Isaac V. Mossman Store, 1870 (14/44)

Isaac V. Mossman Store, 1870

Photograph of a storefront identified as the Isaac V. Mossman store, Olympia, W.T. The store was located at Third and Main (now State and Capitol). It is a two-story clapboard building. At the second story are four sashed and shuttered windows. A fixed awning is over the board sidewalk.

There are three storefronts, each with a doorway and large glass windows. The storefront to the right has a sign in front reading Employment Office. The store to the far left has two barberpoles affixed to each side of the entryway, and a barberpole erected on the sidewalk at the front edge of the board sidewalk. Also on the sidewalk is a large rectangular piece of furniture, as well as two chairs and a table. Other furniture is visible behind the glass window of the middle business, the furniture store. A group of nine men and two boys stand or sit on the sidewalk in front of the building. One man is sitting in a rocking chair. All have hats. One of the boys is leaning on a hitching post.

The street is unpaved. (Isaac V. Mossman was also a pony express rider and territorial librarian)

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