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J.X. Smith’s Restaurant

Black and white photograph of an unpaved town street flanked by a variety of wooden and brick buildings. At at centre-left is a two story clapboard sided flat roofed building with a large windowed shop front over which is a canvas sign with the lettering ‘J.X. Smith’s Restaurant’.

Source: Ladysmith Archives

Date: Circa 1905

J.X. Smith was a black man known widely within the community for his varied business activities which included running a restaurant – (35c for a full course chicken meal), a brothel and a still.