Peoples Drug store demonstration [photoprints and original negative]
odd: label: Exhibitions Note
content: Reproduction photograph of this image exhibited in "The Scurlock Studio and Black Washington: Picturing the Promise," NMAAHC Gallery, NMAH, January 30 - November 15, 2009; image reproduced in exhibit's companion book.
name: label: Photographer
content: Scurlock Studio (Washington, D.C.)
label: Photographer
content: Scurlock, Robert S. (Saunders), 1917-1994
label: Names
content: Peoples Drug Stores -- Washington (D.C.).
label: Series Creator
content: Scurlock, Robert S. (Saunders), 1917-1994
label: Series Creator
content: Scurlock, Addison N., 1883-1964
label: Series Creator
content: Custom Craft
label: Series Creator
content: Scurlock Studio (Washington, D.C.)
label: Series Creator
content: Scurlock, George H. (Hardison), 1919-2005
topic: label: Topic
content: Boycotts -- Washington (D.C.)
label: Topic
content: Civil rights
label: Topic
content: Civil rights demonstrations -- Washington (D.C.) -- 1940-1950.
label: Topic
content: Demonstrations -- Washington (D.C.).
label: Topic
content: Discrimination in employment
label: Topic
content: Drugstores
label: Topic
content: Picketing
creator: label: Photographer
content: Scurlock Studio (Washington, D.C.)
label: Photographer
content: Scurlock, Robert S. (Saunders), 1917-1994
setName: label: See more items in
content: Scurlock Studio Records, Series 1: Black and White Photographs
label: See more items in
content: Scurlock Studio Records, Series 1: Black and White Photographs / 1.2: Subjects Black and White Photographs / Social protests
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 5 Items (10 x 8", 7 x 5", and 5" x 4".)
phystech: label: Medium
content: Silver gelatin on paper.
unitdate: label: Date
content: [circa 1940s]
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives Center, National Museum of American History
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Photographs
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Photographs -- 1940-1950 -- Black-and-white photoprints -- Silver gelatin
label: Genre/Form
content: Photographs -- 1940-1950 -- Black-and-white negatives -- Acetate film
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Prints: Clergyman wearing hat and clerical collar, picketing People's Drugs, carrying sign urging boycott. Two workmen with a ladder are working at a window. Addison Scurlock may have taken the photograph, but the prints are probably by Robert. 3 of 4 prints captioned: "Picketing Peoples Drug Co. for equal employment c [ca.] 1940"; "Picketing 'Peoples Drug', 14th & U Sts. N.W."; and "Picketing 'Peoples' Drug at 14th & 'U' 1940s".
label: Scope and Contents
content: Photonegative: 5" x 4", Agfa film. Stored in box 68. Unscanned. Note: Another 5" x 4" negative shows a woman carrying the same sign in front of Peoples, Negative Box 68.