1910@
Citation: 151.831.4 (Full image size: 222Kb)
Threshing time on the Frank and Belle Allen farm, located on what was later north Duff Avenue. The time of the photograph is around 1910.
Citation: 151.831.6 (Full image size: 224Kb)
The Frank Allen farm house on what would later be north Duff Avenue in about 1910. Seated Frank Allen in the cap and Hector Goble in the derby hat. Hector Goble owned a harness shop on Main Street in downtown Ames. The women standing on the porch are Belle Selby Allen, wife of Frank, and in the dark dress, Mrs. Goble [first name unknown]. The Gobles and the Allens were neighbors.
Citation: 151.832.5 (Full image size: 236Kb)
Belle Selby Allen, wife of Frank Allen, photographed at their home on what would become north Duff Avenue. Frank and Belle were married in 1895. Belle Selby had been the first woman clerk on Main Street when she was hired by Lou Tilden to clerk in the Tilden Store in about 1894. She and Frank operated the Grand View Dairy at their farm home located on what is now the residential area east of Duff and south of Twentieth Street.
ALLEN, FRANK E.
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