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Louis Grube’s Old Stone House at Gowanus from the collection  of the Brooklyn Historical Society presents a bucolic vision of Brooklyn as it might have been in the 1700s (despite the depiction of Downtown Brooklyn in the background.) How did the Brooklyn census of 1706, also from the Brooklyn Historical Society, change your view of what Brooklyn might have been like? How did the information included in this document change your idea of the painting?