About the Columbia Pike Documentary Project - "The Pike is the lens, but the picture is so much bigger than that...The Pike looks like the future; it looks like the world..." The Pike has been a mecca for new immigrants to the United States. They've come from everywhere: from Mali, Ethiopia, and the Sudan; Mongolia and throughout Southeast Asia; El Salvador, Guatemala, Ukraine, Egypt, , Azerbaijan, Bolivia... the list goies on and on. The Spirit...

Ruth Levin donated these photographs in the 1990s. The collection has photographs of the Sher family and two family businesses. One of the businesses was M. Sher & Sons General Merchandise located at the corner of Columbia Pike and Walter Reed Dr. The other business was Columbia Hardware and Applicance Company. The collection includes both interior and exterior photographs for each store. Most of the photographs are identified.