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[Window display featuring Pond's Extract products in O'Donnell's drugstore, probably in Washington, D.C.] – Historic Print

[Window display featuring Pond's Extract products in O'Donnell's drugstore, probably in Washington, D.C.], [between 1909 and 1932] — historic photograph
[Window display featuring Pond's Extract products in O'Donnell's drugstore, probably in Washington, D.C.], [between 1909 and 1932]. 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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[Window display featuring Pond's Extract products in O'Donnell's drugstore, probably in Washington, D.C.]

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Pond's Extract, the witch hazel-based toilet and medicinal preparation, takes center stage in this shop window at O'Donnell's drugstore, which the record places probably in Washington, D.C. Window displays like this were a major advertising tool for brand-name remedies and toiletries in the early twentieth century, when manufacturers relied on dealers to showcase bottles and packaging to passing shoppers. The National Photo Company made thousands of street and storefront views of the capital between about 1909 and 1932, so the picture offers a useful glimpse of how a neighborhood drugstore presented its wares to the public.

Created / published[between 1909 and 1932]
Medium1 photographic print.
GenrePhotographic prints 1900-1940.
NotesNational Photo Company Collection.
SubjectsWindow displays--Washington (D.C.)--1900-1940. Drugstores--Washington (D.C.)--1900-1940.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan4,096 × 3,292 px · prints to 14 × 11 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-177579

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