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The Hand Trading Company was the largest mercantile store in southwest Georgia in the early twentieth century. Pictured in 1918, the four-story retail emporium featured nearly 100,000 feet of floor space.

Courtesy of Georgia Archives, Vanishing Georgia, # mit022.

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