Poehl and sons' drugstore, Saint Petersburg (Wikimedia Commons)
photograph · 2007
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SUMMARY
Archive record for the case's object image. The Wikimedia Commons file (File:Poehl's drugstore in Saint Petersburg.JPG, 3072 x 2304 px, taken 22 October 2007, Public domain) is described as 'Poehl and sons' drugstore'. The image is a modern colour photograph of the surviving building, not period imagery; the caption states the photograph date so the image is not mistaken for a contemporary view. The building's identity as the Poehl (Pel) pharmacy rests on the Commons record. Provenance: this is a Commons-hosted modern photograph of a surviving building; a dated search on 30 May 2026 of the four supported institutional archives (Wellcome Collection, Library of Congress, BnF/Gallica, and the Wikimedia Commons gateway) returned no institutional holding record for this photograph, which is expected for a 2007 street photograph, so the Commons record is the best available provenance (accepted residual). Rights read from the Commons file record (LicenseShortName 'Public domain').
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This is the source record for the case’s object image, a 2007 photograph of the surviving Poehl (Pel) pharmacy and apartment house on the 7th Line of Vasilyevsky Island in St. Petersburg, the building that housed Poehl’s pharmacy, organotherapeutic centre, and pharmaceutical factory. It is used as a present-day view of the enterprise’s premises and is captioned as a modern photograph. The image is in the public domain.