CEDAR RAPIDS, IOWA - PHOTOGRAPHIC HISTORY 1880-1950 - FASCINATING RARE PHOTOS

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CEDAR RAPIDS, IOWA - PHOTOGRAPHIC HISTORY 1880-1950 - FASCINATING RARE PHOTOS:
$49.95

Cedar Rapids: Our People, Our Story
published by The Cedar Rapids Gazette
Hardcover, 10\" x 7 3/4\", 156 pages, new and in mint condition.
Illustrated with over 300 rare black-and-white photographs.

From the preface:

The changes in society and the community around us have never been more evident than when we peruse the hundreds of photographs in Cedar Rapids: Our People, Our Story, Volume 1. These snapshots recorded every day life in the Cedar Rapids area during the relatively simpler times of the 1880s and 1890s and the first half of the 20th Century. Albeit two-dimensional, the black-and-white photographs are packed with information about people, where they worked, how they enjoyed life, and how they celebrated family milestones.

With the public\'s help, The Gazette is able to create an outstanding collection of rare and unusual local pictures made by amateur and professional photographers who captured moments in time and froze them in place. Responding to our call for old photographs, area residents submitted a wonderful variety of images, many of them pulled from aging albums or found in attic trunks and boxes in the basement. In addition, we were able to borrow historically relevant pictures from several local museums and, of course, we tapped The Gazette\'s extensive archive of news photographs.

The more than 300 photographs in this book are like pieces of tile in a mosaic. Collectively; they create a big, telling picture of the lives and times of people, places and activities of days gone by in the Cedar Rapids area.

INDEX

• Agriculture
• Aircraft/airport
• Business leaders
• Celebrities
• African Methodist Episcopal • Joint service involving five churches • Mosque • St. Patrick\'s Catholic • Salem • Trinity Methodist Episcopal • Westminster • Mount Mercy • University of Iowa

• Construction

Families
Banks • Biederman • Cargin • Donnels • Evans • Frink • Frish • Gallagher • Geismer • Hadish • Hadjis • Hahn • Horsky • Johnson • Kaplan • Kula • Milligan • Mounts • Reed • Rice • Rodriquez • Smith • Stephenson • Suchomel • Taylor • Warren • Yost

• Fires, firefighters
• Flood
• Government
• Homes
• Hospitals
• Hotels
• Landmarks

Manufacturers
Cedar Rapids Carriage Works • Century Engineering • Iowa Manufacturing • Iowa Steel • J.G. Cherry • LaPlant Choate • Perfection Mfg. Co. • Williams & Hunting

• Military
• Motor vehicles
• Music/dance

Organizations
Boy Scout Troop • Criterion Club • Girl Scouts • Iowa Consistory, Scottish Rite Masons • Iowa-Sheet Metal Contractors Assn. • Knights of Khorassan • Moose Club Girls Drum and Bugle Corps • Prince Hall Grand Lodge of Iowa • 33rd Degree Masons • Women\'s Relief Corps • YMCA\'s World Champion Boys Drum and Bugle Corps

• Parades
• Railroads/streetcars
• Recreation

Restaurants/bars
A & W Root Beer • B Street Bar • Dairy Queen • Harmony Cafeteria • Maid-Rite • Marshall Perkins • Second Ave. Valley Creamery • Cedar Rapids Bottling • Cedar Rapids Candy Co. • Colonial Baking • Cook\'s Paints • Dlask Grocery • Douglas Starch Works • Dow\'s Maniti Dairy • Duster\'s Grocery • Frank John\'s Harness Shop • Gatto\'s Grocery • Ginsberg\'s • Hanover Grocery • Highland Park Grocery • Hubbard Ice • Killians Department Store • Kramer & Son floral • Lagomarcino-Grupe • Mineck Groceries • Moll\'s Jewelry Store • Morgan Brothers Bicycle • Moyer & Darling Bicycles • National Oats • Neisner Variety • New Store, Kenwood Park • Quaker Oats • Sinclair Packing • Slapnicka music store • Star Pickle Works • Stepanek & Vondracek Hardware • Sterling Grocery • The Fair • Whelihan\'s Drug Store • William Aossey Sr. • Wilson & Co.

Schools
Arc preschool • Dairydale Elementary • Harrison Elementary • Jefferson Elementary • Johnson Elementary Orchestra • Madison Elementary • McKinley Junior High • Polk Elementary • Rosedale Elementary • Roosevelt High School Band • Shueyville Elementary • St. Berchman\'s in Marion • St. Patrick\'s • Washington High School

Services
Barber shop • Cedar Rapids Barber College • Christle hauling • Delivery wagons at Union Station • Gazette • Holland Furnace • Iowa State Savings Bank • Jarboe Ice • Lynch Transfer • McCannon\'s B-Square Service • New Process Laundry • Republican and Evening Times • Skelly Oil Co. • Troy Laundry • Western Bohemian Fraternal

• Street scenes
• Theaters
• Weddings

INSTITUTION PROFILES
Alliant Energy • CRST • Evergreen Packaging Equipment • Kirkwood Community College • Mercy Medical Center • Quaker Oats • Shuttleworth & Ingersoll • St. Luke\'s Hospital • Wells Fargo