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Business Section
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View across an unpaved road of the business district. There is a man standing in front of a general store, with a hand water pump and bucket near the porch, and a dog sitting by a screen door in the side yard on the left. In the background is a man standing in front of a hardware store/post office with a gas pump.
1925
Gillett, Sherwin
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