1915

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   Citation: 194.1104.2-5 (Full image size: 64Kb)

The Lucian Tilden family in their automobile (note steering wheel is on the right side of vehicle) upon returning to Ames from a trip to Vermont where Lucian Tilden was born. The car, a Reo, is crossing back into Iowa on the Mississippi River Bridge at Clinton, Iowa where they are stopped to pay a toll. Behind the wheel of the Reo is Lu Tilden; in the back seat are his wife Ruth Duncan Tilden and their children Harriet and Clark.

   Citation: 203.1151.1-3 (Full image size: 79Kb)

The first concrete bridge built in Ames was over Squaw Creek on Stange Road, north of the Iowa State College campus. It was built by prison laborers. Tom MacDonald, who headed the Iowa Highway Commission at this time, initiated the program using prisoners for construction work. He used prisoners from the facility in Anamosa, Iowa, to construct many of the roads and paths on the campus of Iowa State and to construct this bridge. This photograph is dated 1915. The bridge was replaced in 1965.

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