Photos: Urbach's celebrates 100 years in Seward

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Dorothy Urbach, right, and daughter Susie Urbach represent the second and third generations to work the family store in Seward. Some fourth-generation youngsters have also spent time behind the counters.

If she isn't fishing or traveling, 88-year-old Dorothy Urbach arrives every morning at her family's historic clothing store in downtown Seward and, after unlocking the front door, steps onto the same wooden floor where customers first stood 100 summers ago.

Inside Urbach's, goods from times gone by are perched on shelves for display only: a feather duster, black boots made of antelope leather, century-old snowshoes, a wooden hat stretcher, typewriters, an adding machine and a milk can from the Jesse Lee Home, where a seventh-grader named Benny Benson was living as an orphan when he won the contest to design Alaska's flag.

Read more: At 100, Urbach's clothing store in Seward has lived through it all