Photographs
name: label: Collection Donor
content: Fournet, Fred G.
label: Collection Creator
content: Hallmark.
label: Collection Creator
content: Fournet Drugstore.
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content: Fournet Drugstore Collection
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1950-1967, undated
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives Center, National Museum of American History
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NMAH.AC.0346, Series 1
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Include black-and-white photographic prints, some with hand-coloring, of the St. Martinsville (French: Saint-Martin), Louisiana African American community. The images document public and private events, including weddings, graduations, the Rex Theatre baseball team, and family portraits. Most of the prints are identified and can be dated from the envelopes that are with them. The prints are arranged in alphabetical order by the name of the customer. Customer names identify the person who ordered the prints but is not necessarily the subject of the images. There is a small number of unidentified prints that are arranged by subject. In addition, there is a price list for black-and-white photo finishing. It appears that these photographs are the ones that customers never picked up from the drugstore. The images provide a valuable glimpse into the lives of African Americans in a southern town during the 1950s.