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By Susie Ricketts
Collection Overview
Abstract
Photographs of the Begley Drug Company showing the addition of new stores over time.
Scope and Contents of the Materials
This photo album documents the growth of the Begley Drug Company with photographs of stores, employees and grand openings. Most of the photographs are undated, but appear to be from the late 1960s and 1970s. Stores were located all over Kentucky with one in Tennessee. Also included are several stores in Jackson, Mississippi that are labeled Begley Patterson and were presumably stores purchased by Begley Drug Company. Each store was given a number and there are numbers missing in this record. Later in the album a ribbon cutting photo includes a sign stating "39th store;" however the store number was 66.
Collection Historical Note
Begley Drug Company was founded in London, Kentucky in 1921 by Byron B. Begley. His brother Robert B. Begley joined the business in 1932 after graduating from the University of Louisville School of Pharmacy. The brothers opened a second store in Richmond in 1934 and Richmond became the headquarters for the company at that time. In 1948 the company was incorporated and Byron served as president, while Robert was elected executive vice president. Robert B. Begley was elected as president and chairman of the board in 1954 and served in that role until 1974 when he was elected as chairman of the Board of the Begley Drug Company and his son Robert J. Begley was elected as President. The company was taken over by Rite Aid in 1988.
Source was "Robert B. Begley Dies of Heart Attack," Eastern Progress, December 6, 1977.
Subject/Index Terms
Administrative Information
Repository:
Eastern Kentucky University - Special Collections and Archives
Acquisition Source:
Begley, George
Box and Folder Listing
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- Folder 1
- Item 1: Begley Drug Store, London, KY
- Store number 1. 2 photographs, one of store employees in front of store, the other of Harry Houchens presenting an award to Mike Morton and Hazel Banks.
- Barcode: 31234013925852
- Item 2: Begley Drug Store, Richmond, KY, 1972
- Store number 2. 5 photographs, three of the interior of the downtown Richmond store with signs letting people know the store is moving, two of pharmacist Wesley Powell.
- Item 3: Begley Drug Store, Shelbyville, KY
- Store number 6. 4 photographs, one of children with bikes in front of store, one of front of the store, one of store interior, one of two men inside the store.
- Item 4: Begley Drug Store. Stanford, KY
- Store number 10. 2 photographs, two of the front of the store.
- Item 5: Begley Drug Store, Winchester, KY
- Store number 15. 2 photographs, two of interior of store showing displays and advertisements.
- Creator: Eaton's
- Item 6: Begley Drug Store, Lexington, KY
- Store number 17. 3 photographs, one of front of store, one of male employee inside of the store, one with two female employees inside of the store.
- Item 7: Begley Drug Store, Lexington, KY
- Store number 18. 7 photographs, one of cashier Margie Berry and 4 other emplyees inside the store, four of the front of the store, one of three employees standing near booths inside the store, and one of three employees. next to a Valentine's Day display
- Creator: Cobb Photography*LaFayette Studio
- Item 8: Begley Drug Store, Lexington, KY
- Store number 24. 4 photographs, one of pharmacy with pharmacist, three of store interior with Christmas decorations.
- Item 9: Begley Drug Store, Manchester, KY
- Store number 29. 4 photographs, one of employees with a ribbon in front of the store for the grand opening, one of employees in front of the store with the franchise agreement, one of the front of the store with a boy walking in, one of the pharmacy inside.
- Item 10: Begley Drug Store, Lebanon, KY
- Store number 30. 4 photographs, three of the front of the store and one of the side of the store.
- Item 11: Begley Drug Store, Maysville, KY
- Store number 31. 1 photograph, of ribbon-cutting in front of the store for the grand opening.
- Item 12: Begley Drug Store, Richmond, KY
- Store number 32. 1 photograph, one of the front of the store.
- Item 13: Begley Drug Store, Barbourville, KY
- Store number 33. 4 photographs, one of outside of store with grand opening sign, three of customers shopping inside of the store.
- Item 14: Begley Drug Store, Maysville, KY
- Store number 34. 4 photographs, one of the front of the store, one of the front of the store with grand opening sign, two of customers shopping inside.
- Item 15: Begley Drug Store, Middlesboro, KY
- Store number 35. 2 photographs, one of the front of the store and parking lot, and one of a Begley Drug Store sign with Coca Cola and Food Town signs.
- Item 16: Begley Drug Store, Lexington, KY
- Store number 36. 3 photographs, two of the front of the store, one of a drawing of the front of the store.
- Item 17: Begley Drug Store, Richmond, KY
- Store number 37. 1 photograph, one of employees in front of the store with a grand opening sign.
- Item 18: Begley Drug Store, Danville, KY
- Store number 39. 2 photographs, two of front of the store.
- Item 19: Begley Drug Store, Berea, KY, 1976
- Store number unknown, 1 photograph of five men standing in front of the store.
- Creator: Bruner Studio
- Item 20: Begley Drug Store, Glasgow, KY
- Store number 40. 6 photographs, one of employees cutting ribbon in front of the store, one of two employees in front of store, one of front of store with grand opening sign, one of pharmacy, one of store shelves, one of employees inside store.
