Chapman Fishing Lure Bazaar
This Chapman Fishing Lure Bazaar photo is truly a gem. A bazaar is a interesting name to use and is one of those words that been usurped and replaced by more familiar references of the American marketplace. If you asked what a Bazaar is technically many would actually draw towards its middle eastern use as a place to house multiple stores. The word itself dates to around 3000 B.C..
This photo is or pre 1879 and would be one of the more early and really the only photo of the early WD Chapman’s Fishing Tackle business. I’m not sure what the design is next to the words Chapman’s Bazaar is but my mind and one eye (As I’m blind due to cancer) wants me to see the early fish outline stamped on some of the early minnow propellers. This photo can be dated to near then as after that is when WD Chapman & his fishing tackle business would experience its first loss due to fire. The second would be in 1890, in which technically WD would not rebuild, however, he was still selling fishing tackle in Rochester, and applying for patents.
When in truth the WD Chapman bazaar is more like a repository for all of William Chapman’s small business’s. As many who have read or studied 19th century lure makers they usually had their hand in anything and everything. Chapman Business’s included a Antique Fishing Lures, Printing Company, a Guide Boat service, a Jewelry Maker, a inventor of rotating display cases to highlight some. Its really of no surprise why he would use a word such a Bazaar to describe what his shop was, next to Mr. Yost’s shoe shop, which is the first building shown.
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