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Title: Brooklyn Hotel, Brooklyn Historical Hotel, Brooklyn, Iowa
Description: Hotel Brooklyn was built as a home in 1875. The original builder used the building as a saloon before it became a hotel known as the "Stephenson House". Listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Number 861057. Dr. C. D. Busby purchased the hotel and made it not only his residence but also turned it into a hospital. He later closed the hospital, but continued to live there. It was later used again as a hotel and restaurant.
Date Created: 1990
PID: grinnell:13351

Title: Brooklyn Supreme, world's largest horse, owned by C. G. Good & Son, Ogden, Iowa
Description: Brooklyn Supreme, world's largest horse. Weight 3200, height 19 1/2 hands, measures 10 ft. 2 in. around the body, wears a 40 inch collar, takes 30 inches of iron to make one shoe, 14 years old, a pure bred Belgain stallion. Owned by C.G. Good & Son, Ogden, Iowa. Exhibitied by Ralph M. Fogleman, Callender, Iowa.
Date Created: 1950
PID: grinnell:14034

Title: Brown Family
Description: Postcard view of the Brown family inside their Hickory Grove home in Jasper County, Iowa. Middle row on the left are Izora and Emory Brown. Nora Belle Brown is in the back row on the right. Velox stamp box on verso.
Date Created: 1910
PID: grinnell:12017

Title: Brown Hotel, Fourth and Keo, Des Moines, Iowa, Iowa Department for the Blind and Physically Handicapped
Description: Looking southwest at a 11 story brick and stone building. Verso says: Brown Hotel, Fourth and Keosauqua, 244 Rooms, Moderately Priced, Iowa's Largest Garage across the Street, Coffee Shoppe. Located at 524 Fourth Street, Des Moines, Polk County, Iowa. Number 13 AT 119.
Date Created: 1960
PID: grinnell:16847

Title: Brown's Shoe Fit Grand Opening
Description: The grand opening for Brown's Shoe Fit Co. on 909 Main Street in Grinnell, Iowa. KGRN, and Spurgeon's are also pictured. Drake Community Library (Grinnell, Iowa) Archives. Main Street Slides, p.3, slide 14.
Date Created: 1990
PID: grinnell:21269

Title: Broyles Farm in Winter
Description: The Charles Broyles farm near Barnes City, Iowa, in winter, probably in the 1920s. Cattle are in a fenced yard in the foreground, a huge woodpile is stacked near several outbuildings and the farmhouse is visible in the rear right.
Date Created: 1920
PID: grinnell:12079

Title: Bruce Ford Hammond
Description: Bruce Ford Hammond, youngest son of Walter and Hattie Child Hammond. Photo taken by Child Studio, Grinnell, Iowa.
Date Created: 1923
PID: grinnell:20429