Librarian, NMAH Branch Library,Smithsonian A few things that came up in this library's catalog on general stores: Clark, Thomas D. _Pills, petticoats& plows: the Southern country store(Univ. of Oklahoma Press, 1989 (reprint) this one should still be in prin t Carson, Gerald ; _The old country store (Dutton, 1965) Atherton, Lewis E. ; _Southern country store, 1800-1860 (LSU Press) (this one m ay have been reprinted as well) "Country stores, country fairs, and mail order catalogs: consumerism in rural America" by Thomas Schlereth, in: _Consumer culture and the American home (McFaddin-Ward House, 1989) If its visuals and artifacts you want try: Division of Community Life/Rm 4100/Stop 612/Museum of American History/Washington, D.C./20560; (202) 357-2385; also try the Henry Ford Museum and Greenfield Village in Dearborn, MI. I forwarded the inquiry to the library at the Smithsonian's National Postal Museum %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% %Smithsonian Institution SI Libraries % [log in to unmask] NMAH 5016 Stop 630 % %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%