Sun Photos from the 1980s and 90s – Main Street
Downtown Mount Vernon is shown at Christmastime in a photo from the Sun. This image … Read more …
Mount Vernon Historic Preservation Commission
Exploring the Stories and History of Mount Vernon, Iowa

Here you will find the Commission’s extensive collection of photographs. Perhaps you are searching for pictures of previous year’s Chalk the Walk festival or wondering what the inside of the old Neff Furniture Store used to look like. Maybe you’re just here to browse. Whatever the reasons, just know that these photos capture the spirit of Mount Vernon.
Downtown Mount Vernon is shown at Christmastime in a photo from the Sun. This image … Read more …
Pat Coon and Betty Budack, employees at Pinhook Tailoring, sit at their sewing machines in … Read more …
Clyde Ties wears a warm jacket in a photo from the Sun. This image was … Read more …
Marie Studt sits at a desk in a photo from the April 22, 1982, edition … Read more …
In this photo from the March 19, 1981, edition of the Sun, Mount Vernon Band … Read more …
Boy scouts Todd Bothel and Bill Strauss stand together in a photo in the July … Read more …
Dan, Vicki, and Kim Stover stand beside (and in!) a tractor implement in a photo … Read more …
Gretchen Sutherland kneels beside her architectural drawings in a photo from the Sun. This image … Read more …
Rob Stoll shows a map of his store, Stoll’s Ben Franklin, in a photo from … Read more …
Rob Stoll stands in his shop, Stoll’s Ben Franklin, with a person in a dog … Read more …
Bob Stuckland puts a foot up on his UPS truck on a photo from the … Read more …
Verla Scheetz stands behind a desk in a photo from the August 27, 1981 edition … Read more …