Photo of the Month Archive - Page 6

Uncle Billy, Model T Ford and pumpkins

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Country School, Story County
from a glass plate negative, ca 1895

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The new Post Office, sometimes known as the Federal Building, was completed in 1912 on the southwest corner of Fifth and Kellogg.  To the right can be seen part of the 1905 National Guard Armory, later occupied by O'Neil Dairy, on Fifth Street.  Note the dirt streets and watering trough in the middle of the intersection.  By 1915 the Sheldon-Munn Hotel would be under construction just to the south of this building.

The post office pictured above replaced a smaller Post Office storefront on Douglas.  This building was eventually deemed too small and was replaced in 1936 by the current Post Office located one block north, on the west side of Kellogg at Sixth and Kellogg.

Back row from left: Maxine Stephenson, Regina Taff, Arlene Yale (with accordian), Dorothy Geataganas, Lucille Breen, Betty Cooper, ??? (with wig), Beatrice Trueblood, Joan Mannissey, Dorothy Johnson, Hallevern Clay
Middle row: Helen Taylor, Virginia Koontz, Barbara LaVell, Eleanor Ricketts, Dorothy Dyas, Mary Taff
Front row: Mary Elizabeth Soregan, Marjorie Taff, Virginia Dyas, Phyllis Koontz, Mildred Morris, Mary Lou Halotka (with pipe), Marian Height, Thelma Levine