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Street Scene
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View down a street featuring stores and small businesses with signs written in Spanish. On the left corner, Eduardo Cruz' department store can be seen, built in 1913 and established in 1894. A drugstore stands across the street. A botica, pharmacy and drugstore is on the right.
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Street Scene
after 1918
View of storefronts lining a town street. A brick building housing City Drug Store and Tom W. Crutcher & Co. General Insurance bears a date of 1918.
Business Section
View of the business section of town. The street is lined with businesses including the National Bank of Commerce, a hotel, and a clothing store. Text on the photograph reads, "The Miller Drug Stor...
City Street
View down a city street, lined with storefronts. Piggly Wiggly is visible at right; it was founded in 1916.
Storefronts on Main Street
Automobiles line unpaved Main Street which features the City National Bank, L.B. Wright Hardware Company, and Carrol Bros. Auto Supply Company.
Morley Avenue
View down Morley Avenue, lined with stores and small businesses. A stone building at right is labeled 'Escalada Bros.'; it was established in 1892 by the Spaniard Manuel Escalada.
Storefronts
VIew down a city block featuring storefronts and Planters State Bank on the corner. The colonnaded building housed the bank from 1917 to 1924.
