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Title: Ford's Cafe
Description: Unidentified man standing outside of Ford's Cafe on Jackson Street in Brooklyn, Iowa, circa 1940.
Date Created: 1940
PID: grinnell:20682

Title: Friends on Jackson Street
Description: Friends pose on Jackson Street in Brooklyn, Iowa, circa 1940. From left to right: Bob McWilliams, Hildega Heistman, Virgil "Bud" Sherwood.
Date Created: 1940
PID: grinnell:20684

Title: Jackson Street in Brooklyn
Description: An unidentified man poses on Jackson Street in Brooklyn, Iowa, near Ford's Cafe, the Schmitz dental office, and the Beauty Shop. Circa 1940.
Date Created: 1940
PID: grinnell:20687

Title: Louise Skidmore and Hilda Heistman on Jackson Street
Description: Louise Skidmore (center) and Hilda Heistman (left) on Jackson Street in Brooklyn, Iowa, circa 1940.
Date Created: 1940
PID: grinnell:20688

Title: Newburg Elevator
Description: The Newburg (Iowa) elevator in the early 1940s. The elevator was built in 1917 and demolished in 2014. Itel Gillespie and Mac (Glenn) McCarel are standing in front of the elevator. On the verso of the photo is a handwritten history of the elevator and the town which was probably written in the late 1960s. It reads: Newburg founded 1878. 100 years ago there were 2 grain elevators constructed of wood. Then in 1917-1918 a poured concrete elevator and a block warehouse were built and still in use. 3 grocery stores that burned. The present building that still stands was a grocery store, but now is an apartment house. The railroad depot was demolished about 5 years ago. A water tank furnished water to the steam engines. A stock yard was available for the farmers cattle and hogs. We had our own post office. The creamery building still stands and did a route business and part of the building used as an ice house. We once had a prosperous bank, but it closed in 1933. There have been 2 blacksmith shops, a lumber yard. The farmers owned a telephone switchboard. One of the residents owned and operated a Model T agency. At one time we had 2 churches, the Church of God and the Congregational, this is now known as the UCC. A KP hall served as community center where the women gathered to sew during World War I. The lower floor housed new farm machinery. Our school is still operating and it now serves just 6th graders and one kindergarten class. In 1964 a newly formed organization known as Newburg Community Service Association dug a 225 foot well. It serves all homes business, school and church.
Date Created: 1940
PID: grinnell:20602

Title: On Jackson Street
Description: Bob McWilliams, Hildega Heistman, and Virgil "Bud" Sherwood pose on Jackson Street in Brooklyn, Iowa, circa 1940.
Date Created: 1940
PID: grinnell:20686

Title: Street Scene, Grinnell, Iowa
Description: Postcard view of Fourth Avenue, Grinnell, Iowa, looking west from the corner of Fourth Avenue and Main Street. Rexall Drug on the right, 1940s vintage automobiles parked on the street. Steeple of Congregational Church visible in background.
Date Created: 1940
PID: grinnell:5938

Title: Win a Rabbit Contest
Description: Max Breniman, on the right, won a rabbit in a "guess the number of jelly beans in a jar" contest at a Brooklyn, Iowa, grocery store, circa 1945.
Date Created: 1946
PID: grinnell:27222