rededicated the building as a museum of the Johnson County Historical Society. A man holds the school door open behind Hughes, while…
In 2009, Coralville, Iowa City, and North Liberty became one of the six finalists selected to join Iowa's Great Places program. The program, which was put on by the Iowa Department of Cultural Affairs and in its fifth year in 2009, encouraged…
Mayor Jim Fausett stands near center as a line of city council members and city residents use golden shovels to dig at the ground breaking ceremony for the Coralville Center of the Performing Arts. The ceremony took place in the fall of 2010; the…
A photograph of the vehicle Joseph A. Brandstatter used while acting as town marshal from 1937-1951. A siren can be seen under the right side headlight, as well as two spare tires on either side of the car. The vehicle has a Linn County license…
Fred Paintin,the Coralville town marshal from 1952 to 1957, leaves his car parked on the side of the road. The vehicle, a late 1940's Hudson, is outfitted with a stop light on its front and back. This is one of the last town marshal cars used in…
The back yard of the house belonging to J.A. and Genevieve (Nagle) Brandstatter. A shed can be seen attached to several fenced off enclosures. These enclosures hold a number of small dogs.
During the Great Depression, the Brandstatters raised…
Two fire engines park on a street in front of a two-storied house. A ladder is leaned against the side of the house, over a smoking window on the second story.
Fire hoses are stretched out in the street, laying in puddles of water. These hoses…
A city fire engine from the Coralville Volunteer Fire Department sits parked outside the open fenced gate of the Econogas Company. Inside the fence, a large fire emits a black cloud of smoke into the sky.
Coralville residents gather outside Koser's Store before embarking on an expedition to see the flooded riverbanks of the Iowa River. Flood water can be seen flowing through the street; two men work with a chain in front of a parked truck, while two…
A large Randall's sign is placed near the top of a brick-walled building. An antenna pops up from behind the sign from its placement on the roof. A white Lincoln Continental parked next to the building sits over the diagonal lines of the parking lot.…