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This photograph shows an exterior view of a drug store in Valley Center, Kansas. Besides the large signs advertising "Drugs," there are several other advertising signs. The sign to the right of the corner door reads, "Drugs, books, paints, oils, and glass. Wall paper. Prescriptions a specialty." Another sign advertises Keen Cigars, while another reads, "Agency, Hammar Paint, Guaranteed 5 years." There is a sign advertising "Faust," and a price of five cents. Visible outside of the store are a horse and buggy, and telephone poles. The item served as a new year's greeting to customers.
Date: 1907
Item Number: 213788
Call Number: FK2.S3 V.73 M. *1
Holding Institution: Wichita Public Library, 1972.
Built Environment - Areas of Significance - Commerce
Built Environment - Areas of Significance - Communications
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 - Book and stationary stores
Business and Industry - Retail - Drugstores
Business and Industry - Retail - Hardware stores
Business and Industry - Retail - Tobacco - Cigars
Collections - Photograph
Date - 1900s - 1907
Objects and Artifacts - Communication Artifacts - Advertising Medium - Card
Objects and Artifacts - Communication Artifacts - Documentary Artifact - Photograph
Places - Cities and towns - Valley Center
Places - Counties - Sedgwick
Thematic Time Period - Age of Reform, 1880 - 1917 - Progressive Era, 1900 - 1916
Thematic Time Period - Industrialization and the National Economy, 1870 - 1920
Transportation - Non-motorized - Buggy
Type of Material - Photographs
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