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Two men are standing near pool tables in this interior view of Agard & La Barge, a billard parlor and cigar store. A glass display case filled with open cigar boxes has been positioned near the front of the store. A spitoon is visible on the floor…

Numerous products in small boxes, bottles and cans are neatly displayed on wall-mounted shelves and glass display cases in this interior view of the H. E. Callahan Drug Store. A male clerk is seated behind a glass display case in the center of the…

This interior view is of a long, narrow room in the Healey Hardware and Seed Store. In the left foreground of the photograph is a scale. On top of the scale is a partially obscured sign for the business. The letters “DWARE and SE” are visible. Along…

This photograph was taken looking down a wide aisle in the fabric department of the Levi James & Company department store. A woman, wearing a large hat and a two-piece suit with a long skirt, is seated at a counter looking at a sample, or pattern…

Dressed in a dark suit, a grey haired man with a mustache is seated at a roll-top desk, holding a paper. Other papers and envelopes are on the desk. A telephone, books, a clock and an electric desk lamp are on the top of the desk. Also on top of the…

Holding a small bottle in one hand, a man is pouring liquid from the bottle into a large glass container. On a workbench in front of the man are many small glass bottles. Behind the man may be seen shelves partially covered with cloth curtains. A…

Mr. Hayes is sitting at his cluttered roll-top desk reading a letter. Hanging on the wall next to his desk is a calendar for May, 1912 with an advertisement for his business “Jas A. Hayes Insurance and Real Estate, Fire, Life, Accident, Health,…

Attorney John Deery is seated at his roll-top desk, writing on a pad of paper. A June, 1912 calendar hangs above the desk; law books have been placed on the top of the desk. The number “319” has been written on the emulsion side of the negative and…

A woman stands at a fabric-cutting worktable at left and 3 other women are sitting at sewing machines at right. John Kapp, the company president, is standing in a doorway at left and is looking at the camera. The number “68” has been written on the…

One of the itinerant photographers poses with John Kapp, the president of the Dubuque Mattress Factory at 63-77 West Main Street. Three other workers pose behind them, on the left and right. The number “90” has been written on the emulsion side of…