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These three photographs show interior views of the Round Corner Drug Store, located at 8th and Massachusetts streets in Lawrence, Kansas. In the first photograph, dated around 1915, the soda fountain counter is visible, and several employees and customers are in the store. The man second from the right is identified as W. H. Varnum, an owner of the store. The second photograph shows four men in the store (left to right): Francis Benedict, George Lowman, Dr. E. H. Varnum, and W. H. Varnum. The third photograph, dated January 20, 1922, shows a view of the soda fountain. The man standing third from the left is Francis Benedict.
Date: Between 1915 and January 20, 1922
Item Number: 213625
Call Number: FK2.D4 L.73 M.Rou *2-4
Holding Institution: David Dary, 1981.
Built Environment - Areas of Significance - Commerce
Built Environment - Areas of Significance - Health/Medicine
Built Environment - Function - Commerce/Trade - Business
Business and Industry - Health care - Pharmacies
Business and Industry - Occupations/Professions - Pharmacists
Business and Industry - Retail - Drugstores
Business and Industry - Retail - Drugstores - Soda fountain
Business and Industry - Services - Food and drink - Soda fountain
Collections - Photograph
Date - 1910s
Date - 1910s - 1915
Date - 1920s - 1922
Objects and Artifacts - Communication Artifacts - Documentary Artifact - Photograph
Places - Cities and towns - Lawrence
Places - Counties - Douglas
Thematic Time Period - Age of Reform, 1880 - 1917
Thematic Time Period - Age of Reform, 1880 - 1917 - Progressive Era, 1900 - 1916
Thematic Time Period - Industrialization and the National Economy, 1870 - 1920
Thematic Time Period - The Twenties, 1920 - 1929
Thematic Time Period - World War I, 1914 - 1919
Type of Material - Photographs
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