- Item 21: Begley Drug Store, Jackson, MS
- Store number 41. 2 photographs, one of front of the store, one of pharmacist Billy Batson inside of store.
- Item 22: Begley Drug Store, Jackson, MS
- Store number 42. 1 photograph, one of front of the store.
- Item 23: Begley Drug Store, Jackson, MS
- Store number 43. 1 photograph, one of front of the store.
- Item 24: Begley Drug Store, Jackson, MS
- Store number 44. 1 photograph, one of front of the store.
- Item 25: Begley Drug Store, Jackson, MS
- Store number 45. 1 photograph, one of front of the store.
- Item 26: Begley Drug Store, Jackson, MS
- Store number 46. 1 photograph, one of front of the store with Highland Village sign.
- Item 27: Begley Drug Store, Jackson, MS
- Store number 47. 1 photograph, one of front of the store.
- Item 28: Begley Drug Store
- Store number unknown. 1 photograph, one of employees cutting ribbon in front of the store.
- Item 29: Begley Drug Store, Bardstown KY
- Store number 48. 3 photographs, one of employees cutting ribbon in front of the store, one of two employees in front of the store, one of four employees in front of the store.
- Item 30: Begley Drug Store, Lexington, KY
- Store number 49. 2 photographs, one of front of the store and one of a drawing of the front of the store.
- Creator: Cobb Photography
- Item 31: Begley Drug Store, New Tazwell, TN
- Store number 50. 1 photograph, one of front of the store.
- Item 32: Begley Drug Store, Murray, KY
- Store number 51. 1 photograph, one of the front of the store with grand opening signs.
- Item 33: Begley Drug Store
- Store number 52. 1 photograph, one of front of the store.
- Item 34: Begley Drug Store, Jackson, MS
- Store number 53. 1 photograph, one of employees in front of the store with a large Begley's/Patterson Drugs sign.
- Item 35: Begley Drug Store, Jackson, MS
- Store number 54. 3 photographs, one of the front of the store, one of the shopping center the store is in, one of inside of store with shelves and advertising sings.
- Item 36: Begley Drug Store, Lexington, KY
- Store number 56. 6 photographs, one of employees cutting ribbon in front of the store, four of employees and customers inside of the store, one of the front of the store with grand opening signs.
- Creator: Lexington Herald Leader
- Item 37: Begley Drug Store, London, KY
- Store number 59. 3 photographs, two of employees cutting ribbon in front of the store, one of the front of the store with grand opening sign.
- Item 38: Begley Drug Store, Corbin, KY
- Store number 61. 4 photographs, one of employees cutting ribbon in front of store, one of employees standing in front of the store, one inside of the store with an employee at the pharmacy, one of inside of store under a cosmetics sign.
- Creator: Bruner Studio
- Item 39: Begley Drug Store, Lexington, KY
- Store number 62. 1 photograph, one of Frank Smith, Francis Mudd, Harry Sykes, Robert B. Begley, Robert Stephens, Robert Young, Tom Clarkson, Robert J. Begley, and Clifford Napier cutting ribbon in front of the store, 1 newspaper clipping with same photo of employees cutting ribbon in front of the store.
- Creator: Herald Leader Photo, John C. Wyatt
- Item 40: Begley Drug Store, Georgetown, KY
- Store number 63. 3 photographs, one of employees holding sign and cutting ribbon in front of store, one of front of store, one of four employees inside of the store
- Item 41: Begley Drug Store, Monticello, KY
- Store number 64. 4 photographs, two of inside of the store with employees chatting, one of customers at a food bar inside of the store, one of the front of the store with grand opening signs.
- Creator: Town & Country Photographers, Inc.
- Item 42: Begley Drug Store, Berea, KY
- Store number 65. 3 photographs, one of employees inside with lollipops, one of employees inside of the store, one of employees cutting a ribbon in front of the store.
- Item 43: Begley Drug Store, Carrollton, KY
- Store number 66. 4 photographs, two of employees cutting ribbon in front of store, one of employees inside of the store near greeting cards, one of a man in front of the store.
- Item 44: Begley Drug Store, Lexington, KY
- Store number 70. 1 photograph, employees cutting ribbon in front of apothecary sign.
- Item 45: Begley Drug Store, Cynthiana, KY
- Store number 71. 1 photograph, one of employees cutting ribbon in front of the store.
- Item 46: Begley Drug Store, Frankfort, KY
- Store number 72. 1 photograph, one of employees cutting ribbon in front of the store.
- Item 47: Begley Drug Store
- Store number unknown. 1 photograph, Dan Long and Harold Oldham in front of a building in a patch of flowers.
- Item 48: Begley Drug Store, Jackson, MS
- Store number unknown. 2 photographs, one of the store during its construction and one of a man standing under a Hanging Moss Village sign.
- Item 49: Begley Drug Store, 1969
- Store number 28, Includes Bell Upchurch, Harry Houchens, Lula Coffey, Priscilla Davis, and Charles Hetcher in front of the store.
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