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These photographs show the Carl Engel Drug, Grocery, and Hardware Store located in the 200 block of Poyntz Avenue in Manhattan, Kansas. The first photograph shows an interior view of the drug and grocery store. There are several men and women standing in the store, and display cases and shelves full of items for sale are also visible. The second photograph shows an interior view of the Engel Hardware Store. There are three men standing in the store, and visible hardware items include metal pots, kettles, cans, a display case full of scissors, brooms, and many other items. The third photograph shows an interior view of the drug and grocery store. There are three men and a woman standing in the store, and display cases and shelves full of items for sale are also visible. There is also a large potted plant visible on the left side of the picture. The fourth photograph is an exterior view of the Carl Engel Drug Store during the 1903 flood. Several men are visible standing on what appear to be rafts on the water in front of the store. One man is seen standing in the water with the water nearly up to his waist. The top of the building shows a construction date of 1885.
Date: 1902-1903
Item Number: 213765
Call Number: FK2.R5 M.73 M.Eng *5-8
Holding Institution: David Dary, 1968.
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 - Drugstores
Business and Industry - Retail - Grocery stores
Business and Industry - Retail - Hardware stores
Collections - Photograph
Community Life - Disasters and accidents - Floods
Date - 1900s - 1902
Date - 1900s - 1903
Objects and Artifacts - Communication Artifacts - Documentary Artifact - Photograph
Places - Cities and towns - Manhattan
Places - Counties - Riley
Thematic Time Period - Age of Reform, 1880 - 1917 - Progressive Era, 1900 - 1916
Thematic Time Period - Industrialization and the National Economy, 1870 - 1920
Transportation - Water - Rafts
Type of Material - Photographs
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