2nd and Main Looking North

ID: 2318 ~ Source: Norbert Brown Collection, Knox County Public Library ~ Creator: The Rotograph Co. ~ Date: 1907
This file appears in: Gimbel Corner
2nd and Main Looking North

This image shows the corner of Second and Main looking North. Gimbel's store may be seen on the right.

This file appears in: Gimbel Corner

By Knox County Public Library
You are now standing on the corner where one of the world’s largest department store empires began. Adam Gimbel was a Jewish man who came to the US from Bavaria (in what is now Germany) and arrived in New Orleans around 1830. At the age of…