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This colored postcard shows a view of Minnesota Avenue looking east from 6th Street in Kansas City, Kansas. A business building with a large sign reading, "G. Q. Lake, Prescription Druggist," is visible on the left side of the street. Several other business buildings are visible along the street including one the says "Auditorium, Billiards Bowling". A horse-drawn carriage is visible on the left side of the picture, while several automobiles and a street railway car are visible.
Date: Between 1900 and 1919
Item Number: 213930
Call Number: FK2.W7 K.5 MinA.6S *1
Holding Institution: Lois A. Hodge, 1973.
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 - Occupations/Professions - Pharmacists
Business and Industry - Retail - Drugstores
Collections - Photograph
Community Life - Recreation and Sports - Sports - Billiards
Community Life - Recreation and Sports - Sports - Bowling
Community Life - Scenes and views - Business districts
Date - 1900s
Date - 1910s
Objects and Artifacts - Communication Artifacts - Documentary Artifact - Photograph
Objects and Artifacts - Communication Artifacts - Documentary Artifact - Postcard
Places - Cities and towns - Kansas City
Places - Counties - Wyandotte
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 - Streetcars & Trolleys
Type of Material - Photographs
Type of Material - Postcards
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