City - Lewiston State - MAINE Country - United States
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My dads sister when she was 17 yrs old. Dated January 29th, 1944. Taken at Pecks* Dept Store in Lewiston Maine. This is an 8 x 10 color print on that type of paper that resembles fabric, can't think of the name at the moment. I also have it as a 5x7 B&W picture. I'm thinking this could have been her high school senior picture. Unedited.
*The Pecks Building (1898) - Once home of the largest department store east of Boston, B. Peck Co. closed more than a decade ago. It was, in its heyday, so elegant that even the pipes for the pneumatic tube cash carrier system were decorated. Rising five stories from Main Street, the shopping facility came to be known as "The Great Department Store." In the 50s and 60s, the arrival of Santa at Peck's heralded the start of the Christmas season. Since 1988, the building has been home to one of three Maine L.L. Bean telephone order centers.
I didn't know what or who Pecks was. It was written on the back of the photograph with the other information. I thought it might have been the studio where the picture was taken. When I did a search on Pecks in Lewiston Maine that when I found out about the building.
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{K:78768} 9/12/2010