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- Details, Details
- What's that building to the left of the tower?
- Coal Barges
- Bromo-Seltzer
- Inner harbor
- The Basin
- What a headache!
- Giant stepladder?
- Baldwin 62303
- Baldwin VO-1000
- Cold
- No expense spared
- Tough Guys
- Lost in Toyland
- And without gloves
- If I were a blindfolded time traveler
- Smoke Consumer Also Cooks
- Oh that stove!
- Possibly still there?
- What?!?
- $100 Reward
- Freeze Frame
- Texas Flyer wanted
- Just a Year Too Soon
- WWII -- Replacing men with women at the railroad crossing.
- Yes, Icing
- You kids drive me nuts!
- NOT An Easy Job
- I wonder
- Just add window boxes
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Archer Mercantile: 1937
![November 1937. "Store building at Alger [i.e. Archer], Sheridan County, Montana." Medium format negative by Russell Lee for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.](https://www.shorpy.com/files/images/SHORPY-8b20114a.preview.jpg "Archer Mercantile: 1937")
November 1937. "Store building at Alger [i.e. Archer], Sheridan County, Montana." Medium format negative by Russell Lee for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.
Out of business
Not every small town that gets shut down can blame it on Walmart.
Gasoline Pumps
The early gasoline pump on the right being looked down upon by the modern version is classic.
Gone but also forgotten
Neither Alger nor Archer appears on Google Maps, nor on the list of towns and ghost towns for Sheridan County: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sheridan_County,_Montana#Communities
[Au contraire. -Dave]
Whitmarsh
Call me crazy, but I read nightmarish. And isn’t that Prince Albert in a can behind the door insulated with cardboard?
Modest, isolated lives
Many of the photos to be found on this website show a rural America of modest means in isolated environments. I suspect a Sear catalog was their only contact with the "outside" world.
Perhaps WWII was as much a cultural change as an economic or political force. And this was life not long before many of us were born.
Just wondering.
I believe that the metropolis of Archer Montana
Is fresh out of mercantile. And maybe a while before another shipment arrives.
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