(Source of picture: Florida State Archives)

The Florida State Archives identifies this as Williams Grocery Store in Jacksonville.  The photo may date from the Thirties or Forties, and the grocery might have been located in an African American neighborhood.  Does anyone know exactly where?  

Perhaps ten or fifteen years before the photo, the Pioneer Grocery Company represented the oldest established grocery store in the Fairfield neighborhood, located northeast of today's Alltel Stadium.  According to the 1927 book Sketches of Jacksonville, Mr. H. Kline served as the proprietor.  Kline moved from New York to Jacksonville in 1906 and became a member of the Masons and other organizations, such as the Y. M. H. A. and the Order of the Sons of Zion.

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