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Sam and Ida Bloom in Downing's Hardware Store, between 1930 and 1935

 Item
Identifier: B409.02.00003

Abstract

Digitized photograph of Sam and Ida Bloom standing in Downing's Hardware Store. In the store are various hardware items, including paints, samdpaper, spark plugs, Texico roofing materials, watering cans, rifles, silver tea pots, and perhaps lawnmowers. Interior of the Downing's Hardware store on Downing street. Standing in the store left to right: Ida Bloom, Pizer Bloom, unidentified employee, Sam Bloom, and Fern Bloom. Pictured are paints and Celsior paint samples on shelves at the right of the image, a ladder, roll of packaging paper, different sizes of wire, scale with a scoop, watering can, and shelves filled with unkown same sized materials. Sam Bloom was born in Denver, Colorado in 1911. His parents were Pizer and Ida Strait Bloom. Pizer was born in Poland in 1885 and Ida was born in New York City in 1894. The couple opened Downing Coal and Feed store in Denver, Colorado which became Downing's Hardware Store.

Dates

  • between 1930 and 1935

Extent

3 Megabytes

Scope and Contents

From the Collection:

The collection contains a memoir by Barbara A. Bloom and five digitized photographs of the Bloom family and Downing's stores. The memoir contains transcipts of oral history interviews.

Creator

Repository Details

Part of the Special Collections and Archives Repository

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