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The Columbia retail district, Main Street, around 1908. Courtesy of the South Caroliniana Library.
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This country general store and post office in the saw mill town of Ashepoo was photographed in June 1939 by Marion Post for the Farm Security Administration. Courtesy of the South Caroliniana Library.
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J.H. Rivers ran a country store on his farm, photographed here around 1890. He later opened a general store in the town of Hampton. Courtesy of Mildred B. Rivers.
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The retail section of Columbia, photographed in 1908. Courtesy of the South Caroliniana Library.
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Most mill villages featured a company store where mill operatives could buy the necessities of life without leaving the town. The interior of this store in the Winnsboro Mill Village in Fairfield...
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Street merchant Lynn Cohens sells souvenirs at the corner of Assembly and Rosewood during the visit of Pope John Paul to Columbia, September 1987. Photo by Sean Keeter. Courtesy of "The State"...
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Drug stores played an important role in the business districts of small towns in South Carolina. This is the interior of the Searson Drug Store in Allendale around 1907. Courtesy of the South...
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The men's clothing store of S.M. Jones and Company in Chester, around the turn of the century. Courtesy of the Winthrop University Archives.
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The interior of Raffield's Beauty Salon in Sumter was also the home of the Sumter Beauty School around 1940. Photo by Lecoq Studios. Courtesy of the Sumter County Museum Archives.
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Open air markets have been an important way for farmers to sell their produce to city people. The artist Alfred Hutty (1877-1954) created a vivid etching of the Charleston Market in the 1920s...