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This photograph shows an interior view of an unidentified drug store in De Soto, Kansas. A man is partially visible in the back of the store. Several glass bottles are visible on shelves on the left side of the picture. A glass cabinet has a sign at the top which appears to read "The California Perfumes." Another sign on the back wall advertises "Monarch Mixed Paint." Visible just to the right of the man is a large glass bottle with the label "Drugs" on it. The sign on the glass display case in the foreground of the picture advertises "Tuxedo Junior Cigar, Absolutely Havana Filler" for a price of 5 cents. Many other items are visible on the shelves along the side of the store on the right side of the picture.
Date: Between 1890 and 1940
Item Number: 213681
Call Number: FK2.J4 D.73 M. *3
Holding Institution: Pansy Penner, 1974.
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 - Retail - Drugstores
Business and Industry - Retail - Tobacco
Business and Industry - Retail - Tobacco - Cigars
Collections - Photograph
Date - 1890s
Date - 1900s
Date - 1910s
Date - 1920s
Date - 1930s
Date - 1940s
Objects and Artifacts - Communication Artifacts - Documentary Artifact - Photograph
Places - Cities and towns - De Soto
Places - Counties - Johnson
Thematic Time Period - Age of Reform, 1880 - 1917
Thematic Time Period - Age of Reform, 1880 - 1917 - Populism, 1890 - 1900
Thematic Time Period - Age of Reform, 1880 - 1917 - Progressive Era, 1900 - 1916
Thematic Time Period - Great Depression and Dust Bowl, 1929 - 1941
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
Thematic Time Period - World War II, 1939 - 1945
Type of Material - Photographs
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