Primary Source: Bring Your Own Shopping Bag: Photographs of Supermarkets in the 1940s (5 OF 5) A...

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Editor: Cynthia Rose
Date: 2004
From: American Decades Primary Sources(Vol. 5: 1940-1949. )
Publisher: Gale
Document Type: Photograph
Content Level: (Level 4)

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Primary Source: Bring Your Own Shopping Bag: Photographs of Supermarkets in the 1940s (5 OF 5)  A supermarket worker points to a shopping bag rationing poster. Retailers were asked by the U.S. government to cut their use of paper bags in half. Primary Source: "Bring Your Own Shopping Bag": Photographs of Supermarkets in the 1940s (5 OF 5) A supermarket worker points to a shopping bag rationing poster. Retailers were asked by the U.S. government to cut their use of paper bags in half. PROGRESSIVE GROCER. This image may be used for personal, non-commercial purposes only.

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Gale Document Number: GALE|PC3490288003