Title	[Photograph of four unidentified people]
Date	1940-1949
Date approximate?	yes
Time period (decade)	1940-1949
Subject headings	Greensboro (N.C.) -- History -- 20th century
Topics	East Market Street Transportation Businesses
Place	Greensboro (N.C.)
Description	This undated photograph shows people posed in front of the McNair drugstore on East Market Street. Of particular interest is the motorized bicycle used for deliveries.
Type	Image
Original format	photographs
Original publisher	[Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified]
Contributing institution	Personal collection
Source collection	CC026 Walter Lewis McNair Collection [Personal Collection]
Collection description	Walter Lewis McNair was born in Hamlet, N.C.. He received his elementary education in Laurinburg, N.C.. and matriculated at Biddle Institute, the forerunner to Johnson C. Smith University in Charlotte. He studied in the Leonard School of Pharmacy at Shaw University in Raleigh, N.C., graduating in 1897. McNair was a steward on a ship during the Spanish-American war. After the war McNair opened a pharmacy in Greensboro, N.C. It was first located on Fayetteville Road (now Martin Luther King, Jr. Drive), and later moved to 900 East Market Street. McNair was the first African American pharmacist in Greensboro . On loan from contributor. UNCG does not hold a physical copy of this item.
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Additional rights information	IN COPYRIGHT. This item is subject to copyright. Contact the contributing institution for permission to reuse.
Object ID	CC026.010
Digital access format	Image/jpeg
Digital publisher	The University of North Carolina at Greensboro, University Libraries, PO Box 26170, Greensboro NC 27402-6170, 336.334.5305 -- http://library.uncg.edu/
Sponsor	Institute of Museum and Library Services Sparks! Ignition Grants For Libraries: http://www.imls.gov/applicants/detail.aspx?GrantId=19
OCLC number	925376204

[Photograph of four unidentified people]

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