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…
The photographer’s notes indicate that this scene is the Maquoketa River, and was taken near Durango, Iowa. An iron bridge is visible, spanning the slow-moving stream.
Four, closely spaced, rectangular glass greenhouses are visible in this image. A white, two story frame house may be seen behind one of the greenhouses. The number 1314-a is written on a label that has been stuck to the lower left corner of the…
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…
A mother, father and two boys are standing together near a bench and trees in this snow scene. The photographer’s notes indicate that the image was taken in Jackson Park, Dubuque, Iowa on March 22, 1916. The number 1331 is written on a label that has…
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…
A float whose base is decorated in dark colored fabric dominates this image. Two individuals appear to be standing on the float. They are standing between two large, white objects. A man, lying down and dressed in an Arabic costume, is also partially…
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,…