Below is a small sampling of the large photo
collection contained
in the Ely Community Historical Society Archives. Many old photos that
people do not wish to donate have been scanned digitally.
If you have old photos from the Ely, Western, or Shueyville area that you wish to
donate or have scanned, please contact us. Reprints of old photos can be
ordered from the archives collection for a small fee.
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Rogers Grove Church, (about 1915) once
located where Rogers
Grove Cemetery stands
on Ivanhoe Road northeast of Ely.
(Preservation Commission Collection) |
Rogers Grove School, taken in 1981
(Preservation Commission Collection, from Lenore Biderman) |
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Prairie Ridge School about 1910.
Once located on
Spanish Road north of Wright Bros Blvd
(Vavra Family Collection) |
1909 School in Ely
(ECHS Collection) |
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First Bohemian & Moravian Brethren Church, founded in
1858 with the church
being built in 1867-68; now First
Presbyterian Church west of Ely. Circa 1920. This church celebrated its
Sesquicentennial (150th year) in 2008
(Vavra Family collection) |
This general
store was located in the town of
Shueyville, which is west of Ely, and south of
Western,
just over the
Johnson County line. It
was a stage stop & housed the post office.
(Horak Collection) |
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A dance in the country near Ely, 1899
(Preservation Commission Collection) |
The main building at Western College, once located
in the
town of Western, taken June 11,1894.
(Leo & Irma Modracek Collection) |
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A Bohemian band standing in front of the
dance hall in Western, about 1910.
(Leo & Irma Modracek Collection)
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School children in Western, 1888
(Volesky/Jansa Collection)
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The L. J. Palda C.S.P.S. Lodge in Western was organized
about 1890/91 and later moved to Swisher, Iowa
(unknown year for photo) (Volesky/Jansa Collection)
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Above is a pieced-together map showing the area around
Ely from the
1875 A.T. Andreas Illustrated Historical
Atlas of the Sate of Iowa.
Click the picture to enlarge it
to a 228 KB .jpg image. |
