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[Interior view of a Peoples Drug Store, Washington, D.C.] – Historic Photograph Print

[Interior view of a Peoples Drug Store, Washington, D.C.], [ca. 1922] — historic photograph
[Interior view of a Peoples Drug Store, Washington, D.C.], [ca. 1922]. 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 Peoples Drug Store interior, photographed in Washington around 1922, shows one of the neighborhood pharmacies that lined the city's commercial streets. In those years a drugstore was often a social stop as much as a place for prescriptions, with a soda fountain and sundries counter drawing shoppers in from the sidewalk. The National Photo Company, which documented Washington from about 1907 into the early 1930s, recorded such ordinary businesses alongside monuments and government buildings. Views like this one preserve fixtures, lighting and merchandising that later renovations would erase.

Created / published[ca. 1922]
Medium1 photographic print.
GenrePhotographic prints 1920-1930.
NotesNational Photo Company Collection.
SubjectsPeoples Drug Stores, inc.--Buildings--Washington (D.C.)--1920-1930. Drugstores--Washington (D.C.)--1920-1930. Interiors--Washington (D.C.)--1920-1930.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,186 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-130383

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