To order images and/or obtain permission to use them commercially, please contact the KSHS Reference Desk at KSHS.reference@ks.gov or 785-272-8681, ext. 117.
For more information see the Copyright and Permission FAQ.
This photograph shows the store of Brown the Live Druggist on Main Street, between 1st and 2nd streets in Ottawa, Kansas. Signs on the drug store advertise wall paper, cigars, school book exchange, picture framing, Tarrant's Aperient Seltzer, and Garfield Tea Fig Syrup. Other businesses visible include Peter Schuttler Wagons, a store, a restaurant, and E. W. Dowd Furniture and Undertaking. A few horse-drawn wagons and carriages are visible along the street.
Date: 1898
Item Number: 213869
Call Number: FK2.F3 O.5 MaiS *14
Holding Institution: Franklin County Historical Society, Ben Park, 1972.
Built Environment - Areas of Significance - Commerce
Built Environment - Areas of Significance - Health/Medicine
Built Environment - Function - Commerce/Trade - Business
Built Environment - Function - Commerce/Trade - Restaurant
Business and Industry - Health care - Pharmacies
Business and Industry - Occupations/Professions - Pharmacists
Business and Industry - Retail - Book and stationary stores
Business and Industry - Retail - Drugstores
Business and Industry - Retail - Farm implement dealers
Business and Industry - Retail - Furniture and appliances
Business and Industry - Retail - Tobacco - Cigars
Business and Industry - Services - Food and drink - Restaurants
Business and Industry - Services - Mortuaries - Undertaker
Collections - Photograph
Community Life - Scenes and views - Business districts
Date - 1890s - 1898
Objects and Artifacts - Communication Artifacts - Documentary Artifact - Photograph
Places - Cities and towns - Ottawa
Places - Counties - Franklin
Thematic Time Period - Age of Reform, 1880 - 1917 - Populism, 1890 - 1900
Thematic Time Period - Industrialization and the National Economy, 1870 - 1920
Transportation - Non-motorized - Carriages
Transportation - Non-motorized - Wagons
Type of Material - Photographs
http://www.kansasmemory.org/item/213869