Photograph- Four unidentified men standing in front of Charles E. and Harvey C. Huber's grocery store at 224 North Queen Street. They later became cigar manufacturers.
Photograph- Four unidentified men standing in front of Charles E. and Harvey C. Huber's grocery store at 224 North Queen Street. They later became cigar manufacturers.
Description
Four unidentified men standing in front of Charles E. and Harvey C. Huber's grocery store at 224 North Queen Street. They later became cigar manufacturers.
This is the southeast corner of North Prince and James Streets, showing corner grocery store owned by family pictured in front. Bob Epler, who submitted this picture, lived in house on right with striped awning.
H. C. Slaymaker residence at the corner of North Duke and East Chestnut Streets. Later the site of Bowman Technical School. Photo taken either in fall 1898 or Spring 1899 by Henry Cowell. On step: H. C. Slaymaker and Miss Susan E. Slaymaker. In window: Miss Mary Cowell.
The Bowman Technical School was founded by watchmaker Ezra F. Bowman in 1887 to teach the trade of watchmaking and engraving. During World War I, the Bowman Technical School trained soldiers to repair delicate aviation and naval instruments.
Construction of Post Office building - now City Hall building. Given to Mayor Kendig Bare by John Ward Willson Loose. Received May 8, 1954. Building erected in 1891.
Provenance
Gift of David Towle. See MG-747 Papers of Mayor Kendig Bare.
