Back to albums list

Let's Go Shopping

by The Library of Congress

The U.S. News & World Report Magazine Photograph Collection (photos taken 1952-1986) depicts local, national, and international news topics, with particular emphasis on Washington, D.C., and the United States. USN&WR staff photographers took most of these storefront and shopping photos in the D.C. metropolitan area.

26 photos · 1.7K views

[African American woman showing a refrigerator to a man in a Sears department store] (LOC)

Buying real gucci bag at Gucci shop- Watergate (LOC)

Grocery store signs about shopping bags. (Safeway & Grand Union) (LOC)

Public Works Project in City of Baltimore [Cross Street Market] (LOC)

Home computer systems & computer store (LOC)

The Left Hand Shop, N.Y.C. (LOC)

Vietnamese store [3133 Wilson Blvd., Arlington, Virginia] (LOC)

Woodward & Lothrop, Wash. Xmas shoppers (LOC)

inside hardware store (LOC)

Drug Store Prescription Counter (LOC)

Giant Food Saccharin (LOC)

Consumer buying at Hecht Co (LOC)

Consumers buying Tires (LOC)

Hecht Co, Shoppers (LOC)

Hecht Co, shoppers (LOC)

Safeway International in [Washington,] D.C. (LOC)

[Two men look under the hood of a car in a parking lot at Brown Pontiac dealership, Arlington, Virginia] (LOC)

[Ludwig camera shop with sign and drive-thru window for film processing, possibly located at 2101 Wilson Boulevard, Arlington, Virginia] (LOC)

[Grand Union grocery store employee handing grocery bags to a person in automobile at a drive-thru pick up line] (LOC)

[Gas station attendant filling a car tank with custom blend gas, at a Sunoco gas station, Washington, D.C. area] (LOC)

[Women with shopping carts, one with a baby, in the baked goods section of a Giant food store in Washington, D.C.] (LOC)

[Man with shopping cart, in tool area of Hechinger's lumber and hardware store, speaking to an employee, Washington, D.C.] (LOC)

[Christmas shopper looking at a Speed Queen automatic clothes dryer in a department store, possibly with a salesperson] (LOC)

[Man looking though bins of records at a record store] (LOC)