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- Subject is exactly "Rivers"
A photograph of the Jacob J. Hotz Ice Company employees. About forty men stand on the frozen Iowa River and on the top of train cars in the back of…
An aerial view of the city of Coralville. On the bottom of the image, the Iowa City Electric and Power Company can be seen on the Iowa River with the…
A front view of the wheel-house under construction in 1915. It contained two waterwheels and was a part of the project to rebuild the dam in the…
Workers start construction on the old mill dam to create a 3,000-kilowatt waterwheel pit for the Iowa City Electric Light and Power Company. The old…
A map of the city of Coralville, circa 1870 (Lovetinsky et al., p. 42). The lines drawn designate the property boundaries of acres of land belonging…
The brick mills of Coralville line the Iowa River. As written on page 14 of Lest We Forget:
'Left to right: The woolen mill erected in 1866 was…
About twenty men work repair construction on the wooden dam. Whether these repairs were needed due to the result of age, use, or ice damage is…
A wooden dam built across the Iowa River. Trees line the side of either bank of the river behind the dam. Wood boards lay in haphazard piles along the…
Young boys (left to right) Edwin "Ned" Paintin and Clifford Koser fish together near the mills. They sit on large rocks near a stone archway, their…
A houseboat that belonged to John Davis. Son Otis is sitting next to it on a ridge of land; a wooden plank to the left of him serves as a plank to get…
Clark McGinnis, son of John Ralph McGinnis and Florence (Clark) McGinnis, and Ezekiel Clark, Jr, stand on a concrete ledge, likely part of the Iowa…
Three persons balance on a fallen tree over Clear Creek. Their reflections can be seen in the water below them.
Fred John Kriz can be seen standing…
A picture of the Coralville Mill Dam from the river bank, near where the Iowa City Electric Light and Power Company was built around 1915 (Walch, p.…
A man fishes off a guarded out-crop by the Iowa River Electric Light and Power Company, downstream of the Coralville mill dam. The roiling waters of…
A painted scene on a postcard of the Coralville Dam at night, lit by moonlight.
A postcard with a photo of the Coralville Dam near Iowa City with a hand-written message.
The transcription is as follows:
"You asked what card…
The excursion boat Coralville Queen sits stuck on the bridge over the dam after slipping its mooring during a 1960s flood (Walch, p. 23).
The churning waters of the Iowa River has overtaken the bridge above the dam and heads towards Iowa City (Walch, p. 23).
Coralville residents gather outside Koser's Store before embarking on an expedition to see the flooded riverbanks of the Iowa River. Flood water can…