Lucius Beebe Memorial Library, Wakefield, Mass.

Title

Cheney building and store, 1868

Description

"The C.H.R. Cheney sign boasted that it sold 'Jewelry and Fancy Goods,' while the adjacent stores sold the Boston Herald, tonic, and ginger beer, and housed J.A. Cutter's Hair Dressing Rooms. The building was located on the eastern side of Main Street. Statistics gathered from 1868 reveal that there were 37 stores in Wakefield to meet the needs of the town's 3200 citizens. Thirty-four of those stores included eight grocery/grain, etc. four dry and fancy goods three clothing, shoes and boots three apothecaries three provisions two fruit and confectionery two furniture two wood, coal and lumber two jewelry one wood and ice one bread one shoe findings one hard and tin ware and one periodicals. The annual business of these stores was reported to be $500,000." -- Text from calendar by Jayne M. D'Onofrio.

Image from the Wakefield Municipal Gas and Light Department annual calendar, 1992

Photo courtesy of the Wakefield Historical Society.

Contributor

Institution: Lucius Beebe Memorial Library

Wakefield Municipal Gas & Light Department (Wakefield, Mass.)

D'Onofrio, Jayne M.

Coverage

Massachusetts--Middlesex (county)--Wakefield

Date

1868

Format

image/jpeg

Publisher

Wakefield, Mass. : Wakefield Municipal Gas & Light Department

Subject

Cheney Building (Wakefield, Mass.)

Commercial buildings

Storefronts

Type

still image

Photographs

Original Format

1 picture : b&w

Extent

19 x 32 cm.