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[Cigar store - Buffalo - show room] – Vintage Print

[Cigar store - Buffalo - show room], c1911 Sept. 13. — historic photograph
[Cigar store - Buffalo - show room], c1911 Sept. 13.. Historic photograph from the Buffalo 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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Step back in time with [Cigar store - Buffalo - show room], a historic photograph rich in period detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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Little is recorded about this interior beyond its title, which places a cigar store show room in Buffalo, New York, with a date of September 13, around 1911. Tobacco shops of that era typically arranged their stock in glass-fronted cases and wall shelving so customers could inspect boxes of cigars, pipes, and smoking accessories before buying. The photograph was registered for copyright by The Beaver Co., which suggests it was made for a business purpose. The catalog notes are unverified, so the picture is best read as a glimpse of everyday downtown retailing in the early twentieth century.

Created / publishedc1911 Sept. 13.
Medium1 photographic print.
SubjectsJ160143 U.S. Copyright Office. Photo copyrighted by The Beaver Co. No copyright renewal. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Photog. I.; Tobacco--Misc.; Stores...; New York--B-; Shelf.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,221 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-137332

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