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A baby sits on a blanket in a grassy field. Behind her, across the road, is a row of low wooden commercial buildings along Main Street.
A baby sits on a blanket in a grassy field. Behind her, across the road, is a row of low wooden commercial buildings along Main Street.

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1923

Main Street, 1923

Eighteen-month-old Doris Shelton Marcum, with Main Street behind her: the lumber yard, blacksmith shop, grocery, Masonic Lodge, Elkin's Cafe, and the Gammill general store.

Archive title
[Haslet baby and street]
Archive description
Photograph of a baby sitting on a blanket in a field across from Main Street in Haslet. Background includes in unidentified order the lumber yard, blacksmith shop, grocery story, Masonic Lodge, Elkin's Cafe, Doc and Ben Gammill General Store. Baby is Doris Shelton Marcum at 18 months old.
Era
Farm town
Credit
Courtesy of Haslet Public Library via The Portal to Texas History, UNT Libraries
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Cite as
[Haslet baby and street], photo, 1923; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth91009/: accessed September 24, 2026), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Haslet Public Library.
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