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Brick market building with covered side wings and circular drive – Vintage Photo Print

Brick market building with covered side wings and circular drive — historic image
Brick market building with covered side wings and circular drive. Historic image from the Barns & Farms collection.

(Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

Description

This rare historic image captures Brick market building with covered side wings and circular drive in remarkable detail. Drawn from the Snapshots of the Past archive, it is an authentic piece of documented history.

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Brick market building with covered side wings and circular drive

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A brick market building with covered side wings stands out for its layout, which pairs a solid central hall with open, roofed arms along each side. The circular drive in front of it would have let wagons and teams pull up, unload, and turn around without backing out into the street, a practical touch for a busy market day. Markets like this were common gathering places where farmers sold produce and goods, and the sheltered wings gave customers and sellers some protection from weather while they traded. Buildings of this kind show how rural towns once organized commerce around the farm wagon.

Original scan3,047 × 1,982 px · prints to 10 × 7 in at 300 dpi
Referencetif12660_FarmersmarketShreveportLouisia

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