[Majerus Grocery Store]

[Majerus Grocery Store]

Grocery stores
Grocers
Dubuque (Iowa) -- Pictorial works
William J. Klauer Collection
Glass negatives
Itinerant photographers

Two men, Ed Majerus at left and possibly John O’Rourke at right, stand in the Majerus Grocery Store at 475 Clay Street. These products are visible in the store: a crate full of heads of lettuce or cabbage, Jell-O gelatin, Welch’s Grape Juice, Argo Starch, Old Dutch Cleanser, Fairbanks Gold Dust Washing Powder, Kellogg’s Toasted Corn Flakes, Uneeda Biscuits, Sopade, Washington Crisps, Morton’s Table Salt, Montague’s Samoset Biscuits, Iten’s Animals (crackers or biscuits), loaves of bread, and a pineapple. There is a display for Armour Grape Juice hanging on the back wall. Washboards, laundry baskets and market baskets are displayed on top of the shelving at right and the display on top of the shelving at left includes tin washtubs. The number “106” has been written on the emulsion side of the negative and is visible in the upper right corner of the picture. No number is written in the upper left corner.

Photographer unknown

The Center for Dubuque History, Loras College, 1450 Alta Vista Street, Dubuque, Iowa 52001

This record is part of the William J. Klauer Collection held by The Center for Dubuque History, Loras College, Dubuque, Iowa.

1912-05/06

Contact The Center for Dubuque History at Loras College, 1450 Alta Vista Street, Dubuque, Iowa 52001 or call (563) 588-7100 © 2013 LORAS COLLEGE

William J. Klauer Collection

Digital image captured using a Microtek ScanMaker 8700 with transparent media adapter. TIFF file created from a glass plate negative scanned in 16 - bit grey scale at 1200 ppi.

Still image

KL 071-090

475 Clay Street, Dubuque, Iowa

1 glass negative: b & w

6.5 x 8.5 in.