Lakeside Laboratory, founded by Dr. Thomas Macbride in 1909, is a field station of Iowa's state universities and provides summer classes and research opportunities to college students.
Grain elevator and other buildings next to tracks. Sign for Steamboat Rock with rails on ground. "Looks N. Sims photo, Cornell, IA 50313"--Photograph verso.
This is an early 1900's photograph taken of a steam-operated derrick operating in the outskirts of Oskaloosa, Iowa. Derricks were used to help pick up derailed box cars on the sides of the railroad.
