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Ames & College Railway traveling through campus.

Ames & College Railway traveling through campus.

Title

Ames & College Railway traveling through campus.

Description

The Ames & College Railway (The Dinkey)is traveling through central campus with the Campanile in the background. The presence of vertical borders on the edges of the photograph suggest that it was taken from an upper story window of a campus building, possibly Carrie Chapman Catt Hall (Old Botany).
The Ames & College Railway, better known as the Dinkey, provided transportation between the City of Ames, Iowa and the Iowa Agricultural College (Iowa State University).� As a joint venture of Ames and the College, the Dinkey began operating on July 4, 1891. The Ames & College Railway was sold to the Fort Dodge, Des Moines and Southern Railroad in 1907. That year the Dinkey was replaced with an electric streetcar, known as the interurban.

Creator

Iowa State University

Source

04-08-I.Dinkey.182-02-005

Publisher

Iowa State University Library Special Collections: http://www.add.lib.iastate.edu/spcl/index.html

Date

n.d.
2012-10-29

Rights

U.S. and international copyright laws protect this digital image. Commercial use or distribution of the image is not permitted without prior permission of the copyright holder. For permission to use the digital image, please contact Iowa State University Library, Special Collections archives@iastate.edu For reproductions see: http://www.add.lib.iastate.edu/spcl/services/photfees.html

Relation

University Photographs; http://www.add.lib.iastate.edu/spcl/collections/images.html

Format

Photograph
15.3 x 10.1 cm

Type

Image
Image

Identifier

04-08-I.Dinkey.182-02-005
https://digitalcollections.lib.iastate.edu/