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Trace the development of groceries and markets in the U.S. Dry good stores of the early nineteenth century have given way to supermarkets, bodegas, convenience stories, and co-ops offering shoppers something for every meal. Shopping habits have followed customer demands for choice and convenience.

  • Woman selling apples on the Boston Common, 1870

    Title and date from item, from additional material accompanying item, or from information provided by the Boston Public Library.

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  • Jug made for customer use by M.A. Brown grocery store in Lennox, Massachusetts

    Title from accompanying materials. Light Tan Jug Date supplied by cataloger.

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  • Food market in Chinatown in San Francisco, California

    Folder: S.F. Districts-Chinatown-Businesses. Permission to use this image must be obtained from the San Francisco History Center, San Francisco Public Library: www.sfpl.org/permissions. Negative #9357

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  • Advertisement for Mess Mackeral fish, 1890

    Title from item. Date supplied by cataloger.

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  • Advertisement for AMC Perfect Cereals, 1890

    Title from item. Retailer: James E. Whitaker & Co., No. 174 State St., Boston Date supplied by cataloger. Akron Milling Co.

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  • Receipt for wholesale grocery purchase of flour and feed, 1893

    View Full Item  in Monarch Library System
  • Advertisement for Pike Place Market vendors, 1909

    unidentified

    The place where over 30,000 people do their buying every day. Where prices are lowest and cost of living made cheaper. The public market caters to all classes of people and offers goods to the consume…

    View Full Item  in University of Washington
  • Sausage counter at Max Schubert’s Food Market, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 1919

    Market counter in small store. Sausages hanging on walls and above counter. Cash register in middle and scale on far left. Two men in white shirts and smocks behind counter, woman to right between cou…

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  • Postcard of the French Market in New Orleans, Louisiana

    "Famous French Market, New Orleans, LA." Color image.

    View Full Item  in Memphis Public Library
  • Coupon for Martha Washington Candies, 1926

    Martha Washington Candies

    Illustration of portrait [Martha Washington? and list of address of locations selling Martha Washington Candies including Namm's on Fulton Street. Verso side: text,"To further introduce our candies to…

    View Full Item  in Brooklyn Public Library
  • Advertisement for Kellogg’s whole wheat biscuits

    U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware. 9/24/1789

    View Full Item  in National Archives at Philadelphia
  • Refrigerated food cases in Grand Central grocery in Utah, 1940

    Rumel, Hal

    Exterior view of Grand Central Market grocery and drug.

    View Full Item  in Utah Department of Cultural and Community Engagement
  • Couple reading a food stamps poster in grocery store in Los Angeles, California

    View Full Item  in UCLA, Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library
  • Community store selling dry goods and packaged food at Heart Mountain Internment Camp in Wyoming, 1942

    Full title:Typical scene in the Community Enterprise Stores at the Heart Mountain Relocation Center. Chief stocked item are tobacco, drug sundries, a limited line of canned and packaged groceries and…

    View Full Item  in UC Berkeley, Bancroft Library
  • Kroger grocery display of Campbell’s canned soup

    Lafayette Studios

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  • Exterior of a 7/11 convenience store, 1947

    Mears, Dewey G

    Photograph of a view of a 7-Eleven store. There are no cars in the parking lot. Across the top of the building is a sign for 7-Eleven, and advertisements for food, ice, meats, and ice cream. a bin in…

    View Full Item  in Austin History Center, Austin Public Library
  • Handbook on food shopping, 1950

    Hovey, Helen Stone

    View Full Item  in Cornell University
  • Clerk at a Milwaukee coop food market

    Male clerk writing on counter next to scale and crate of avocados. Phone and cash register also visible behind scale. Signs and prices for other food items visible on back wall and far lower right. We…

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  • Jewel Food Store in Layton, Wisconsin, 1972

    This photograph shows the Jewel Food Store on South Layton Boulevard. T72-10 / 5. Oct 6, 1972 (Fri.) Mitchell Park Shopping Center - from roof of Apt. - before storm. / Kodachrome II 4/2.8 @1/25

    View Full Item  in Milwaukee Public Library
  • Inside Vasquez Grocery Store, a bodega in the Bronx, New York, 1977

    Conzo, Joe (American hip hop photographer)

    The interior of Vazquez Grocery Store, a bodega near Michelangelo Apartments.

    View Full Item  in Cornell University
  • Fish throwers at Pike Place Market, 1993

    TLN Pike Place Fish1993.mov

    Clip title supplied by cataloger.

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  • Food booth at a Mexican market, 1994

    Informedia, Sidoric, June

    Photograph of a Mexican Market food booth at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. In the photograph, a festival visitor purchases food from the booth. The booth is decorated with hats an…

    View Full Item  in UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections
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