Dirty Shoes

ID: 2321 ~ Source: Norbert Brown Collection, Knox County Public Library ~ Date: c. 1910

This file appears in: Gimbel Corner

This photo shows the Gimbel's Building prior to paved streets in Vincennes. Dirty shoes were a real concern back in the day.

This file appears in: Gimbel Corner

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…