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| Date: | 09 1910 |
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| Description: | Exhibit of the Champion Chemical Company promoting their embalming fluids. Also presented in the exhibit are caskets and clothing to dress the dead. |
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| Description: | Herold Newspaper building and surrounding commercial area at the southwest corner of Broadway and Mason Street. Pedestrians are crossing the street, and ho... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Men standing near an International truck used by the Utley & Co., a furniture and undertaking company. The Utley & Co. storefront is in the background. The... |
| Date: | 1923 |
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| Description: | View down retail street. The shops include a clothing store, Barig and Son Undertakers, a hotel, and drugstore. Cars are parked in the middle of the street... |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | View down a rainy commercial street. There is a soda/ice cream shop, garage/gas station, and undertaker. A car is parked on the side of the road. There is ... |
| Date: | 1929 |
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| Description: | View down a commercial street, with an automobile coming down the street. There is a soda/ice cream shop which offers tobacco, cigars, and candy. The City ... |
| Date: | 02 15 1978 |
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| Description: | "Lester Beck, Undertaker. In 1913, Lester's father, Fred Beck, and Robert Kietzer formed a partnership as undertakers and, in 1917, Fred went on his own in... |
| Date: | 1928 |
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| Description: | View down street. On the left is the McCann. Undertaking building and grocery store. Two children play on a wagon on the sidewalk. Five people are gathered... |
| Date: | 1909 |
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| Description: | Photographic postcard view from street in the central business district. The street is lined with businesses, and a few have awnings over their storefronts... |
| Date: | 1911 |
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| Description: | Photographic postcard view of a street scene. Groups of people are gathered along the sidewalks near storefronts. A building on the left has a painted sign... |
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| Description: | Undertaker's funeral parlor and other buildings along a dirt street with a sidewalk. An oblong sign attached to the balcony hangs over the sidewalk and rea... |
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| Description: | View from across unpaved street of four men with horse-drawn hearses lined up in front of an undertaking building. The other storefronts are a stable on th... |
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| Description: | View across Main Street toward businesses on the right, including a harness repair shop, undertaker, and a bank. A horse and wagon is in the street. Captio... |
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| Description: | Two men are standing indoors, one man on the left and the other on the right. In the center is a vintage hand crank phonograph. A sign hanging on the back ... |
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