View in Business Section (reduced in size)
Although originals of these early historical Des Moines photographs published in 1907 are difficult to find, you can now get them on a cd-rom prepared from original early 20th century items held in a private collection.
This cd-rom isn't mass produced but is compiled individually and personally for each purchaser so few copies exist. You can get one of them here.
Two or three sample images, greatly reduced in size, are set out below, followed by a list of all the views.
Fourth Street looking North (reduced in size)
Citizens National Bank (reduced in size)
Mercy Hospital (reduced in size)
These rare views show you Des Moines as it was about 100 years ago. Compare these views with what you can see today ...
The 30 photographs, similar to the above but much larger, with their page numbers on the cd-rom, are:
3. View in Business Section
4. Soldiers' Monument
5. Front View of Capital
6. Iowa Hall of History
7. Public Library
8. Fourth Street, looking North
9. Citizens National Bank
10. View in Union Park
11. Greenwood Park
12. Observatory Building
13. Mercy Hospital
14. Still College
15. Central Presbyterian Church
16. Episcopal Church
17. Franklin Avenue Residences
18. Residence of Dr. Coffee
19. Residence of A.G. Maish
20. Grand View Park
21. West Ninth Street in the Residential District
22. Plymouth Congregational Church
23. Lutheran Church
24. Central Christian Church
25. West High School
26. View of City Showing Seven Church Spires
27. St. Ambros Church
28. Baptist Church
29. Clapp Block
20. Crocker Building
31. Walnut Street Looking East from Eighth Street
32. Greenwood Park
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This cd-rom is in standard PDF format using Adobe Acrobat (or similar) PDF reader software. These days most computers come with Adobe Acrobat reader software as standard but if you haven't got it on your system it can be downloaded free of charge from www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep2.html
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