pharmacist

Hope the powder worded.

i love the old graphics against the handmade signs.

My Grandfather and grandmother would have known this shop as "daddy Curtis's".

Daddy Curtis was a pharmacist who catered for the poor people of that area of Waterford city. He was a lay preacher in the Baptist church and a most genial and affable man. He was a herbalist who went out the country every week with his daughter to gather herbs for his medicines. She carried the herbs home in her small cart that was tethered to her pet goat.

CailinDeise What lovely "on the ground" information! Thank you. Now have a lovely picture of a goat-drawn cart full of herbs...

No longer standing. You can see the house next door to the left in streetview and the odd single storey door-window-door which used to join that house to the dispensary, but the dispensary itself is gone. Street directories say that Robert Gray worked here at the time of the photo, M.D., Surgeon and registrar of births, marriages and deaths. Here he is in the 1911 census, Physician, J.P., FRCPI, but living in a larger house than this. Living at (presumably above?) the Dispensary in 1911 are Robert Samuel Gibson and family. In 1912, on the record of the birth of son George, Gibson's occupation is given as caretaker. Likewise in 1915 for the birth of daughter Lydia, so definitely living here at the time of this photo. I note that the registrar for those births was indeed Robert Gray!

Clara Millington Dow (29 December 1883 - 26 March 1969) was an English operatic soprano of the early twentieth century. After a concert career, she appeared at the Savoy Theatre in the first repertory seasons of Gilbert and Sullivan operas mounted by the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company in 1906-09, under the direction of the author. She is remembered as one of the last principal sopranos personally trained by W. S. Gilbert at the Savoy. In between engagements with D'Oyly Carte, Dow performed in concerts and operetta. After her retirement from the professional stage, she directed amateur productions of the Savoy Operas until she was in her seventies. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clara_Dow

The caption says "Cora Dow" -- pharmacist and philanthropist. More than you ever wanted to know about her here: www.lloydlibrary.org/scholar/CoraDow%20final.pdf (There's a picture of her on p. 2 -- looks to be the same lady.)

In case that link doesn't work for someone, here's the article cite: Metta Lou Henderson and Dennis B. Worthen, "Cora Dow (1868-1915)--Pharmacist, Entrepreneur, Philanthropist," Pharmacy in History 46(3)(2004): 91-105. Interesting story!

At thevirtualdimemuseum.blogspot.com/2009/03/cora-dow-pharma... she is offered as a role model for young women. With another picture that matches this one. The Washington herald. (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, November 28, 1915, FEATURE SECTION, Image 24 chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83045433/1915-11-28/ed-... has a feature on her shortly after her 1915 death. The Seattle star. (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, May 01, 1907, Last Edition, Image 7 chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn87093407/1907-05-01/ed-... has a picture of her in the same necklace/choker.

There's a sad look there....in the eyes(I know they couldn't smile because how long the Dags took)but the eyes....haunting