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Photographer A. A. GLEASON

City street with unidentified factory, 1950 (Hanover, Ontario)

Date1940s
MediumPHOTOGRAPHY
DimensionsOverall: 25.5 x 20.3 cm
Object number2004.020.187
Label TextHanover 1940s East View E. E. Graff’s Dry Goods store (middle) stands on the northeast corner of 10th Street and 10th Avenue. The three-bay block of buildings that includes Graff’s still stands today, as do the buildings west of it (bottom, left). The Knechtel furniture factory (middle), which operated from 1875 to 1983, occupied the four-storey building to the east. Today, it’s the site of Hanover Heritage Square.
NamePHOTOGRAPH