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This photograph shows an exterior view of a drug store in Valley Falls, Kansas. The painted sign on the side of the building shows the traditional mortar and pestle pharmacy symbol, with the words "Coy's Corner" on it. The sign across the front of the building reads, "H. A. Coy, Pharmacist." The sign on the window reads "Diamond Dyes." There are several men, a woman, and a girl visible outside the store, including a man standing at the top of the exterior stairs on the side of the building. There are also two dogs standing next to the man and woman near the corner of the building.
Date: Between 1900 and 1920
Item Number: 213678
Call Number: FK2.J2 V.73 M.Coy *1
Holding Institution: Dale Irwin, 1965.
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
Collections - Photograph
Date - 1900s
Date - 1910s
Date - 1920s
Objects and Artifacts - Communication Artifacts - Documentary Artifact - Photograph
Places - Cities and towns - Valley Falls
Places - Counties - Jefferson
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 - World War I, 1914 - 1919
Type of Material - Photographs
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