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August Haase was up in the loft of the Strattan House at Main and Third, pointing his camera northeast. The postcard is postmarked 1908.
You can read some of the business signs on Main Street. The front window of the Roper building is lettered with "Peoples Meat Market," and below that, "James Roper." The next building north is Fred Francen's* saloon. North of that, Axel Strom's tailor shop.
Out back of the buildings north of the tailor shop, you can see somebody's shirts hanging on a clothesline. And what an assortment of sheds and barns back there!
Moving north and out on the sidewalk — I'd like to know who that guy is and what he's doing with that pole.
And since we've been talking about the Augustus Wood house, there it is in the background. Also the Stocker house. Here, I've marked them:
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Even further beyond, the cemetery, and the Pennsy crossing on Front Street. And the roofs of houses on Michigan Avenue, and the steeple of the Methodist Church.
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*I've also seen it spelled Franzen.
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