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Drugstore interior.
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1 photograph : b&w ; 16 x 21 cm
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Richard Hobson (1938) was born to Wilfred Hobson (1899-1995) and Kathleen McKittrick (1904-1992). The family has its roots in the United Kingdom, and Hobson’s paternal grandfather Edward came to Canada from Ireland in 1884 and his father Wilfred from England in 1910. The two families settled in Ontario and Kathleen and Wilfred met in Toronto at St. Clement’s Church Tennis Club. Kathleen and Wilifred married and went on to have three children: John Edward (1933), Richard James (1938) and Kathleen Margaret Stephanie (?).
Richard Hobson married Mary (Penny) Paisley (b.1939), daughter of Elmer Paisley (1907-1976) and Margaret Rieder. Penny Paisley’s mother Margaret was the daughter of local prominent businessman Talmon Rieder and his wife Martha Anthes. (from Ancestry and "Hobson, Richard. One tree many roots. Waterloo: Richard Hobson, 2010").
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Originally belonged to Dorothy Shoemaker.
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File consists of one photograph of the interior of an elaborately appointed drugstore. Inside can be seen a number of workers at the soda counter, as well as patrons drinking and shopping. The store itself features a decorated tin ceiling, a decorated bar and numerous apothecary boxes and bottles. It is unknown who the shop belonged to.
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Scanned 2014.