Cabinet card photograph showing the storefront of Davenport Brothers, manufacturers and dealers in picture frames, located at 123 Penn Avenue, Scranton, Pennsylvania. The storefront is heavily decorated with framed pictures and mouldings displayed both inside the window and along the exterior façade beneath a scalloped awning reading “Picture Frames Made to Order.” The glass door prominently displays the number 123 and the business name Davenport Bro’s.
Several men and boys stand in front of the shop surrounded by stacks of frames and framed paintings. One man holds a large frame while another stands beside a pile of newly manufactured frames stacked in front of the window display. Numerous framed landscape paintings and decorative pieces hang inside the shop window, illustrating the range of goods offered by the business.
The reverse bears a printed advertisement reading “Compliments of Davenport Brothers – Manufacturers of Picture Frames, Window Cornices, and Dealers in Mirrors and Parlor Piers, Oil Paintings, Chromos, Engravings, Photographs, Mouldings, etc., No. 123 Penn Avenue, Opposite St. Charles Hotel, Scranton, Pa.” with a small “Evans’ Photo” credit at the bottom. Photographs documenting specific businesses and trades in operation are appealing records of late nineteenth-century commercial life.
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