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This photograph shows an exterior view of a drugstore in Arkansas City, Kansas. The drugstore sign in front of the store is only partially readable, but the traditional mortar and pestle pharmacy symbol is visible at the center of the top of the store façade. The store to the left of the drugstore has a sign for shoes, and the store to the right has signs for game furs, produce, and beeswax oil. Several men and a child are visible standing in front of the buildings.
Date: Between 1885 and 1895
Item Number: 213615
Call Number: FK2.C10 A.73 M. *1
Holding Institution: Elmer Wagner, 1967.
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 - Boot and shoe stores
Business and Industry - Retail - Drugstores
Business and Industry - Retail - Produce companies
Collections - Photograph
Community Life - Scenes and views - Business districts
Date - 1880s
Date - 1890s
Objects and Artifacts - Communication Artifacts - Documentary Artifact - Photograph
Places - Cities and towns - Arkansas City
Places - Counties - Cowley
Thematic Time Period - Age of Reform, 1880 - 1917
Thematic Time Period - Age of Reform, 1880 - 1917 - Populism, 1890 - 1900
Thematic Time Period - Cattle Drives, 1867 - 1885
Thematic Time Period - Immigration and Settlement, 1854 - 1890
Thematic Time Period - Industrialization and the National Economy, 1870 - 1920
Type of Material - Photographs
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