Type of Work: Retail and Services

Early typist in Philadelphia

Unidentified man working on very early typewriter (note: no cover on the working mechanism). Circa 1910. Philadelphia, NY.

Keller’s Store in Philadelphia

Keller’s Meats & Groceries with unknown clerks/owners on front stoop. Note the signs around them: Gas, 15 cents a gallon—cash! CERTO special, 2 for 53 cents (Certo is still used today to make jellies and jams and costs about $2.50 a box). 1915. Philadelphia, NY.