Delivery drivers for the Curtis Feed Company in Mobile stand next to their vehicles, which are decorated in the checkerboard pattern of the Ralston Purina Company, a nationwide animal feed corporation established in 1894 in St. Louis, Missouri.
Feed Store Employees and Vehicles, 1932
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Courtesy of the University of South Alabama Archives
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