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Title: Birds Eye View, Brooklyn, Iowa -- 30
Description: Postcard birds-eye view of Brooklyn, Iowa. Postcard is addressed to Miss Elizabeth Schaefer, Cedar Rapids, Iowa, and is postmarked October 4, 1912, in Brooklyn. Drake Community Library (Grinnell, Iowa) Archives. Miscellaneous photographs.Collection 17-7, Poweshiek County -- Other towns.
Date Created: 1912
PID: grinnell:13176

Title: Brooklyn Football Team
Description: Brooklyn High School (Brooklyn, Iowa) football team, circa 1919-1923. One of the men in the picture is Andrew E. Coon (1904-1926) who died in an automobile accident.
Date Created: 1920
PID: grinnell:6195

Title: Brooklyn High School Class of 1890
Description: Photo of the Brooklyn (Iowa) High School class of 1890. Front row, left to right: Harry Price, Estelle Coon, Arthur Cain. Back row: Jennie (Orr) Norris, Callie (Crawford) Murrison, Sadie (Calderwood) Dayton, Carrie (Wood) Baker, Kate (Scott) Lang, Thursia Manatt, Florence (Snyder) Talbott. Not pictured: Bert Manatt, Mabel (Johnson) Pierson.
Date Created: 1890
PID: grinnell:12472

Title: Brooklyn High School Students
Description: Brooklyn High School (Brooklyn, Iowa) students in the early 1920s. One of the young women in the front row is believed to be Florence (Peg) Coon Masteller (1908-2002).
Date Created: 1920
PID: grinnell:6196

Title: Civil War Veterans on the Courthouse Lawn
Description: Postcard photo of three Grand Army of the Republic members from Brooklyn, Iowa, relaxing on the grounds of the Poweshiek County Courthouse in Montezuma, Iowa, possibly at some sort of celebration. Left to right: Joe Karr, who drove the veterans to Montezuma; Hiram Frease, standing and holding the flag; Frank Dayton and Capt. George Phillips, both seated. Joe Karr was a dry goods merchant in Brooklyn, Iowa. The benches in front of the Karr store were favored places for Civil War veterans to sit and talk. Joe Karr, born in 1865, was not a Civil War veteran himself, although he may have been a GAR member through a relative.
Date Created: 1920
PID: grinnell:11767

Title: Community Welfare Workers, Brooklyn
Description: Members of the Brooklyn CWW Club (Community Welfare Workers). The group often put on plays and entertainments and are dressed in costume here. From left to right: Clara Johnson, Elizabeth Torrance, Abby Carmichael, Mabel Brannian, Mildred Torrance, Blanche Otto, Betty Gritsch.
Date Created: 1920
PID: grinnell:27257

Title: Gene Bartachek and Sons
Description: Gene Bartachek and sons in front of the trencher and dozer of Bartachek Tiling and Earthmoving. From left to right: John (age 17), Lavern (age 14) and Gene (age 38).
Date Created: 1970
PID: grinnell:27173

Title: Grace United Methodist Church
Description: Images of Grace United Methodist Church, Brooklyn, Iowa, and its predecessors. The first church was a simple frame church built in 1862. The next church was built in 1877, and the current church was built in 1914.
PID: grinnell:12861

Title: Grinnell Granite and Marble Works Receipt
Description: Receipt from Grinnell Granite and Marble Works to Luetta Decker, dated March, 1896, in the amount of $12.00 for a marker in Kent Cemetery, Poweshiek County, Iowa.
Date Created: 1896
PID: grinnell:6198