View looking south on Clinton Street, near corner of Iowa Avenue. Sign on telephone pole reads "Barnum & Bailey Show". Signs shaped like a pointing hand, and a hat, read "Coast & Easley American Clothiers".
Diary kept by Louis Parsons of Burlington, Iowa. Parsons grew up in Burlington during the 1870s and 1880s. His father, Albion, owned a general store. while his mother, Mary, raised Louis and older sister Ella. When Louis was 13, his father…