c. 1910 USA RPPC photo postcard Main Street Atkinson Nebraska

$45.00 CAD

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Attractive postcard photo of dirt East Main Street of small-town Atkinson Nebraska.  Parked Ford, men standing around, signs:

·         ‘ATKINSON NATIONAL BANK’

·         ‘McNICHOL’S MARKET’

·          ‘GENT-R MARKET’

·         ‘WILSON DRUG CO.

·         ‘HARDWARE’

·          ‘PATTON’S SUN-PROOF PAINTS Paints for all Purposes  Sold at the sign of the Sun’.

One building with roof plaque ‘1909 D.E. COLLINS’

Written on image ‘East Main St. Looking North Atkinson’. Signed by photographer ‘Wilson’, Likely this was related to the owner of the pharmacy.

VELOX photographic paper dates it from 1907-1917

 

Atkinson is a city in Holt County, Nebraska, United States. The population was 810  in 1910. Atkinson was platted in 1880, when the railroad was extended to that point.

The Atkinson National Bank of Atkinson, Nebraska, was a small but historically notable institution that operated in the early 20th century. Located in Holt County, Nebraska, It opened in 1905 and ceased printing currency in 1913—a brief 9-year span.


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