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…
From "A history of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, the University of Iowa, 1848-1980" by William Charles Keettel. John Shrader was professor and head of the Dept. of Obstetrics and Diseases of Women, University of Iowa College of…