Medical Building on left, next to South Hall, Old Capitol at center, Old North hall (then housed the library), Old Dental (barely visible) and Calvin Hall (then called Science Hall) on right.
Old North Hall on left, Calvin Hall (then called Science Hall) at center. The University's third observatory, constructed in 1891, is barely visible between these buildings, behind the trees.
View looking southwest. Jefferson Street angles to the right. Old Dental Building is visible on right, and Old Capitol on the left (behind trees), with Calvin Hall (then called Science Hall) at center.
View looking north. Calvin Hall (then called Science Hall) in background on right. Men and women walking away from Old Capitol, eastward on central walkway.
View looking southwest. Alva was the son of Timothy W. Townsend, who operated a photograph gallery in Iowa City 1866-1880, and again beginning in 1890. Alva worked in his father's studio beginning at age 17, around 1890. This information is from…
View looking northwest onto Clinton Street. Old Capitol central walk angles to the left. Calvin Hall (then called Science Hall) is obscured by trees on right.
