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Peoples Drug Store, interior, 7th & K, [Washington, D.C.] – Vintage Wall Art

Peoples Drug Store, interior, 7th & K, [Washington, D.C.], [between 1920 and 1921] — historic photograph
Peoples Drug Store, interior, 7th & K, [Washington, D.C.], [between 1920 and 1921]. 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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Peoples Drug Store, interior, 7th & K, [Washington, D.C.] comes to life in this historic photograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.

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Peoples Drug Store, interior, 7th & K, [Washington, D.C.]

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Peoples Drug Store at Seventh and K Streets was a neighborhood fixture in downtown Washington, and this interior view shows the store in the early 1920s, when corner drugstores doubled as gathering spots with soda fountains and sundries counters. The National Photo Company, which documented the city in thousands of glass negatives during the early twentieth century, made the image, and its commercial interiors offer a useful record of how retail spaces looked just after the First World War. The glass plate shows streaks and blemishes from deterioration of its original coating, which is visible in the print.

Created / published[between 1920 and 1921]
Medium1 negative : glass ; 8 x 6 in.
GenreGlass negatives.
NotesTitle from unverified data provided by the National Photo Company on the negative or negative sleeve. Date from negatives in same range. Gift; Herbert A. French; 1947. This glass negative might show streaks and other blemishes resulting from a natural deterioration in the original coatings. Temp. note: Batch seven.
SubjectsUnited States--District of Columbia--Washington (D.C.)
SourceLibrary of Congress, National Photo Company Collection
Original scan7,040 × 5,431 px · prints to 23 × 18 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-NPC-259290

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