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The tailor is standing behind a cutting table on which are pattern pieces, rulers and yardsticks. A lamp hangs over the table. On the other side of the narrow room are cloth patterns and partially sewn dresses hanging on a clothes rack. Two women are…

The tailor is seated at his desk, holding a piece of paper. Several drawings of women’s fashions are on top of another small desk, in front of the tailor. Additional drawings may be seen on the shelves of the desk. On the wall behind the tailor are…

Smoking a cigar and holding another in his hands, a man is standing near a glass display case in a tobacco and cigar store. A male clerk is standing on the other side of the display case. Boxes of cigars, pipes, and other tobacco products are visible…

With his back to the camera, a man may be seen working at a long table in this view of a wholesale grocery storeroom. Stacks of wooden boxes, some labeled “Bull Durham,” are visible along the left wall, as are two handcarts, seen in the right…

Three women, two men and one dog are looking at the camera in this interior view of a wig makers shop. The women are seated at desks. A woman in the left foreground of the photograph is holding a long length of dark colored hair. Additional piles of…

This photograph is of two men sitting at desks in an office. The walls and ceiling are covered with narrow, horizontal and vertical paneling that is finished in a dark stain. Many photographs and calendars are hung on the walls. June 1912 calendars…

This image is similar to LO 262. Several men are standing near the center of a street car terminal which has been erected near the entrance to Union Park in Dubuque, Iowa. Paved walkways are visible leading from the terminal into the heavily forested…

Children and their parents may be seen playing on swings and teeter totters on a forested playground at the base of a steep hill in Union Park in Dubuque, Iowa. The number 1304-2 is written on a label that has been stuck to the lower left corner of…

An unknown woman stands on a rock along the side of a waterway. Her left hand is on her hip and her right hand is holding a fishing pole where the line is down in the water. She is wearing a hat with what appears to be vines and leaves encircling the…

The photographer’s notes indicate that the structure in this image is a “Woodpile like African House.” A low, circular mound of vertically-stacked logs of similar sizes is visible. The mound of wood appears to have been built on bare ground on a…