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Postcard # 1  Rivers Attracted Pioneers to Region

Postcard # 2  Early Iowa City

Postcard # 3 Johnson County Courthouse

Postcard # 4 Old Brick Stories
Postcard # 5 Stories of St Mary's Postcard # 6 Early University Genius
Postcard # 7 Retrieving Little Dutch Hall Postcard # 8 Vigilantes, but no County Jail!
Postcard # 9 Drunken Pigs and Grazing on the Pentacrest Postcard # 10 Clinton Street Charm
Postcard #11 Englert Theater, Inside and Out Postcard # 12 Oakdale TB Sanitarium
Postcard # 13 Coralville Mills Aplenty Postcard # 14 Iowa City's Little Bell-That-Could
Postcard #15 Chautauqua--Iowa City Style Postcard #16 Steamboating at Iowa City
Postcard # 17 University Medical Building 1882-1901 Postcard # 18 Byzantine Unity Hall
Postcard # 19 The Bells of Old Capitol Postcard # 20 Mechanics Academy Victory Bell
Postcard # 21 The Black Angel of Oakland Cemetery Postcard # 22 Iowa City's First Capitol
Postcard # 23 Inside Butler's Capitol Postcard # 24 Ode to Eagle Country Market
Postcard # 25 Iowa City Glass Postcard # 26 Bunkers Below Engineering Hall
Postcard # 27 The Burkley Home, Ardenia Postcard # 28 Civil War Impacts Iowa City, UI
Postcard # 29 Crandic links Iowa City, Cedar Rapids Postcard # 30 Generating Depression-Era Fun
Postcard # 31 The Fine Arts at Iowa Postcard # 32 Pioneer Money Problems 
Postcard # 33 Reusing Building Parts Postcard # 34  Football Before Kinnick Stadium
Postcard # 35 Old Cap Image Really Gets Around Postcard # 36 Visiting a 1900 Iowa City Map 
Postcard # 37 Local Map Shows Minnehaha & Clarksville Postcard # 38 Streetcars Roam Iowa City
Postcard # 39  Sky Perch Caps Downtown Postcard #40 Football Image Sparks Insight
Postcard # 41 Thanksgiving on the Battleship Iowa Postcard # 42 The Coldren Opera House
Postcard # 43 Grant Wood – an Iowa City institution Postcard #44 Nile Kinnick – Iowa’s legendary football player 
Postcard # 45 Charles Schaeffer – Champion of UI’s Pentacrest Postcard #46 Sam Kirkwood – the local man and Iowa governor
Postcard # 47 Exploring the Old North Side  Postcard # 48 Exploring the Old East Side
Postcard # 49 Iowa City’s Hutchinson Quarry Postcard # 50 Close Family Triumph & Tragedy
Postcard # 51 Blacks in Pioneer Iowa City Postcard # 52 Iowa City Paves Over the Mud 
Postcard # 53 Coal Gas in Antique Iowa City Postcard # 54 Iowa City’s Early Public Schools
Postcard # 55 Early Private and Parochial Schools Postcard # 56 “Drunk or Rich” in Iowa City 
Postcard # 57 Johnson County’s Namesake – a good fit Postcard # 58 Digital Restoration of an Artifact 
Postcard # 59 1909 Pushball in City Park  Postcard # 60 Horse Power for Jessup Hall
Postcard # 61 The Congregational Neighborhood Postcard # 62 Pioneer Presbyterians – A Stormy Bunch
Postcard # 63 Cigars and Local Brews Postcard # 64 Calvin Hall Serene on Pentacrest 
Postcard # 65 Lone Tree’s Historic Heritage  Postcard # 66 Iowa Government Exits Old Capitol
Postcard # 67 1,400 Miles by Handcart from Iowa City Postcard # 68 Iowa City builders Johnson and Snyder
Postcard # 69 Affecters of University Hospitals Postcard # 70 Tornado in Iowa City – 1859 
Postcard # 71 Swimming at Woodlawn & Other Tales Postcard # 72 The Telephone Girls of 1911
Postcard # 73 Civil War impacts Iowa City & UI Postcard # 74  Airmail at Iowa City
Postcard # 75 The Mechanics Academy Incubator Postcard # 76 Iowa City engineer-builder and football standout
Postcard # 77 The Iowa City Academy Experiment Postcard # 78 Hoover School Marking Its Semi-centennial 
Postcard # 79 Grave Robbery Nearly Killed New UI Med School   Postcard # 80 Horse Burials in Kinnick Stadium
Postcard # 81 Iowa City’s First Federal Aid Highway – in 1839   Postcard # 82 1918 Flu Killed 38 in Iowa City
Postcard # 83 Train to Kinnick – 1950s Style Postcard # 84 The Lee Recreation Center at 40
Postcard # 85 Exploring a 1904 City Directory Postcard # 86 Iowa City’s Century-Old Germs Lab
Postcard # 87 October 1860 Highlights Pioneer Iowa City Postcard # 88 A Favorite Iowa City Postcard
Postcard # 89 Mysterious University Buildings  

Bob Hibbs collects local postcards and other historic ephemera and researches history related to them.  

Copyright 2003-2010 by Bob Hibbs

He may be reached at 338-3175 or at hibbs@mchsi.com

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