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In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, businesses in the United States offered an increasingly wide array of goods and services. To entice customers and to celebrate their workplaces, owners and workers took advantage of new advertising strategies, including photography. Advancements in photographic processes provided the means to broaden the scope of who and what were represented through the photographic lens.

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  • Welcome to the Exhibition
  • View the Objects
  • The History of Photography
  • The Wilmington Story
  • The Businesses
  • Listen up!
  • Join the Conversation
  • Acknowledgments
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