A real photo postcard showing Boyer's Drugstore in York, Nebraska, photographed squarely from the pavement. A small child in a cap and light-colored outfit stands in the recessed entrance beneath the number 521. Display windows flank the doorway, with hanging paper decorations above and a gathered canvas awning across the brick storefront.
The left window holds orderly rows of bottles and cartons, accompanied by advertisements for Velvetina toilet specialties. Stacked tins fill much of the right window, where La Resta cigar signs include a five-cent price. Both displays carry the instruction “GET IT AT BOYER'S,” while the lower window panels repeat the store name and “PURE DRUGS.” The large sign overhead advertises drugs and wallpaper.
The white handwritten caption reproduced along the foot of the photograph reads “YORK NEBR.” This agrees with the supplied identification and the business lettering visible throughout the storefront. The child is unidentified, and no photographer or publisher is credited.
The divided reverse carries a birthday greeting signed “Boyer's Drug Store.” and an address to a Jones recipient on York rural route 1. A York, Nebraska, cancellation dated 21 December 1914 ties the green one-cent Washington stamp. The cancellation establishes the card's postal use by that date, rather than the precise date of the photograph.
- Title on card
- YORK NEBR. (inscribed)
- Medium
- RPPC
- Subject
- Children, Nebraska, Occupational, Outdoor Scene
- Dimensions
- 5.44 × 3.41 in (138.2 × 86.6 mm)
- Condition
- Small localized surface losses at the far right edge, outside the principal storefront; the main image is clean and the card otherwise sound.
- Provenance
- Period postal use: mailed at York, Nebraska, on 21 December 1914 to Rocilla Jones, York, R 1, with a birthday greeting signed “Boyer's Drug Store.”
- Catalogue no.
- MRPPC3448
Catalogue details
Location
York, Nebraska · York, Nebraska, United States
Photographed subject · Locality (town) · 80% confidence
the card names only the town. Looked up as "York, Nebraska" → York, York, NE 68467, USA. Order tried: caption-town: "York, Nebraska" → city ✓; Live research: The depicted business is securely identified, but its exact street address remains unverified. The supplied front reading combines the unambiguous caption “YORK NEBR.” with Boyer's business lettering. Independent archival evidence matches the distinctive storefront slogan: a November 1919 advertisement in York College's Sandburr names Boyer's drug store as a York business and repeats “Get It At Boyer's.” ([york.edu](https://www.york.edu/about/archives/sandburr-files/1919_vol_20_2_nov_1_1919.pdf)) An October 1911 Sandburr advertisement also locates a doctor's office above Boyer's Drug Store, confirming the business before the postcard's postal use. ([york.edu](https://www.york.edu/about/archives/sandburr-files/1911_vol_11_1_oct_1911.pdf)) The Illustrated History of York places Boyer's beneath Hatfield & Son's dental offices on the
Source: Card caption (town only)
