View of small brick building with faded sign for a harness shop. Billboards are posted on the outside wall for "Cremo 5 cent cigar" and "New York Woolen Company Merchant Tailors, 146 S. Main St." The building at left has a faded sign that says "restaurant." Title devised by cataloger based on handwritten caption, "Wilmington. Old harness shop of Van Valkenburg," under the same photograph in "Hazard-Dyson photograph album" (call no. 094/171), UCLA Special Collections. Date range approximated by cataloger based on the year that film negatives came into use and the latest known dates indicated for other Hazard images in the Huntington's collection. H. Van Valkenburg, harness and saddle maker, Wilmington, California (Source: Disturnell's Business Directory and Gazetteer of the West Coast of North America, W. C. Disturnell, Publisher, San Francisco, California, 1882).
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