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Main Street
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View down Main Street. On the left a bank is on the corner with a Masonic symbol in the upstairs window. A general store is down the block on the left. Horses and buggies are hitched to the posts near the sidewalk. Street lights are suspended over the street. Pedestrians are in the street and along the sidewalk.
Gillett, Sherwin
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Main Street Looking West
1912
View down Main Street, with City Hall in the background. On the left is a general merchandise store, a bank and other businesses. In the foreground on the right is a printing office, barber, ice cr...
Main Street Looking South
View down middle of an unpaved road. There are shops and homes on the street down the hill, and pedestrians on the sidewalk. On the left, there is a pile of rubble near an empty lot.
Sparta Main Street
1911
View of Main Street from its intersection with Oak Street. On the left corner is a bank and two drug stores. On the right are two restaurants and a shoe shop. Most of the storefronts and windows ha...
Main Street
1925
View down Main Street looking south. At the bottom of the street is a bridge, and beyond is a hill with houses and trees. There are pedestrians along the sidewalk of Main Street, which is lined wit...
Main Street
View down commercial Main Street looking south. A buggy travels down the dirt road.
Main Street
1911
View down center of Main Street. On the left is the Hotel Lewis, with a columned porch and awnings above the second-story windows. Further down the street is a cemetery, a bowling alley and a resta...
