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Ben Franklin Store - Grand Opening

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Title

Ben Franklin Store - Grand Opening

Subject

Stores - Virginia - Woodstock
Woodstock (Va)

Description

Photograph showing the interior of the Ben Franklin Store in Woodstock at the time of its Grand Opening.

Many unidentified customers are visible in the aisles.

Woodstock's Ben Franklin Store opened in 1936. It moved to this location in the Woodstock Shopping Center on the north end of town in the 1960s after originally being located in downtown Woodstock. It closed in 2010.

Creator

Morrison Studio

Source

Morrison Studio Collection - Shenandoah County Historical Society

Publisher

Shenandoah County Library

Date

Undated

Contributor

Identified in 2025 by library staff based on other photographs of the same event in the Morrison Studio Collection.

Rights

IN COPYRIGHT - NON-COMMERCIAL USE PERMITTED

Relation

Interior photographs of the Ben Franklin Store at the time of its opening are visible in Morrison Studio Collection images 028204, 028213, 028379, 029250, and 029755.

Identifier

029250

Original Format

Film Negative

Citationzork

Morrison Studio, “Ben Franklin Store - Grand Opening,” Shenandoah County Library Archives, accessed December 5, 2025, https://archives.countylib.org/items/show/72566.

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