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Black and white photograph of the 100 block of East Front Street looking West, about 1900. The Hotel Whiting is visible on the south side of the street and Rowland Douglass Shoe Store, the Hannah Lay Mercantile Company and the Traverse City State…

Black and white photograph of Montgomery Wards, Harris Sample Furniture and the Hannah Lay Hardware stores, all in the original Hannah Lay building on Front Street, c. 1940.

Color postcard of East Front Street about 1900.

Black and white photograph of a display in the show window of the Hannah Lay Mercantile building, 1907.

Emanuel ("Em") Wilhelm in fishing gear. Emanuel was the manager of the dry goods department at the Hannah Lay store and lived at 430 S. Union Street.

Black and white negative, image is of the Hannah & Lay Mercantile Building at the northeast corner of Front and Union Streets. Image was captured while the photographer was standing in the middle of the intersection of those two streets. In the…

Photo of man tight rope walking across downtown street setting out from roof of Hannah Lay Mercantile Co. at 101-117 E. Front St. , T.C.