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Title
Series 166: Shops and shopping for the family food
Call number
PXE 731/1280-1304
Level of description
series
Date

between 1940 and 1966
Type of material
Graphic Materials, Photographs
Reference code
412282
Issue Copy
Digitised
Physical Description
24 photographic prints - silver gelatin - 22 x 32 cm or smaller
1 contact sheet (12 images) - silver gelatin - 26 x 21 cm
Scope and Content
Interiors of supermarkets, chemist shops, post offices, butchers, fruit and vegetable shops, general stores, shoe shops and cake shops plus others. Women and children shop and negotiate with mostly male shopkeepers.

1281. Housewives shopping in a supermarket in Hurstville
Copying Conditions
Copyright restrictions may apply:
Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales and Courtesy copyright holder
Description source

Titled from accompanying envelope.
General note

Dewey numbers 641 and 650 on accompanying envelopes.
Digital order no: Album ID : 954310
Signatures / Inscriptions

'N.S.W. Department of Education Visual Education Centre Library' stamped on reverse at PXE 731/1280, PXE 731/1281 and PXE 731/1300-1304. 'Dept. of the Interior News & Information Bureau' stamped on reverse at PXE 731/1280 and PXE 731/1281. Cardboard captions affixed to bottom of photos including shopping instructions for the home-maker at PXE 731/1282-1285.
Subject
Adult Females
Adult Males
children
Topic
interiors
biscuits
butchers
cake shops
cakes & buns
cash registers
cashiers
chemist shops
customers
families
food
fruits
general stores
jars
meat
post offices
saws
scales (apparatus)
shoe shops
shoes
shopkeepers
shopping centres
signs
supermarkets
vegetables
Place
Hurstville (N.S.W.)
Exhibited in

On Sale! Shops & Shopping - State Library of New South Wales (8 August - 30 November, 2011). Applies to: nos. 1287; 1289
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