1898 Photograph of Main Street in Edwardsville, Illinois, Showing Utility Poles and Street Fair Tents

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1898 photograph taken from a second story showing tents on Main Street of Edwarsdville, Illinois, during a Free Street Fair. The E. A. Keller Co. tent is visible.

• SIUE Archive

Godfrey Photograph Collection

• culture
• industry
• Edwardsville

October 1898

English

• Photograph

• Black and white photographic print
• jpg

10 x 12 [inches]

• 1890s
  Edwardsville, Illinois

• GodfreyPhoto-P-007