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Photo postcard of seven kids sitting on top of a load of coal in a railway car. Parked on rail siding in front of. building with sign ‘DANVILLE LUMB--- Incorporated’
Railway car labeled C.N. & T.P. (Cincinnati and New Orleans, Texas Pacific) and QUEEN CRESCENT ROUTE.
Written on negative “Buy your coal from Danville Lumber & Mfg. Co, Danville, KY”
Printed on negative ‘PUB. BY T.P. CURRY & SON’ (Danville). In upper left corner ‘SEVEN PEACHES’ ..perhaps a reference to the 7 children?
AZO photographic paper dates it to 1904-1918
Danville is a home rule-class city and the county seat of Boyle County, Kentucky, United States. The population was 5,420 in 1910. Danville is the principal city of the Danville Micropolitan Statistical Area, which includes all of the Boyle and Lincoln counties.
Danville Lumber and Manufacturing Company on Lynn Street
….By 1904, the name had changed to the Danville Lumber and Manufacturing Company
The creeks on the property were used as a source of water for the boiler system; and were later used to provide water to the company's sprinkler system. The tracks of the Southern Railroad entered the property, allowing the firm to provide receiving and shipping operations.
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