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ACCESSION NUMBER   976:0021:0133
CATEGORY   Business, Retail
SUBCATEGORY   Food store
TITLE   Dreyer's Self-Service Grocery & Market
DESCRIPTION   Interior view of Dreyer's Self-Service Grocery & Market in Corpus Christi, Texas. A man and woman stand in the center of the store. The woman, standing with her hands behind her back, wears a print apron. The man wears a long white apron and white cap, such as worn by butchers. Dreyer's sold Mother's and Quaker oats, Phillips and Cambell's soups, hen scratch, Swans Down cake flour, Calumet baking powder, bulk eggs, Goblin sweet corn, Kellogg's cereals and whole wheat biscuits, Lux soap, Sunset coffee, and milk in clear glass bottles. The posts in the produce counter were vegetable misters, which sprayed the produce with water.
SUBJECT   Grocers. (lctgm)
Grocery stores. (lctgm)
Interiors. (lctgm)
Men. (lcsh)
Self-service stores. (lcsh)
United States--Texas--Corpus Christi. (lcsh)
Women. (lcsh)