The grocery store of Charles Boylan (1853-1931) at 1011 Mt. Vernon in Columbus, Ohio. This photos was likely taking in the lat 1890s or early 1900s.

This photograph shows J. Everett Baughman standing in his store, Peninsular Net & Twine Co., at 306 W. Fortune St. in Tampa, Florida.

Here is an old-timey photo of “Lamb’s Bird Store” in Detroit, Michigan. It is one of several pet stores that was connected to a Lamb family with roots in Detroit as early as 1914.

This man is most likely Emil Krone (1858-1943), a watchmaker and jeweler, in front of his store at 1028 Central Ave., Cincinnati, Ohio in 1896.

A beautiful 1939 old times story photo outside the Riverside Fish Co. of East Peoria, Illinois.

My grandfather, Michael John Hanley Jr. (1924-2015), received letters from U.S. Presidents Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, and Ronald Reagan. He also attended a White House reception hosted by President Ford on April 8, 1975.

Chalmer Peters (1898-1980), his wife Gretta, and friends of McDowell County, West Virginia at an unknown store.

Joseph Michael Ridilla (1877-1961) standing behind the Dawson House Bar in Dawson, Pennsylvania (1914).

Here is another addition to the growing collection of Old-Timey Store Photos. Three well dressed gentlemen stand in front of the counter of a general store. It MAY be connected to Henry Clay Stimple (1899-1955) in New Castle, PA.

The image is incredibly crisp and shows a group of what looks to be teenagers from the 1920s.

This early 1900’s antique photo shows a group of men standing outside of “Lemke’s Cafe”. I believe it to be the cafe, tavern, and hotel of proprietor Walter Lemke (1871-1940) of Harsens Island, Michigan.

This image likely shows Herbert John Kleehammer (1890-1990) at his first job in 1913 at a hardware store in Detroit, Michigan.

A cigar chomping butcher, knife in hand, stands behind the counter of his store in Snyder, Oklahoma in January of 1925. Some great old-timey details in this photo!

This photo shows the interior of a vintage shoe store in Minneapolis, Minnesota. It is a 5x7 image on a 8x10 mat. The photographer appears to be an F.B. Brown at 901 4th St. North.

This antique store photo find shows a group of men, likely members of the Apostles Club in Ann Arbor, Michigan probably around 1900. The home stood at 1218 South University.

James J. Harrington (1892-1942) is my 1st cousin 3x removed. He was a life long resident of Butte, Montana. His parents came from the Beara Peninsula in County Cork, Ireland. 

All of these details offer compelling evidence that this photo from 1914 is of the A. L. Lockwood Bakery and Ice Cream Parlor at 1225 Park Ave. in Oneida Square, Utica, New York.

Here is the first in a series of letters written from “Carrie” of Barre, Vermont to Adolph B. Lane of Hanover, New Hampshire in 1900.

This old-timey store photograph shows a tailor in his shop with two boys, possibly his sons. I believe it to be a photo of Joseph S. Pati (1894-1981) and his sons, Samuel, and Mario of New Kensington, Pennsylvania.

This is my 1st cousin 4 times removed, Epaminondas Tsardoulias (born 1863), and his wife Marianthe Mavrogeorgou Tsardoulias (1883-1960). They were married in 1902 on the island of Samos, Greece perhaps in the village of Mytilinioi.

Emil Muenzel (1866-1939), a German immigrant who settled in Donken, Michigan in the Upper Peninsula, was married to my 1st cousin 4x removed, Martha Zenner Muenzel (1868-1960).

This set of old-timey store front photos shows Olive M. Duling Furs, an “Exclusive Furrier” of Santa Ana, California. It operated at this location and one nearby from the 1920s through the early 1960s.

Henriette M. Gundlach (1906-1973) is my 2nd cousin 3x removed. In 1923 she attended Houghton High School in Houghton, Michigan where she was an active well regarded by her peers. Here is just a bit of her story.

This recent eBay acquisition was listed as: “Original 1890s Photo Black Man Posing in Store with Butcher”. An aproned man beneath a “Fish and Oysters Daily” sign is slices a piece of meat. In front of the counter stands a Black man, perhaps a customer, bag in hand.

This photo shows a scene from the 1898 blizzard in Fall River, Massachusetts. The horse drawn “Reindeer” fire truck is pulled into the fire station through the snow on Second Street. Nearby business include Ye Tavern and Quirk Brothers.

A cigar smoking fur trader stands outside a butcher shop in the late 1890s. He is carrying some sort of animal or pelt. Inside a crowd gathers beneath at “Swift’s Pressed Ham” sign that hangs above a counter full of various cuts meat.

Vintage grocery items of all sorts line the full shelves of this early to mid 1930s grocery store. A high resolution scan of this already amazingly clear photograph provides a cornucopia of old-timey advertising and product packaging to research. What items do you see or recognize?

Flo Muir and Mary Miller standing behind the oval glass of the door to Miller & Miller - The Woman’s Store in Logan, Kansas around 1914. Here is Flo’s story.