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This photograph shows a street scene in Fargo Springs, Kansas, with the G. S. Smith Drug Store visible on the left side of the picture. Other businesses visible in the photograph include the Joseph M. Hawkins Land Office and J. L. Wells Real-Estate Office. Other unidentified buildings are visible. Several people are visible standing outside of buildings, and visible in the background are a horse-drawn carriage and a windmill.
Date: Between 1885 and 1897
Item Number: 213794
Call Number: FK2.S4 F.5 *1
Holding Institution: Mr. And Mrs. Lee Larrabee, 1955.
Built Environment - Areas of Significance - Commerce
Built Environment - Areas of Significance - Health/Medicine
Built Environment - Function - Agriculture/Subsistence - Agricultural Outbuilding - Windmills
Built Environment - Function - Commerce/Trade - Business
Business and Industry - Health care - Pharmacies
Business and Industry - Occupations/Professions - Realtors
Business and Industry - Retail - Drugstores
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 - Fargo Springs
Places - Counties - Seward
Thematic Time Period - Age of Reform, 1880 - 1917
Thematic Time Period - Age of Reform, 1880 - 1917 - Populism, 1890 - 1900
Thematic Time Period - Immigration and Settlement, 1854 - 1890
Thematic Time Period - Industrialization and the National Economy, 1870 - 1920
Transportation - Non-motorized - Carriages
Type of Material - Photographs
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