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The Mode Brothers established a general merchandise business in Jacksonville in 1874, seen in a two-story building on Bay Street. Their store carried an assortment of dry goods, clothing, and notions according to the 1885 edition of Webb’s Historical, Industrial and Biographical Florida. The Mode Brothers Dry Goods House is visible in a historic photo from the Florida Collection of Photographs and Slides. To explore more images from the collection, visit: https://jaxpubliclibrary.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/p16025coll12. For those interested in digitizing old photos, negatives, or slides, the Memory Lab in the Special Collections department at the Main Library offers these services. Learn more at jaxlibrary.org/memoryMODE BROTHERS DRY-GOODS HOUSE.

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Source Location: Jacksonville

Jacksonville, FL

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