The Telegraph-Herald Sunday December 4, 1938 Famed Fort to Be Rebuilt in East Dubuque Drawings by Burd, Bartels, Eitel and Cullen. Engineers This drawing shows the proposed park on the heights above the railroad tunnel in East Dubuque. In the left foreground are the tennis courts, shower rooms, and the famous Fort Perrot of early Dubuque […]
The Telegraph-Herald Sunday May 29, 1938 Dubuque Under 5 Flags—How City Developed This is how Dubuque looked in 1846 from the hills overlooking what is now East Dubuque The identity of the artist who sat on a hill just south of the East Dubuque bridge approach and made the above sketch is unknown. In the […]
The Telegraph-Herald Sunday December 1, 1940 ‘THE WEB OF LIFE’ Another Story of ‘Beginning’s of Dubuque’ —Telegraph Herald Photo This little chapel, still standing on a knoll on the Henry Glues farm just south of Rockdale on Route 4, is emblematic of the powerful force that religion was in frontier Dubuque. This religious background, as […]
The Telegraph-Herald Monday August 8, 1938 THE 82-YEAR-OLD FULTON SCHOOL (Central Avenue and Twenty-Fifth Street) THE 81-YEAR-OLD LINCOLN SCHOOL (West Fifth and Nevada Streets) THE 68-YEAR-OLD BRYANT SCHOOL (Mt. Loretta Avenue—a Wooden Building) THE 55-YEAR-OLD MARSHALL SCHOOL (1450 Rhomberg Avenue) — […]
The Telegraph-Herald Sunday November 17, 1940 Native Dubuquer Writes of ‘Beginnings of Dubuque’ Above is a sketch of the Dubuque of 1846 by the noted Dubuque artist, Alex Simplot. The sketch illustrates the Dubuque of the period discussed by William J. Petersen, native Dubuquer, in the accompanying article dealing with the “Beginnings of Dubuque.” it was […]
The Dubuque Daily Tribune Wednesday May 29, 1940 THIS ENGINE DOESN’T LOOK MUCH LIKE THE ZEPHYR “John D. Bush” was the name given this streamlined (?) railroad engine it was the first to haul trains out of Dubuque. It ran on the Chicago, Dubuque, and Minneapolis Railroad line in 1872. (more…)
The Telegraph-Herald Sunday February 26, 1911 The Man That Put it Over: Heeb, Anthony F, Native Son Anthony Fritz Heeb is his full name. But after you know him a while he’s “Tony,” and that’s as far as he is tony. All the rest of the way he’s classy, and there’s some class to him. […]
The Telegraph-Herald Sunday February 26, 1911 Dubuque, Iowa’s Premier Manufacturing City, Secures Largest Factory of Brunswick-Balke-Collender Co. Key City’s Newest Acquisition Means Investment of Hundreds of Thousands of Dollars and Employment to More Than a Thousand High Priced Woodworkers, the Heads of Families By October 1st of the present year the Brunswick-Balke-Collender company […]
The Telegraph-Herald Sunday August 25, 1940 NEW SWITCH ENGINE HERE —Telegraph-Herald Photo Pictured above is the new-type 41-ton Diesel switch engine that was tested in Dubuque Friday by the Burlington Railroad. Standing on the engine platform at the left Is R. R. Skemp, conductor, and seated In the cab is Dick Graf, traveling engineer. The […]
The Telegraph-Herald Sunday September 18, 1938 How Dubuque’s Population Has Grown BIG SPURT MADE IN 1854 TO 1857 Ups and Downs of Growth Revealed by Graph (Editor’s note: The date for this story and the accompanying graph were prepared in the Dubuque office of the Federal Writers’ Project. This represents only a minor phase […]