Bargains on Market Street

Old Shop Window in Portsmouth / SeacoastNH.com Strawbery Banke Presents
HISTORIC PORTSMOUTH #129

In 1874 Thomas Bailey Aldrich wrote of Portsmouth: "Market Street is the stronghold of the dry- goods shops." Here in 1895 Henry C. Hopkins was learning to compete in a changing world. He replaced the slogan of his predecessor that read "everything first class". Hopkins, instead, proclaimed that he could "meet of beat Boston prices".

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Henry C. Hopkins shop on Market Street Portsmouth, NH, turn of century (c) Strawbery Banke Museum Archive

From HISTORIC PORTSMOUTH
Early Photographs from the Collections of Strawbery Banke
by James L. Garvin & Susan Grigg, Peter Randall Publisher
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Carved Bellamy eagle above Market Street shop, Portsmouth, NH (c) Strawbery Banke Museum photo archive

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