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These photographs show four drug stores on Main Street in Ottawa, Kansas. The first photograph shows two drug stores right next to each other: C. L. Cowdery's Drug Store on the left, and the J. E. Youngberg Drug Company in the middle. An ice cream and soda shop is on the right. The second photograph shows the C. L. Becker Drug Store in the building second from the right. Other businesses visible include the C. B. Jones Shoe Store on the right, and the Dress Cutting Academy and The Up to Date store to the left of the drug store. The third photograph shows the S. H. Lucas Drug Store in the third building from the left. Other businesses visible on the block include The Racket; Mitchell Wagons; Topping Hardware Company; Davenport, Lathrop and Company; and J. D. Chamberlain Groceries, Bakery, and Feed. Several people are visible in front of the stores, and several horse-drawn buggies and carriages are visible on the street.
Date: 1898
Item Number: 213870
Call Number: FK2.F3 O.5 MaiS *20-22
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 - Dressmakers
Business and Industry - Occupations/Professions - Grocers
Business and Industry - Occupations/Professions - Pharmacists
Business and Industry - Occupations/Professions - Sales
Business and Industry - Retail - Bakeries
Business and Industry - Retail - Boot and shoe stores
Business and Industry - Retail - Drugstores
Business and Industry - Retail - Grocery stores
Business and Industry - Retail - Hardware stores
Business and Industry - Services - Food and drink - Soda fountain
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 - Buggy
Transportation - Non-motorized - Carriages
Type of Material - Photographs
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