Thursday, December 19, 2013

Ainsworth Business District

From Mildred Lindborg's photo album.

51 Ainsworth Road looking east
(Click on image to enlarge)
Image courtesy of N.B.


Mildred did not caption this picture. The album's owner thinks the girl, at left, might be Mabel Larson. The boy is Franklin Lindborg.

For the rest, this gives us another view of the little cluster of businesses that constituted the village of Ainsworth (except you can't see the railroad depot). At left, Gust Lindborg's blacksmith shop; behind it, the saloon building; between the girl and boy, a glimpse of the Raschka/Shearer warehouse; at the right edge of the picture, the Ainsworth general store.

That contraption in the road in front of the general store is a horse and buggy, I believe, not an automobile. We don't have a date for this, but the girl's fashions suggest the WWI era more than the 1920s, I think.

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