Glass Plate Negative: Fire Engine and man watching on bicycle, Circa 1900

SERIES I: Personal Correspondence, contains general and personal correspondence to and from Garnet Brown including all major topics and hobbies with which he was involved. Also contains checks, sales slips, and postcards. This series is arranged chronologically.

SERIES II: Garnet C. Brown, contains family sketches, awards, special interest stories, a paper G. Brown read at a Kansas City meeting, news clippings, pamphlets, booklets, and newsletters.

SERIES III: Work of Garnet Brown: Dow Chemical Company and Heli Coil Corporation, contains correspondence, diagrams, blueprints, drawings, bulletins, magazines, brochures, manuals, handbooks, and photographs documenting the years G. Brown worked with these companies. The records are arranged chronologically.

SERIES IV: Articles, Stories, Verses, contains original handwritten stories and verses by G. Brown. Includes other stories and verses saved by G. Brown.

SERIES V: Miniature Cannons, documents G. Brown’s hobby of modeling small cannons. This series contains all of his blueprints, drawings, and diagrams of his handmade miniature cannons.

SERIES VI: Notebooks and Address Books, include notebooks, hard bound books, address books, magazines, and booklets owned by G. Brown.

SERIES VII: Hobbies and Interests of Garnet Brown, contains news clippings, pamphlets, magazines, booklets, tickets, brochures, diagrams, manuals, and handbooks. The files are arranged by major topic of interests: aviation, steamboats, boats and riverboats, antique cars, and guns.

SERIES VIII: Photographs, consists of all types of photographs which include pictures of Garnet Brown and relatives, his activities with boats and antique cars, travels through Italy, and battlefields (Gettysburg). The photographs are arranged chronologically.

SERIES IX: Glass Plate Negatives and Lantern Slides, contains glass plate negatives depicting scenes such as a river, mills, covered bridge, Miamisburg train station, an overturned locomotive, and fire engine. The first eleven glass plates are size 4” x 5”, and negatives 12-17 measure 8” x 10”. The lantern slides were used in G. Brown's speech at the Kansas City Meeting concerning air screws.