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This photograph shows a view of the northwest corner of 2nd and Main streets in Ottawa, Kansas, with a store for groceries and wooden ware on the corner and a drug store next to it. There are a few people visible standing near the corner, and a horse-drawn wagon is visible in front of the buildings.
Date: Between 1870 and 1879
Item Number: 213868
Call Number: FK2.F3 O.5 *5
Holding Institution: George Eastman House, 1957.
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
Business and Industry - Retail - Grocery stores
Collections - Photograph
Community Life - Scenes and views - Business districts
Date - 1870s
Objects and Artifacts - Communication Artifacts - Documentary Artifact - Photograph
Places - Cities and towns - Ottawa
Places - Counties - Franklin
Thematic Time Period - Cattle Drives, 1867 - 1885
Thematic Time Period - Immigration and Settlement, 1854 - 1890
Thematic Time Period - Industrialization and the National Economy, 1870 - 1920
Thematic Time Period - Trails, 1821 - 1880
Transportation - Non-motorized - Wagons
Type of Material - Photographs
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