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This photo shows a general store in Boonsboro, Maryland, around the mid-1880's. Boonsboro has been described as "a one-street town", which may have been true; but if so it was certainly a fashionable street indeed. In addition to the prominent display announcing the availability of the very exclusive Horsey Rye, notice that all the gentlemen (including the boy) are wearing fine new hats.
As an example of how some things remain the same over the decades, this photo might even have been issued as an advertisement for the hat manufacturer -- the implication being that all these obviously successful men chose only the finest brand of whiskey... and of hats (available in all sizes, of course).
 

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