Cloverdale Company Store, 1915

Collection Name:

George W. Perry Scrapbooks

Title:

Cloverdale Company Store, 1915

Creator:

Perry, George W., 1891-1971

Creator Role:

Collector

Accession / Call Number:

1974.045

Object ID:

1974.045.49.020

Date:

1915

Type of Material:

graphic material

Physical Description:

1 photograph

Language:

English

Scope and Content:

Photographic print of the Cloverdale Creamery store at 75 North Main Street in Concord, NH, dated 1915. The caption states, "Cloversale [Cloverdale] Company Store 75 North Main Street 1915 This Concord branch of the Cloverdal[e] stores was one of the most attractive of their sixty-five. There were twelve other branches in New Hampshire, four located at Manchester, Penacook, Tilton, Laconia, Rochester, Somersworth, Claremont and Keene. Clean stores, courteous treatment, low prices and high-grade goods have earned for this company great success and an enviable reputation. The Company was organized in Boston in 1900. All the business is conducted on a strictly cash basis, both buying and selling. There was no delivery of goods and no sales on credit. The savings meant that the prices named was for the value of the goods only, as no customer was called upon to pay any share of a fix charge for an expensive delivery system or for the losses due to bad bills. This illustration of the cracker, cheese and butter departments, was used by Wallace F. Purrington, state food and drug inspector, in his pure food lectures throughout the state. as a model section of a pure food store, everything being displayed under glass covers. The specialties carried by this company were butter, cheese, eggs, lard, beans, coffee, tea, cocoa, crackers and canned goods. For the past ten years this branch was managed by Jerome A. Kelly. I remember this store as the one to make peanut butter right from whole peanuts in a machine similar to a coffee grinder, fresh for each customer."

Subjects:

Grocers , Grocery trade , Food

Locations:

Concord, NH

People:

Perry, George W., 1891-1971

Organizations:

Cloverdale Creamery

Terms of Use:

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Credit Line:

Gift of May Nutter.

Restrictions:

Available for research.

Level Description:

Item

Box Number:

11