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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: 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

Title: John Nathaniel Norris Family
Description: The John Nathaniel Norris family of Brooklyn, Iowa, circa 1888. Pictured are Samuel Corwin Norris, Elver Bernette Norris, Alsinda Mae Keysor Norris holding Flora Celia Norris, Jacob (Jake) Martin Norris, Silby Sophronia Norris, John Nathaniel Norris, Elzy Fayette Norris, Grace Deatte Norris, and Martha Lavina Norris. John Norris was a rural mail carrier in Poweshiek County, Iowa, who was blinded during the Civil War.
Date Created: 1888
PID: grinnell:12431

Title: Julia Annah Pierce Breniman
Description: Julia Annah Pierce Breniman sitting in her wheelchair and holding a bouquet of flowers. She was married to Christian D. Breniman on November 17, 1867. They lived in Brooklyn, Iowa, and had 7 children. Mrs. Breniman was confined to a wheelchair due to varicose veins.
Date Created: 1911
PID: grinnell:27268

Title: Landes Park, Brooklyn, Ia. P128, Landes Park, Brooklyn, Iowa
Description: View of shelter house, trees and picnic tables in Landes Park in Brooklyn, Iowa. Landes Park is located on Clay Street between E. Green and E. 3rd Streets. Published by L.L. Cook, Milwaukee, with an E.C.K. (E.C. Kropp) stampbox.
Date Created: 1956
PID: grinnell:27249

Title: On the Way to Berlin via Brooklyn, Iowa
Description: Troops from California march down Jackson Street in Brooklyn, Iowa, on their way to New York and then France during World War I. The Brooklyn Opera House is in the background. Velox postcard with diamonds in corners.
Date Created: 1914
PID: grinnell:27232

Title: Opera House, Brooklyn, Iowa -- 18
Description: Postcard view of the Opera House located at 115 Jackson Street in Brooklyn, Iowa. Postcard is addressed to Miss Elizabeth Schaefer, Oakdale, Iowa, and is postmarked December 7, 1911, in Brooklyn. Drake Community Library (Grinnell, Iowa) Archives. Miscellaneous photographs. Collection #17-7, Poweshiek County -- Other towns.
Date Created: 1911
PID: grinnell:13177

Title: Poweshiek County Road Poll Tax Receipt
Description: Receipt from the Poweshiek County Road Poll Tax to Wallace Breniman for labor performed. Dated September 9, 1936.
Date Created: 1936
PID: grinnell:27265

Title: Public School - Brooklyn, Iowa
Description: Black and white postcard view the Brooklyn Public School in Brooklyn, Iowa. Postcard published by E.C. Kropp Company.
Date Created: 1940
PID: grinnell:27241

Title: Senior Citizens of Brooklyn
Description: Elderly men of Brooklyn, Iowa, dressed in suits and most with beards around 1900. Seated from left to right: Gavin Lang, Rev. Benson, Mr. Calderwood, Mr. Coon. Standing, from left to right: Wm. Morrison, unidentified, Mr. Cummings.
Date Created: 1900
PID: grinnell:27260