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Co-operative Bookstore, Howard University, Washington, D.C., [interior] – Vintage Wall Art

Co-operative Bookstore, Howard University, Washington, D.C., [interior], 1927 — historic photograph
Co-operative Bookstore, Howard University, Washington, D.C., [interior], 1927. 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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The interior of the Co-operative Bookstore at Howard University is the subject here, a rare glimpse of a campus retail space from the late 1920s. Howard, the historically Black university founded in 1867 in Washington, D.C., ran this store as a student-oriented cooperative, a model that let students share in the business of buying their textbooks and supplies. The photograph was made by the Scurlock Studio, the Washington firm that documented Black life and institutions in the city for decades. Its shelves and fixtures offer a sense of how an academic bookshop looked in the period.

Created / published1927
Medium1 photographic print.
GenrePhotographic prints 1920-1930.
NotesPhotograph by Scurlock Studio, Wash., D.C.
SubjectsHoward University--Buildings--Washington (D.C.)--1920-1930. Bookstores--Washington (D.C.)--1920-1930. Cooperatives--Washington (D.C.)--1920-1930.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,154 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-163001

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