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Description: | This photograph shows a customer in a London Co-operative Society (LCS) supermarket being shown a Co-op credit card in 1978. Credit cards were first issued in Britain in 1966, allowing people to spend money on credit. The cards rapidly gained popularity, with nearly ��500 billion being spent on credit cards each year by the end of the century. | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/ | Publisher: | Bishopsgate Institute | Rights holder: | Bishopsgate Institute | Subjects: | Home and Family | Temporal: | 1978 | Source: | Bishopsgate Institute | Identifier: | http://www.20thcenturylondon.org.uk/rser... | Go to resource |
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