This is a sepia picture of the northwest corner of the square showing several businesses on May 20, 1964. The drug store of Shriner and Johnson is featured very prominently in this photo. Just south of that is T. J. Madden & Co which were clothiers,…
This is a sepia postcard showing the northwest corner of the square and the businesses at that time in Fairfield, Iowa. The time of the postcard is the late 1890's. The second business in could be J. A. Spielman who ran a hardware store at that…
This is a picture of the east side of the square looking north. The picture was taken around 1910 and features several businesses. This picture shows Johnson's Grocery, The Leader which was a notions and novelties store run by E. U. Peasley & Co.,…
This is a picture of the north half of the east side of the square around 1900. This north half of the east side of the square is a later picture and shows that this is still a dry goods store. Note the advertisement of Bonaparte Woolen Goods on the…
This picture postcard is of the north half of the east side of the square in 1876. The business shown is Risk and Hufstedler, a dry goods and notions store that carried all kinds of household items, material, seed, tools, food and clothing. This…
Black and white glossy of the new children's room that was opened up in 1951. In this photo the children are using the newly opened children's reading room. With his back to the camera is Jimmie Knauss, age 6 and his brother, Jerry, is standing at…
This picture, taken in the reading area of the Fairfield Public Library, is of Robert Worley of Pleasant Plain and his daughter, Cynthia, The lady with her back to the photographer is Mrs. Jay Bell.
