0045 – Main Street Monroe c1908 looking east from Blakely St.
This color tinted postcard was printed in Germany and distributed by “Sprouse & Son, Importers and Publishers, Tacoma, Wash.” The photo it was made from, which is very similar to #382, was taken after additions to Stephens Hospital were constructed in 1906 and before the Savoy Hotel was built in 1910. Most signs are too blurry to read, but Stephens Hospital is the first building on the right. A sign for “Doctor Stephens” is on the side of the building beyond the hospital. Beyond it is a sign for “Palace Sweets Bakery” and then another “Bakery” sign. On the left, partway down the first block a sign “Job Printing” marks the Monroe Monitor Building, still occupied by the newspaper. 6/05
Henry A. (Babe) Dennis; 9/76; 5.5x3.5 pp; O; M; good condition
0043 – Men in their Sunday best in four early automobiles on East Main Street c1907
Looking east up East Main Street with four early automobiles filled with men dressed in their Sunday best while the ladies look on from the boardwalk. Moody’s Racket (Variety) Store is on the northwest corner of Main and Ferry Streets with the Washington Hotel across Ferry Street from it. In 1908 Monroe built a two-story brick city hall (now Old City Hall and the home of the Monroe Historical Society Museum) in the vacant lot just east of the Washington Hotel. At the upper extreme right a photographer is standing on a telephone pole.11/05
Henry A. (Babe) Dennis; 9/76; 5.5x3 pp; O; CN3,7,13; M, T
0011 – Main Street Monroe before 1901 fire
Henry A. (Babe) Dennis is the child with the hose by the Barber Pole, while his father, Henry Dennis Sr. is sitting at the left on the boardwalk. Photo was taken before the 1901 fire looking west and slightly north down Main Street. Business signs visible are B.L. Monck Hardware; R.H. Stapleton, Groceries & Hardware on the northwest corner of Main and Lewis Streets; and Monroe Cash Store. 6/05
Henry A. (Babe) Dennis; 9/76; 4x3 m; O; CN3,7; M