Interior view of the August E. Leikauf Meat Company located at 1013 15th (Fifteenth) Street in Denver, Colorado. Shows display cases filled with meat, bacon and pork; cans of "Armour's Simon Pure [leaf] lard" sit on the counter with potted ferns. Animal carcasses, probably whole hams, hang from the walls. Corn stalks decorate the walls. Cans of lard are on shelves and on overhead hooks. A sign on a container with cornstalks reads: "Armour's Korn Fed Beef." A sign on the wall reads: [August] E. Leikauf Meat Company, We Handle [Armour] Meat Products." Posters for Armour's bacon and ham hang on the wall, one reads: "Armour's Star Bacon." A clock sits on a shelf at the end of the store and electric lights with glass shades hang from the ceiling. A door mat reads: "Leikauf."
Date
[between 1913 and 1920?]
Notes
Formerly F30053; Photo-recto (inked in negative) attribution and "1143."; Title supplied.; R7110068695
Description
1 photographic print ; 19 x 25 cm. (7 1/2 x 9 1/2 in.)
Subject
August E. Leikauf Meat Company (Denver, Colo.)--1910-1920.; Denver (Colo.)--1910-1920.; Butchers shops--Colorado--Denver--1910-1920.; Meat--Colorado--Denver--1910-1920.; Merchandise displays--Colorado--Denver--1910-1920.; Showcases--Colorado--Denver--1910-1920.
Source
unknown.
Rights Statement
Restrictions applying to use or reproduction of this image available from the Western History/Genealogy Dept., Denver Public Library.
