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[Va. - Cumberland - Cumberland Drug Store and J.R. Godsey & Co. store from across main street] – Historic Photograph Print

[Va. - Cumberland - Cumberland Drug Store and J.R. Godsey & Co. store from across main street] — historic photograph
[Va. - Cumberland - Cumberland Drug Store and J.R. Godsey & Co. store from across main street]. 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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Two storefronts face each other across the main street of Cumberland, Virginia, in this view taken from across the road: the Cumberland Drug Store and the J.R. Godsey & Co. store. The photograph dates to about 1915, when small county seats like Cumberland were the commercial centers for surrounding farm families, who came to town to buy supplies, fill prescriptions, and do business. Drug stores of that era often combined pharmacy shelves with soda fountains and sundries, while general merchandise firms sold dry goods, hardware, and groceries. The picture offers a useful record of how a rural Virginia main street was built and used in the early twentieth century.

Medium1 photographic print.
Notesc1915.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,198 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-121830

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