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This panoramic view shows the east side of the 600 block on South Kansas Avenue in Topeka, Kansas. Businesses visible in the photograph are: Fidelity Savings State Bank, Kamber Clothes, All-In-One Sandwiches, J.E. McFarland Drug Company, Harris-Goar Company, The Commerce Hotel, and D. H. Forbes Hardware. Also visible are pedestrians, street lights, utility poles and power lines, and automobiles parked on the street.
Creator: Wolfe, Harold B., 1898-1966
Date: Between 1930 and 1939
Item Number: 203664
Call Number: FK2.S5 T.5 KanA.6S *38
KSHS Identifier: DaRT ID: 203664
Built Environment - Areas of Significance - Commerce
Built Environment - Function - Commerce/Trade - Financial Institution
Built Environment - Function - Commerce/Trade - Specialty Store
Business and Industry - Banking - Banks
Business and Industry - Retail - Clothing stores
Business and Industry - Retail - Department stores
Business and Industry - Retail - Drugstores
Business and Industry - Retail - Hardware stores
Collections - Photograph
Community Life - Scenes and views - Business districts
Date - 1930s
Objects and Artifacts - Communication Artifacts - Documentary Artifact - Photograph
Places - Cities and towns - Topeka
Places - Counties - Shawnee
Thematic Time Period - Great Depression and Dust Bowl, 1929 - 1941
Transportation - Automobiles
Type of Material - Photographs - Views - Panorama
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