Girl knitting in Dickey's IRGA Food Market, Indianapolis, Indiana, 1938

Identifier

http://dp.la/api/items/1f782d786fe55c9457fe8992a8ecbd44

Title

Girl knitting in Dickey's IRGA Food Market, Indianapolis, Indiana, 1938

Date

8/5/1938

Description

Girl sitting in a rocking chair and knitting next to a stove in Marshall Dickey's IRGA (Independent Retail Grocers' Association) Food Market. Labeled as "Grace nitting / Friday August 5, 1938." Based on image ia-0008-0045, this is Grace Dickey (later Willoughby, 1922-2008) granddaughter of Marshall and Barbara Dickey. Products such as Canada Dry, 7-up, and Brillo pads are on display shelves. From a photo album compiled between 1935 and 1938 by Lee Wayne Dickey (1919-2003).

Subject

Don Johnson Collection
Grocery stores
Interiors
Knitting
Stoves
Indianapolis (Ind.)
Marion County (Ind.)

Source

Indiana Memory

Relation

https://s3.amazonaws.com/pastperfectonline/images/museum_383/007/thumbs/ia00080062.jpg

Type

image

References

http://indianaalbum.pastperfectonline.com/photo/2086821E-5076-4EA5-8D1C-520326931654

Citation

“Girl knitting in Dickey's IRGA Food Market, Indianapolis, Indiana, 1938,” Center for Knit and Crochet Digital Repository, accessed August 15, 2026, https://digital.centerforknitandcrochet.org/items/show/6014.

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