Mayfair Market Photograph Collection
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Title: Mayfair Market Photograph Collection
Dates: 1940-1960
Collection Number: MS.016
Creator/Collector:
Extent: 1 box, .25 linear ft.
Repository:
San Diego Public Library
San Diego, California 92101
Abstract: This is collection of 17 cardboard photographs detailing what a grocery store was like in the 1940s-1960s. This Mayfair Market
was located on 5075 Federal Boulevard, San Diego, California, 92102. The collection includes photographs that depict scenes
of families shopping in the food aisle, the back-loading area, the storefront with empty carts and customers, stock boys stocking
shelves, butchers handling meat, and a National Rambler being sold out in the front of the store. The back of each photograph
contains a set of teaching questions that refer back to the grocery scene and a withdraw stamp over the number X3909, demonstrating
that the photographs were previous teaching materials available with the public library that have been withdrawn from circulation.
Language of Material: English
Collection is open for research.
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Mayfair Market Photograph Collection. San Diego Public Library
Scope and Content of Collection
This is collection of 17 cardboard photographs detailing what a grocery store was like in the 1940s-1960s. This Mayfair Market
was located on 5075 Federal Boulevard, San Diego, California, 92102. The collection includes photographs that depict scenes
of families shopping in the food aisle, the back-loading area, the storefront with empty carts and customers, stock boys stocking
shelves, butchers handling meat, and a National Rambler being sold out in the front of the store. The back of each photograph
contains a set of teaching questions that refer back to the grocery scene and a withdraw stamp over the number X3909, demonstrating
that the photographs were previous teaching materials available with the public library that have been withdrawn from circulation.