Mrs. Maynard Amos

Item Information

• Description
  Caption by photographer (Andrews): "Mrs. Maynard Amos operated Amos' General Store at Callands, Va. with her husband until he suffered a stroke in 1999. Since then she has run the store on her own. One of only a handful of such rural businesses still in operation, it remains a gathering place for local farmers and a source for gasoline, farm supplies, groceries, patent medicines, and just about anything else a person might need."

• Item ID
  japph040030010
• Source Collection
  Jesse Andrews photographs, Rubenstein Library, Duke University
• Print Number
  JA_POR_51-35
• Spatial Coverage
  Virginia
  Pittsylvania County (Va.)
• Provenance
  The Jesse Andrews photographs were received by the David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library as a purchase in 2003, 2006, 2007, 2008, and 2011.
• Title
  Mrs. Maynard Amos
• Creator
  Andrews, Jesse
• Extent
  11 x 14 in.
• Date
  None
• Box Number
  Box 4
• Type
  Image
  Still Image
  photographs
  black-and-white photographs
  documentary photographs
  portraits
• Subject
  Women

• Copyright & Usage
  The copyright in the materials included in the Jesse Andrews Photographs collection are owned by the photographer. The photographs are made available by Duke University Libraries, with permission, for the purpose of research, teaching, and private study. For these purposes users may reproduce single copies of the images from this website without prior permission, on the condition that proper attribution is provided on all such copies. For all other uses, and especially for any proposed commercial uses, researchers must contact the Library to request permission.