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The courthouse, it maybe darker than the rest but it takes up most of the left side of the picture. I guessing the painter wanted make sure that you can how large and important that building is. The next thing is the business of the crowd in the streets, riding the trollies pulled by horses. People buying food at the market and judging by the clothing there is high, medium and low working classes. Women and men dressed in nicer clothing, a long with woman and men dressed in very fancy clothing at all. The drug store is another thing that stand out and I like to think it was 1892 version of a walmart carrying anything and everything. The store could order anything and everything for you just as long as you had the money for it. Seeing the Telephone poles in the city is very odd to me because in current times all electricity is run under ground to the buildings only out in the country is their light poles now. So I think that one element captures how old and unique this painting is. You can see the red bricks in the road which is not normal in any city now. I just love everything about this painting how much detail is in it but yet there really isn't much when you look closely at