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Attractive photo of 15th St. Moline Illinois. No cars, two horse-drawn wagons, one is delivery wagon with signage on it.
Lots of nice signage: PEOPLE’S BANK, CIGARS NEWS Oakley, PHOTO SUPPLIES, ----CAFÉ, NO MORE NO LESS, DAVLIGHT, THE MIRROR….
Written on negative 15 st. Moline ILL.
Undated. Addressed on back to Belgium.
Vertical crack, some smaller cracks at top, creases in corners. Heavy smudging on back.
Moline was a successful, if somewhat boring, turn-of-the-20th-century city. It was clean, well maintained, and prosperous, and unlike Rock Island and Davenport, contained no slums, congestion, or red-light districts. Despite the occasional conflicts between native-born and immigrant leaders, the Puritanical, serious temperament of the city had not changed in the half-century since Moline's founding. The city became known as "Proud Moline" to its neighbors, a somewhat derisive nickname that touched on Moliners' sometimes haughty, holier-than-thou attitude. The electric streetcar system expanded as the city did, and by 1915 there were over 45 miles (of paved city streets and 75 miles of sidewalks.
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