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Bicycles Visit Lengeman's Store in India Basin

Unfinished History

A series of photos by George F. Lengeman documents his wooden store on what is now Fairfax Avenue (then 6th Avenue South) in India Basin near Hunters Point when it was adjacent to tanneries and the slaughterhouses of Butchertown.

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The Lengeman store with bicycles and the store's delivery wagon out front, c. 1900.

Photo: George F. Lengeman

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Boys and bicycles posed in the middle of a dirt street, probably today's Fairfax Avenue, about 1904.

Photo: George F. Lengeman

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Horse-drawn bakery wagon, c. 1904.

Photo: George F. Lengeman

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Galvez Street and the Butchertown neighborhood in foreground. Tanneries, slaughterhouses, and rendering factories are along the Islais Creek waterfront, c. 1900.

Photo: George F. Lengeman

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