105.571.4

Photographs of the oil portrait of John I. Blair, by Angelo Woodward which hangs in the balcony of the Ames Public Library. The painting is on permanent loan from Wesley Acres retirement community in Des Moines. John I. Blair, a railroad financier, platted the new town of Ames in 1864. For biographical details see 46.229.1-3. (See also: 108.593.1; 109.596.2-5; 108.594.5; 109.596.1)