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Name and location of repository
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Item
Title
C8771-2
Date(s)
- 1891 (Creation)
Extent
Name of creator
(1919-1980)
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Scope and content
ca. 1891. In 1891 the LaMotte & Watkins Grocery Store, called simply "My Store" on the sign above their door, was located at 2420 Pacific Avenue. The store was owned by John W. Watkins and Mrs. Annie E. LaMotte, the widow of Oscar LaMotte. The four men standing in front of the store are (l to r) Mr. Lenard, a farmer; Charles S. Ecklund, a clerk at the store who later went to Alaska to seek his fortune; Herschel Rawlings, who was the store's bookkeeper and later became a Tacoma dentist; and Robert K. Taylor, a sales clerk who later moved to Seattle. (TNT 8/17/1922 p.4) Copy negative from 1939.
Grocery stores--Tacoma--1890-1900; My Store (Tacoma); Ecklund, Charles S.; Rawlings, Herschel; Taylor, Robert K.