Vaupel Clothier Storefront – Freeport, Illinois, USA

Photo postcard of the Vaupel Clothier storefront on Galena Street in Freeport, Illinois during the 44th Grand Army of the Republic (Civil War Veterans) Encampment. Note the hanging banner shaped like a pair of trousers in the middle of the street labelled “Clothing – John Vaupel”. John Vaupel was the brother of Christina Vaupel Blumenstiel and great-uncle of Dorothy Blumenstiel Jarrell.

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