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Citation: 105.575.1 (Full image size: 56Kb)
Jerry Sexton, long the gardener at Iowa State College, took on the job of supervising the planting and care of the Ames Depot gardens after 1909. Here he is shown with the flower bed that informed passengers that this was AMES.
Citation: 11.48B.1-2 (Full image size: 30Kb)
Westbound train near Depot, around 1908.
Citation: 12.51.3 (Full image size: 67Kb)
Chicago & North Western Depot from north side. Shows entrance off of Main Street,around 1908.
Citation: 13.58.1 (Full image size: 43Kb)
C & NW Station viewed from west. Shows westbound trains at right and eastbound train at left. Yard gardens and walkways at left, around 1908. Postal photograph produced in Germany (before improvement of photographic process in U.S.) Originally in color. Distributed by Loughran & Bauer, druggists and publishers in Ames. (See also: 14.65.5; 15.70.2)
Citation: 23.115.1 (Full image size: 60Kb)
View of Chicago & North Western Railroad Depot gardens from a point west of the depot. Landscaping was the design and under the supervision of Iowa State College horticulturalist Jerry Sexton (1842-1920). (See also: 78.403.4-5; 89.473.5)
Citation: 23.115.3 (Full image size: 45Kb)
C & NW Depot from north side showing whole spread of depot in 1907 or 1908. Crushed rock gravel drive in front, plantings in protective area between street and drive area.
Citation: 26.129b.4 (Full image size: 64Kb)
C & NW Depot Park looking toward Onondaga (Main) Street beyond the trees.
Citation: 7.24G.2 (Full image size: 27Kb)
C & NW flower bed spelling "AMES" at its new depot, around 1908. From Margaret Mitchell Brown's album.
Citation: 76.395.3 (Full image size: 102Kb)
Grounds at the Chicago & North Western station in Ames, taken around 1908. The side shown, with the word "AMES" spelled out in plantings, faced the tracks so that people on trains passing through the station grounds could see the name of the town. The railroad employed the man who had been the gardner for Iowa State College, Jerry Sexton, who was also responsible for all the plantings at all the stations throughout the state of Iowa.
Citation: 88.468.4 (Full image size: 57Kb)
West side of the Chicago & North Western Railroad Depot in Ames as seen from Grand Avenue. Judging from the size of nearby plantings, the year is 1908. The siding at the immediate right was for trains headed for Des Moines. Photo is from color postcard.
DEPOT, RAILROAD
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