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Title: 436 East Street, Frank F. Almy residence, S. F. Cooper residence
Description: Photograph of the house at 436 East Street, built in the 1860s for Samuel F. Cooper. The house sat on 40 acres well back from East Street, and its porte cochere was one of the few in town. The house was burned down by design in 1978.
Date Created: 1920
PID: grinnell:3261

Title: Arbor Lake in Winter
Description: View of Arbor Lake in Grinnell, Iowa, in the winter with ice skaters. The boat house is visible to the left and a warming house is on the right. Photo by Cornelia Clarke.
Date Created: 1920
PID: grinnell:11900

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 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: Chester Center Store
Description: Photograph of Chester Center Store in Chester Township, Iowa, which was destroyed by fire in 1939. Pictured are H. G. Sutton, Beck Sutton, Mildred Sutton, and Aline Lidtka Petersen. Photograph was taken in the late 1920s
Date Created: 1920
PID: grinnell:3370

Title: City Park, Grinnell, Ia. 753, City Park, Grinnell, Iowa 753
Description: View from the center of Central Park in Grinnell, Iowa, looking northwest towards the intersection of Broad Street and Fourth Avenue. The Congregational Church and Merchants' National Bank are visible at the intersection. Horses and buggies are parked to the north of the park; automobiles are parked along Broad Street. Kruxo postcard. Drake Community Library (Grinnell, Iowa) Archives. Miscellaneous photographs. Collection #17-5, Views of Grinnell.
Date Created: 1920
PID: grinnell:12372

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: Cleland School
Description: Students at the Cleland school in rural Poweshiek County, Iowa, about 1920. The Cleland School was probably the rural school located on the northeast corner of Section 19, in Pleasant Township, about a half mile west of Ewart. The school was adjacent to the William Cleland farm Front row, from left to right: Don Cleland, Waunita Johnson, Helen Cleland, Pauline Johnson. Back row: Unidentified teacher, Lela Farley, Genevieve Johnson, Lora Cleland, Eugene McCormick, Louise Cox.
Date Created: 1920
PID: grinnell:20657