George B Evans 1857-1933 - Drug Store Marketing Innovator

Evans's (Iconic) Drug Store - 8th and Arch
FLP Digital Collection

Bulletin of Pharmacy Vol. 17, 1903

Telephone News 1913 - Showing one of Evan's Market Street Stores.

Inquirer 28 Feb 1919





1911 - Showing Evans's 1221 Market Street Store

Printers Ink 29 June 1904

Inquirer 21 Sept 1933

Inquirer 20 Sept 1933 - Death Notice

Pharmaceutical Era, February 1914

- Of note, the death of George B. Evans Jr. in a plane crash during Training at the Naval Air Training Station in Miami in 1918 is perhaps one of the reasons why the Evans's Drug Store brand did not survive to become a 21st century brand like Walgreen's etc. 


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