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ACCESSION NUMBER   976:0021:0177
CATEGORY   Business, Retail
SUBCATEGORY   Food store
TITLE   Unidentified grocery
DESCRIPTION   Interior view of an unidentified grocery store located in or around Corpus Christi, Texas. The owner stands at a display counter with his young daughter. Another man stands at the cash register behind the counter. Both men wear white aprons over their shirts and vests. Three additional men stand behind the cigarette case. A fifth man in a white apron can be seen in the rear of the store. This grocery sold Armour products, Miracle Whip salad dressing for 11¢-30¢, Red & White peaches and pineapples, Flav-R Jel, Big Value shortening, Wesson and Plato oils, and assorted candies and tobaccos. Note the refrigerated meat counter and the unrefrigerated produce section.
SUBJECT   Consumers. (lctgm)
Girls. (lcsh)
Grocers. (lctgm)
Grocery stores. (lctgm)
Interiors. (lctgm)
Men. (lcsh)
Merchants. (lctgm)
United States--Texas. (lcsh)