Don's Drugs collection of advertising and product display photographs, 1938-1946

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Title:: Don's Drugs collection of advertising and product display photographs
Dates:: 1938-1946
Creators:: Don's Drugs (Modesto, Calif.) and Selvaggio, Marc (Bookseller)
Extent:: 0.1 Linear Feet (1 folder)
Language:: Materials are in English.

Scope and content:: A small collection of photographs and printed items document Don's Drugs, a small business at the corner of 16th and Jay Streets, in Modesto, California, from 1938-1946. The collection includes: a black-paper photoalbum, in black wrappers titled "Photographs", with 18 mounted black and white snapshots; a bank commercial deposits ledger (1938-1940); applications and business license registrations (1944-1946); a photograph of a woman preparing a window advertising display (1944, dated according to the current magazines on display); and an undated street view RPPC (real photo postcard; addressed and stamped but uncanceled) of the business. The photoalbum includes interior views of the pharmacy counters, window advertising displays, and one photograph of a man--Don, presumably--standing in the entrance doorway. The photoalbum is dated to May 1938 based on the issue of "Pictorial Review" magazine shown in a display rack.
Rules or conventions:: Describing Archives: A Content Standard

Collection Guide Author:: Finding aid prepared by Courtney Dean, 2020.
Date Encoded:: This finding aid was produced using ArchivesSpace on 2020-11-06 11:40:38 -0800 .

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Location of this collection:: UCLA, Library Special Collections, Medicine and Science

Louise M. Darling Biomedical Library

12-077 Center for Health Sciences, Box 951798

Los Angeles, CA 90095-1798, US