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[Employees of People's Drug Store, Washington, D.C., standing in front of store] – Vintage Print

[Employees of People's Drug Store, Washington, D.C., standing in front of store], [between 1909 and 1932] — historic photograph
[Employees of People's Drug Store, Washington, D.C., standing in front of store], [between 1909 and 1932]. Historic photograph from the Washington DC collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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A window into the past: [Employees of People's Drug Store, Washington, D.C., standing in front of store], preserved in this historic photograph. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.

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The people in this group portrait stand shoulder to shoulder in front of a People's Drug Store in Washington, D.C., a chain whose name in the subject heading ties the picture to a specific business rather than to the street in general. The photograph was made by the National Photo Company, a commercial studio that documented the capital's streets, buildings and people in the first decades of the twentieth century, and it dates from sometime between 1909 and 1932. Drugstores of this era were neighborhood fixtures where clerks filled prescriptions, sold sundries and soda, and often knew their customers by name. A staff photograph like this one preserves how such a shop presented itself to the public and who ran it day to day.

Created / published[between 1909 and 1932]
Medium1 photographic print.
GenreGroup portraits 1900-1940.Portrait photographs 1900-1940.Photographic prints 1900-1940.
NotesNo. 5858. National Photo Co., Washington, D.C. Forms part of: National Photo Company Collection (Library of Congress).
SubjectsPeoples Drug Stores, inc.--People--Washington (D.C.)--1900-1940. Employees--Washington (D.C.)--1900-1940. Drugstores--Washington (D.C.)--1900-1940.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan821 × 633 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-205744

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