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Iowa's First Flyer

Date: 03 1909
Description: Carl Bates in his airplane. The bottom half of the card shows the beginning of a race between Bates' invention and an automobile. Bates was from Clear Lake...
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Big Manitou Falls, Pattison State Park

Date: 1890
Description: Big Manitou Falls on the Black River. This waterfall reportedly was called "Gitchee Monido" by the Ojibwa, which means "Falls of the Great Spirit."
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Ben Nelson

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Description: Full-length oval portrait of Ben Nelson [as written on the photograph backing; also written as Ben Nilson on Descriptive Rolls, Volume 20 and published ro...

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