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Title: Brooklyn High School cheer, Brooklyn, Iowa, B.H.S.
Description: Card has small school banner with cheer: "Whoop em! Skoop em! Thru and thru. We do! We do! Why don't you? Always loyal, always true, B.H.S. scarlet and blue"--t.p.. Copyright 1908 with Acmegraph Co. Number 015.
Date Created: 1908
PID: grinnell:13918

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: Catholic Church, Brooklyn, Iowa, St. Patrick Catholic Church, Saint Patrick Catholic Church
Description: Looking northeast from Jackson Street in Brooklyn, Iowa, at a two story brick church originally erected in 1883 and rebuilt from a fire on August 2, 1911. It was dedicated in 1912. The two story parochial residence to the right was built in 1901. 215 Jackson Street, Brooklyn, Poweshiek County, Iowa. 1964 postmark. Number P127.
Date Created: 1964
PID: grinnell:13553

Title: First National Bank, Brooklyn, Iowa
Description: Looking northeast from Front Street. The bank was built in 1908 at a cost of $16,000. In 1925 a notice was posted on the bank door announcing it was closed by the board of directors and turned over to a federal bank examiner.
Date Created: 1915
PID: grinnell:14459

Title: Grace Methodist Episcopal Church, Grace M.E. Church, Brooklyn, Iowa
Description: Looking northwest at a two-story brick building. Located at 603 Clay St, Brooklyn, Poweshiek County, Iowa.
Date Created: 1910
PID: grinnell:13842

Title: High school, Brooklyn, Iowa
Description: Looking southwest at the original public school building built in 1914 at a cost of $50,000. A newer addition is to the south of the public building. 1956 postmark. Number 383-14.
Date Created: 1956
PID: grinnell:14447

Title: Hospital, Brooklyn, Iowa, Hotel Brooklyn, Brooklyn Hotel, Stephenson House
Description: Two story wooden building with front porch in Brooklyn, Iowa. It was built as a residence in 1875 and used as a saloon and then a hotel called the Stephenson House. Dr. C. D. Busby later purchased the hotel and made it into a hospital. The hospital was closed and in 1900 it again became a hotel and restaurant. Listed in the National Register of Historic Places. 1913 postmark. Number 16.
Date Created: 1913
PID: grinnell:13565

Title: I.O.O.F. Hall, Brooklyn, Iowa, Independent Order of Odd Fellows Hall, IOOF Hall
Description: Main Street. Number 20. Next door is Karr Bros. Dry Goods store owned and operated by brothers Joseph and William Karr. Despite the awning reading "Kerr," research shows that the family name was Karr.
Date Created: 1914
PID: grinnell:13485