What’s in this 1919 photo?

Des Moines river front, 04/01/1919, Hebard-Showers Co. photographer

Can you locate the following buildings in the above photograph?     

City Hall/Municipal Building   

Warfield-Pratt-Howe Co.   

Old public library   

Post Office/Federal Building   

Capital City State Bank   

State Capitol   

Tone’s Brothers   

What else can you identify?  Please post!   

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Pioneers of Polk County

Pioneers of Polk County is a compilation of Sketches of Pioneers of PolkCounty, Iowa, and Reminiscences of Early Days, printed in the Sunday Register and Leader during the years 1904-5-6, that they may be more tangible and accessible to those who desire to preserve them. –from the Introduction of Pioneers of Polk County

This piece contains images and biographical information of Polk County pioneers.  It can be viewed online at a fabulous repository called archive.org.  Here,  you can view it in an online reader or choose to download in one of many formats.  All file formats can be found on the left hand side of the screen.

The print version is available for viewing at the Central, East, and North locations.

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Iowa Magazines

DMPL has a nice selection of Iowa published magazines and newsletters.  In this post, I thought I would list the magazines/journals that we have current subscriptions for along with links to their catalog info and/or website.  Titles at the Central library cannot be checked out as they are a part of our permanent Iowa Collection, but branches may have circulating items.

Iowa Architect / website

Iowa Bird Life / website

Iowa Gardening / website

Iowa Heritage Illustrated / website

Iowa Horticulturalist / website

Iowan Magazine / website

Midwest Living / website

Our Iowa / website

Successful Farming / website

Wood / website

Woodsmith / website

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