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Photo of man tight rope walking across downtown street setting out from roof of Hannah Lay Mercantile Co. at 101-117 E. Front St. , T.C.

Black and white negative, image is of the Hannah & Lay Mercantile Building at the northeast corner of Front and Union Streets. Image was captured while the photographer was standing in the middle of the intersection of those two streets. In the…

Emanuel ("Em") Wilhelm in fishing gear. Emanuel was the manager of the dry goods department at the Hannah Lay store and lived at 430 S. Union Street.

Black and white photograph of a display in the show window of the Hannah Lay Mercantile building, 1907.

Color postcard of East Front Street about 1900.

Black and white photograph of Montgomery Wards, Harris Sample Furniture and the Hannah Lay Hardware stores, all in the original Hannah Lay building on Front Street, c. 1940.

The 100 block of East Front Street looking West about 1900. The Hotel Whiting is visible on the south side of the street and Rowland Douglass Shoe Store, the Hannah Lay Mercantile Company and the Traverse City State Bank on the north side.

Portrait painting of Smith Barnes. He was in charge of the Hannah Lay Mercentile business.

Picture of two ladies in front of the Hanah & Lay store on Front Street. One is sitting in a buggy. The Beadle building is in the background.

M&NE passenger train with engine # 14 in the Traverse City depot. Hannah Lay store in the background.