English: This is 1 of 2 pictures in a set of pictures taken in 1910. The first picture in the set is of Lund Store with the storeowner's home in the background. The second picture in the set is a close-up of the house. The pictures were in the estate of Pearl (Hill) Bacon (1890-1981). Pearl, age 18, married Frank Bacon (1878-1947), age 31, in March 1909. The 1910 Federal Census recorded the couple rented their house and Frank was a general store merchant, working for himself. Frank rented the store and house in 1908, and he and Pearl ran the store until 1910. Pearl was familiar with running a general store; her father, Pete Hill (1864-1934), owned J.P. Hill Store in Achilles, Rawlins County from 1900-1934.
On the back of the first picture Pearl (Hill) Bacon wrote, "The old Lund Store, April 6, 1910." Pearl identified the men in the picture as Frank Bacon standing by the door, Fred Nelson, Albert Peterson, and Adam Chaptman. Pearl wrote on the companion picture of their residence, "Pearl, Frank lived Lund 1908 1909." (and 1910).
Lund, Summit Township, population 24, was an unincorporated hamlet 12 miles south of Oberlin and is now a ghost town. Lund's post office was established in 1892, likely in this store, and discontinued in 1907 when it was moved to Dresden, 10 miles southeast of Lund.
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Family/historical picture from the estate of Pearl (Hill) Bacon (1890-1981).
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Photographer unknown, but may have been Pearl (Hill) Bacon's mother, Effie (Matthewson) Hill (1869-1951), an early photographer.
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"Lund Store", Decatur County, Kansas, 1910, Proprietor Frank Bacon--1908-10