Portrait of an unidentified employee and shopper in the produce area of a grocery store. They are facing each other and smiling. The grocer is holding a bunch of what may be celery.

Photograph showing several shoppers and an employee looking at canned food at a Fred Meyer store, probably in Portland.

Photograph showing an employee showing a cut of meat to two shoppers, a man and a woman, at the meat counter of a grocery store. The people and store are unidentified. The number 2014 is written on the negative and is partially visible in the upper right corner of the image.

Photograph showing four unidentified people, three men and a woman, with a display of Del Monte canned foods at a store. The three men are wearing Western hats and neckerchiefs. Above the display are signs with an illustration of a cowboy and the text “Del Monte Fall Round-Up / Fill your pantry with the best eating in town.”

A photograph of a crowd of shoppers packed into the Meier and Frank Department Store. Holiday decorations are visible on the back walls of the store. A stamp on the back of the photograph credits the image to Photo-Art Commercial Studios, image number 198399-7. The photograph was likely taken during the opening of the Meier & Frank store opening in Salem, Oregon in October, 1955.

Mrs. Jeanne Peek, of Astoria, standing on the steps of a West Coast Airlines plane, after doing her holiday shopping in Portland. She’s wearing a fur coat and holding several boxes. This photograph was published in the Oregon Journal on Wednesday, December 24, 1947 (negative 1 of 2).