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This photograph shows an exterior view of the Hillside Prescription Shop in Wichita, Kansas. The sign above the corner of the store includes the traditional Rx pharmacy prescription symbol. The sign below it advertises "Armstrong's Quality Chekd Ice Cream." Signs visible in the windows also advertise "Prescriptions, Cosmetics, Gifts," and "Johnson and Johnson First Aid Needs." Another sign advertises "Vitamins." To the left of the corner of the building, a telephone booth is visible, and an automobile is partially visible behind it.
Date: Between 1950 and 1970
Item Number: 213789
Call Number: FK2.S3 W.73 M.Hil *1
Holding Institution: Larry S. Wiggins. Transferred from MSS, 1974.
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 - Media/Communications - Telephone
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 - 1950s
Date - 1960s
Objects and Artifacts - Communication Artifacts - Documentary Artifact - Photograph
Places - Cities and towns - Wichita
Places - Counties - Sedgwick
Thematic Time Period - Eisenhower Years, 1946 - 1961
Thematic Time Period - The Sixties and Vietnam, 1961 - 1975
Transportation - Automobiles
Type of Material - Photographs
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