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400 block of Main Street
400 block of Main Street
Title400 block of Main Street
DescriptionA view of the 400 block of Main Street, between Preston Avenue and Prairie Avenue. Numerous businesses can be identified by their storefront signage. The wheels of an automobile parked at the curb can barely be seen behind a horse-drawn wagon loaded and waiting.
Dateca. 1900
Genreblack-and-white photographs
copy prints
Subject.Topical (AAT)central business districts
main streets
storefronts
horse-drawn vehicles
advertising
Subject (Geographic)Houston, Texas
Original CollectionGeorge Fuermann "Texas and Houston" Collection, 1836-2001 http://archon.lib.uh.edu/index.php?p=collections/controlcard&id=356
RepositorySpecial Collections, University of Houston Libraries
Original Item LocationID 1970-001, Box 10, Folder 131
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File namefur235-cc.tif
Digital Collectionreformatted digital