A group of men and boys stand outside a DeKalb County grocery store and shoe repair shop in this 1880 photo by O. W. Chase. The owner stands at center, and the man on the right has a pet possum on his walking stick.
Fort Payne Produce Stand, ca. 1880s
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Courtesy of the Alabama Department of Archives and History
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