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[Interior view of Peoples Drug Store, Washington, D.C.] – Antique Photo Print

[Interior view of Peoples Drug Store, Washington, D.C.], [ca. 1922] — historic photograph
[Interior view of 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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[Interior view of Peoples Drug Store, Washington, D.C.] comes to life in this historic photograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.

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[Interior view of Peoples Drug Store, Washington, D.C.]

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The focus here is the shelving inside Peoples Drug Store in Washington, D.C., with its rows of bottles, boxes, and packaged goods arranged floor to ceiling behind the counter. Around 1922, drugstores were full-service retail spaces that sold prescriptions, patent medicines, toiletries, and tobacco, often alongside a soda fountain, so the crowded shelves reflect how much a store like this was expected to stock. The picture belongs to the National Photo Company collection, whose photographers recorded the city's streets, storefronts, and businesses during the 1920s and 1930s. Interior views like this one give a sense of ordinary commerce in the capital in the years after World War I.

Created / published[ca. 1922]
Medium1 photographic print.
GenrePhotographic prints 1920-1930.
SubjectsTitle and other information transcribed from caption card and item. LOT subdivision subject: Business Activities. National Photo Company Collection (Library of Congress). Caption card tracings: DC, Wash. -- Stores; Drugstores; Shelf.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,185 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-130384

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