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Pennsylvania. Parkersburg. Harry Smith's drug store (interior) – Historic Reproduction

Pennsylvania. Parkersburg. Harry Smith's drug store (interior), [no date recorded on caption card] — historic photograph
Pennsylvania. Parkersburg. Harry Smith's drug store (interior), [no date recorded on caption card]. Historic photograph from the Historic Print Archive 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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This rare historic photograph captures Pennsylvania. Parkersburg. Harry Smith's drug store (interior) in remarkable detail. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.

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Pennsylvania. Parkersburg. Harry Smith's drug store (interior)

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Harry Smith's drug store in Parkesburg, a borough in Chester County, Pennsylvania, is the subject here, shown from inside the shop. The caption card gives no date, and the title spells the town as Parkersburg while the subject tracings read Parkesburg, so the record is not fully verified. The view is typical of small-town drugstores of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, when a prescription counter often sat beside shelves of patent medicines, toiletries and sundries, and sometimes a soda fountain. Interiors like this one preserve the fixtures and merchandising of that trade.

Created / published[no date recorded on caption card]
Medium1 photographic print.
SubjectsNo. 1579. Wittemann Collection. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: BI--Business; Pennsylvania--Parkesburg; Drugstores...; Geogr.; Shelf.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,158 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-145479

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