Object Details
- Photographer
- Getchell, W.H.
- Names
- Oriental Tea Co. -- Boston
- Sears, Roebuck and Company.
- Series Creator
- Warshaw, Isadore, 1900-1969
- Place
- Chicago (Ill.)
- Saratoga Springs (N.Y.)
- Topic
- Drugstores
- Tea
- advertising
- Business enterprises
- Pharmacies
- Churches
- Hardware stores
- Dry-goods
- Sales personnel
- Photographer
- Getchell, W.H.
- See more items in
- Warshaw Collection of Business Americana, Series 2: Other Collection Divisions
- Warshaw Collection of Business Americana, Series 2: Other Collection Divisions / 2.2: Stereographs / Stores
- Sponsor
- Funding for partial processing of the collection was supported by a grant from the Smithsonian Institution's Collections Care and Preservation Fund (CCPF). Digitization of Series 2.2: Stereographs was made possible by Andrew and Anya Shiva.
- Extent
- 107 Items
- Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements
- Silver on paper, mounted.
- Date
- ca. 1870-1930
- Container
- Box 6 (Stereographs)
- Archival Repository
- Archives Center, National Museum of American History
- Type
- Archival materials
- Photographs
- Halftones
- Photographs
- Stereographs
- Series Citation
- Warshaw Collection of Business Americana, Archives Center, National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution
- Processing Information
- Most of the stereographs in this Collection were reorganized and processed by Jennifer Songster-Burnett, January-May 1991.
- Series Rights
- Collection items available for reproduction, but the Archives Center makes no guarantees concerning copyright restrictions. Other intellectual property rights may apply. Archives Center cost-recovery and use fees may apply when requesting reproductions.
- Genre/Form
- Halftones
- Photographs -- Reproductions
- Photographs -- 1870-1930 -- Black-and-white photoprints -- Stereographs
- Stereographs -- 1880-1900
- Scope and Contents
- Incl. interior of the Oriental Tea Co. store, Boston, by W.H. Getchell; Weston & Hill Dry Goods (photog. unident.); 103 views of Sears, Roebuck & Co. (1 complete boxed set of fifty views with original box (box in poor condition) and 1 another nearly complete set from the series "A Trip through Sears & Roebuck & Co.", all halftone photomechanical reproductions); interior, Thayer & Lamberton's Drug Store, Saratoga, N.Y.; A. T. Stewart's Retail Store and Grace Church, New York City; and an unidentified street showing a hardware store.
- Restrictions
- Unrestricted research use. Photographs must be handled with white cotton gloves, unless protected by plastic sleeves.
- Record ID
- ebl-1562728815050-1562728815257-0
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