Barr’s Store, Ethel Barr

Photograph

Wayland Museum

Name/Title

Barr’s Store, Ethel Barr

Entry/Object ID

ph-91-102-n

Description

Barr’s Store, tended by Ethel Barr whose parents kept it well-stocked with canned goods as well as "movie magazines," which made absorbing reading. The store also had a soda fountain on one side, and made Saturday deliveries. The photo probably dates to the mid-1930s. Store was on State Road West (Boston Post Road)

Photograph Details

Subject Person or Organization

barr, ethel

Collection

W. H. Folsom Shoebox Collection

Acquisition

Notes

(these were discovered in an old shoe box in the closet off the Stone Room, next to Willie’s shed in 1983)

Made/Created

Artist

Folsom, Wallace Herbert

Lexicon

Search Terms

Folsom, Wallace Herbert, (1884-1954) -- Photographer Barr, Ethel, (1813- ) Store -- Groceries Business -- Wayland, (Mass.) Newspapers Can goods Advertisements

Other Names and Numbers

Other Number

ph-91-102; B-96

Dimensions

Height

2-1/2 in

Width

4-1/4 in

General Notes

Note

[Total 761 negatives from original shoebox of Folsom negatives]