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Birds Eye View, Brooklyn, Iowa -- 30
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Description
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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.
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Date Created
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1912
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PID
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grinnell:13176
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Title
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Christian Breniman
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Description
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Christian Breniman sitting in his backyard in Brooklyn, Iowa.
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Date Created
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1900
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PID
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grinnell:27251
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Title
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Civil War Veterans on the Courthouse Lawn
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Description
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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.
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Date Created
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1920
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PID
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grinnell:11767
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Title
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Community Welfare Workers, Brooklyn
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Description
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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.
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Date Created
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1920
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PID
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grinnell:27257
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Title
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Ford's Cafe
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Description
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Unidentified man standing outside of Ford's Cafe on Jackson Street in Brooklyn, Iowa, circa 1940.
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Date Created
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1940
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PID
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grinnell:20682
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Title
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Friends on Jackson Street
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Description
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Friends pose on Jackson Street in Brooklyn, Iowa, circa 1940. From left to right: Bob McWilliams, Hildega Heistman, Virgil "Bud" Sherwood.
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Date Created
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1940
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PID
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grinnell:20684
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Title
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Front and Jackson Street
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Description
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Unidentified man standing on the corner of Front and Jackson Street in Brooklyn, Iowa. The angled building behind him was the meat locker run by the Tony family.
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Date Created
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1940
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PID
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grinnell:20685
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Title
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Gene Bartachek and Sons
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Description
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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).
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Date Created
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1970
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PID
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grinnell:27173
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Title
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Grace United Methodist Church
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Description
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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.
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PID
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grinnell:12861
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Title
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Jackson Street in Brooklyn
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Description
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An unidentified man stands on Jackson Street in Brooklyn, Iowa, in the 1940s. St. Patrick Catholic Church is visible in the background.
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Date Created
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1940
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PID
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grinnell:20683