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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: Jennie, Anna and Edna Mae
Description: Edna Mae Meldrem and Jennie and Anna Otto pose at a family gathering sitting on the running board of an automobile.
Date Created: 1920
PID: grinnell:27256