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…
Old South Hall (used by Collegiate and Medical departments during this time), Old Capitol, and Old North Hall (library). Old North Hall burned in 1897, along with three-fourths of the library books. By Chicago Lithographing Co.
Old South Hall and Old Capitol on the Pentacrest. Engraving by Middleton, Strobridge & Co., Cincinnati, Ohio. This image appears as the frontispiece to the 1863-64 and 1864-65 General Catalogs.
