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ACCESSION NUMBER   976:0021:0169
CATEGORY   Business, Retail
SUBCATEGORY   Food store
TITLE   Unidentified grocery
DESCRIPTION   Interior view of an unidentified grocery store located in or around Corpus Christi, Texas. Two men, one in a white apron, and a woman stand behind a check out counter. Standing at the counter are a woman, man, and two girls. The children hold lollipops. This grocery was self-service as indicated by the bin for baskets. The store sold Wrigley's gum, 5¢; Baby Ruth; licorice; 16-ounce Prince Albert tobacco, 89¢; and offered a free can of Hi-Plane tobacco when three were purchased. A basket of potatoes sits next to the Coca Cola refrigeration box in the foreground.
SUBJECT   Consumers. (lctgm)
Girls. (lcsh)
Grocers. (lctgm)
Grocery stores. (lctgm)
Interiors. (lctgm)
Men. (lcsh)
United States--Texas. (lcsh)
Women. (lcsh)