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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…
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…
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 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…
Coralville residents gather outside Koser's Store before embarking on an expedition to see the flooded riverbanks of the Iowa River. Flood water can…
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 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…
Flood water comes up and over the base of a handrail next to the Iowa City Electric Light and Power Company. The photo centers on a sign that states…
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…
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…
The excursion boat Coralville Queen sits stuck on the bridge over the dam after slipping its mooring during a 1960s flood (Walch, p. 23).
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…
The churning waters of the Iowa River has overtaken the bridge above the dam and heads towards Iowa City (Walch, p. 23).
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…
A woman smiles at the camera while using the home water pump to fill up a pitcher. She wears a checkered dress lined in lace and high heels. While…
A woman rests her hand on the bridge's metal railing over the Coralville Dam and peers over to the falling water below. The bridge is…
Two women from the Carlton-Huffman family wash laundry outdoors in metal buckets next to the water pump. Both women have the sleeves of their dresses…