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This photograph shows a view of Commercial Street in Emporia, Kansas. A sign for a drug store is visible on the left side of the picture. Many businesses are visible along the street, as well as horse-drawn carriages, an automobile, and a trolley. Several people are visible on the sidewalks or crossing the street.
Date: Between 1910 and 1919
Item Number: 213887
Call Number: FK2.L7 E.5 ComS *6
Holding Institution: Wisc. State Historical Society, 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 - Drugstores
Collections - Photograph
Community Life - Scenes and views - Business districts
Date - 1910s
Objects and Artifacts - Communication Artifacts - Documentary Artifact - Photograph
Places - Cities and towns - Emporia
Places - Counties - Lyon
Thematic Time Period - Age of Reform, 1880 - 1917 - Progressive Era, 1900 - 1916
Thematic Time Period - Industrialization and the National Economy, 1870 - 1920
Thematic Time Period - World War I, 1914 - 1919
Transportation - Automobiles
Transportation - Non-motorized - Carriages
Transportation - Non-motorized - Trolly
Type of Material - Photographs
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