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This photograph shows an exterior view of the Kirby Building in Howard, Kansas, with the Kasson Drug Store in the building. A grocery store is partially visible to the left, and a store for school books, supplies, paints, oils, wallpaper, window glass putty, varnish, and jewelry is visible on the right. Several men and a boy are seen posing for the photograph in front of the stores. The Kirby building later burned.
Date: Between 1890 and 1920
Item Number: 213633
Call Number: FK2.E2 H.73 M. *2
Holding Institution: Henry Bennett, 1972.
Built Environment - Areas of Significance - Commerce
Built Environment - Areas of Significance - Health/Medicine
Built Environment - Function - Commerce/Trade - Business
Business and Industry - Health care - Pharmacies
Business and Industry - Retail - Book and stationary stores
Business and Industry - Retail - Drugstores
Business and Industry - Retail - Grocery stores
Business and Industry - Retail - Jewelry stores
Collections - Photograph
Date - 1890s
Date - 1900s
Objects and Artifacts - Communication Artifacts - Documentary Artifact - Photograph
Places - Cities and towns - Howard
Places - Counties - Elk
Thematic Time Period - Age of Reform, 1880 - 1917
Thematic Time Period - Age of Reform, 1880 - 1917 - Populism, 1890 - 1900
Thematic Time Period - Age of Reform, 1880 - 1917 - Progressive Era, 1900 - 1916
Thematic Time Period - Industrialization and the National Economy, 1870 - 1920
Type of Material - Photographs
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