Mrs. Maynard Amos

Item Info

Title:
Mrs. Maynard Amos
Creator:
Andrews, Jesse
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."

  • Print number: JA_POR_51-35

Location:
Subject:
Women
Format:
Extent:
11 x 14 in.
Digital Collection:
Jesse Andrews Photographs
Source Collection:
Jesse Pyrant Andrews photographs and oral histories, 1973-2022
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.
Rights:
No Re-Use
In Copyright
Rights Note:
This item is made available for research, scholarship, and private study. Copyright in this item has not been transferred to Duke University. For reuses of this item beyond those permitted by fair use or otherwise allowed under the Copyright Act, please consult: https://library.duke.edu/rubenstein/research/citations-and-permissions.
Identifier:
  • Photographer's print number: JA_POR_51-35
  • ref239_yu5
  • andrewsj
  • duke:176765
  • japph040030010
  • ark:/87924/r3v40k84g
  • 0413409d-8acb-4880-8e3d-ebff5ecb974e
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Sponsor:
Adopted by Lesley Looper