PostcardIndex

Saturday Postcards

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the Author/Historian Bob Hibbs.

Related Article: "Iowa City": by Bob Hibbs

Bob Hibbs

Postcard # 1 Rivers Attracted Pioneers to Region	Postcard # 2 Early Iowa City
Postcard # 3 Johnson County Courthouse	Postcard # 4 Old Brick Stories
Postcard # 5 Stories of St Mary's	Postcard # 6 Early University Genius
Postcard # 7 Retrieving Little Dutch Hall	Postcard # 8 Vigilantes, but no County Jail!
Postcard # 9 Drunken Pigs and Grazing on the Pentacrest	Postcard # 10 Clinton Street Charm
Postcard #11 Englert Theater, Inside and Out	Postcard # 12 Oakdale TB Sanitarium
Postcard # 13 Coralville Mills Aplenty	Postcard # 14 Iowa City's Little Bell-That-Could
Postcard #15 Chautauqua--Iowa City Style	Postcard #16 Steamboating at Iowa City
Postcard # 17 University Medical Building 1882-1901	Postcard # 18 Byzantine Unity Hall
Postcard # 19 The Bells of Old Capitol	Postcard # 20 Mechanics Academy Victory Bell
Postcard # 21 The Black Angel of Oakland Cemetery	Postcard # 22 Iowa City's First Capitol
Postcard # 23 Inside Butler's Capitol	Postcard # 24 Ode to Eagle Country Market
Postcard # 25 Iowa City Glass	Postcard # 26 Bunkers Below Engineering Hall
Postcard # 27 The Burkley Home, Ardenia	Postcard # 28 Civil War Impacts Iowa City, UI
Postcard # 29 Crandic links Iowa City, Cedar Rapids	Postcard # 30 Generating Depression-Era Fun
Postcard # 31 The Fine Arts at Iowa	Postcard # 32 Pioneer Money Problems
Postcard # 33 Reusing Building Parts	Postcard # 34 Football Before Kinnick Stadium
Postcard # 35 Old Cap Image Really Gets Around	Postcard # 36 Visiting a 1900 Iowa City Map
Postcard # 37 Local Map Shows Minnehaha & Clarksville	Postcard # 38 Streetcars Roam Iowa City
Postcard # 39 Sky Perch Caps Downtown	Postcard #40 Football Image Sparks Insight
Postcard # 41 Thanksgiving on the Battleship Iowa	Postcard # 42 The Coldren Opera House
Postcard # 43 Grant Wood – an Iowa City institution	Postcard #44 Nile Kinnick – Iowa’s legendary football player
Postcard # 45 Charles Schaeffer – Champion of UI’s Pentacrest	Postcard #46 Sam Kirkwood – the local man and Iowa governor
Postcard # 47 Exploring the Old North Side	Postcard # 48 Exploring the Old East Side
Postcard # 49 Iowa City’s Hutchinson Quarry	Postcard # 50 Close Family Triumph & Tragedy
Postcard # 51 Blacks in Pioneer Iowa City	Postcard # 52 Iowa City Paves Over the Mud
Postcard # 53 Coal Gas in Antique Iowa City	Postcard # 54 Iowa City’s Early Public Schools
Postcard # 55 Early Private and Parochial Schools	Postcard # 56 “Drunk or Rich” in Iowa City
Postcard # 57 Johnson County’s Namesake – a good fit	Postcard # 58 Digital Restoration of an Artifact
Postcard # 59 1909 Pushball in City Park	Postcard # 60 Horse Power for Jessup Hall
Postcard # 61 The Congregational Neighborhood	Postcard # 62 Pioneer Presbyterians – A Stormy Bunch
Postcard # 63 Cigars and Local Brews	Postcard # 64 Calvin Hall Serene on Pentacrest
Postcard # 65 Lone Tree’s Historic Heritage	Postcard # 66 Iowa Government Exits Old Capitol
Postcard # 67 1,400 Miles by Handcart from Iowa City	Postcard # 68 Iowa City builders Johnson and Snyder
Postcard # 69 Affecters of University Hospitals	Postcard # 70 Tornado in Iowa City – 1859
Postcard # 71 Swimming at Woodlawn & Other Tales	Postcard # 72 The Telephone Girls of 1911
Postcard # 73 Civil War impacts Iowa City & UI	Postcard # 74 Airmail at Iowa City
Postcard # 75 The Mechanics Academy Incubator	Postcard # 76 Iowa City engineer-builder and football standout
Postcard # 77 The Iowa City Academy Experiment	Postcard # 78 Hoover School Marking Its Semi-centennial
Postcard # 79 Grave Robbery Nearly Killed New UI Med School	Postcard # 80 Horse Burials in Kinnick Stadium
Postcard # 81 Iowa City’s First Federal Aid Highway – in 1839	Postcard # 82 1918 Flu Killed 38 in Iowa City
Postcard # 83 Train to Kinnick – 1950s Style	Postcard # 84 The Lee Recreation Center at 40
Postcard # 85 Exploring a 1904 City Directory	Postcard # 86 Iowa City’s Century-Old Germs Lab
Postcard # 87 October 1860 Highlights Pioneer Iowa City	Postcard # 88 A Favorite Iowa City Postcard
Postcard # 89 Mysterious University Buildings

Bob Hibbs collects local postcards and other historic ephemera and researches history related to them.