The small shops and the bakeries were necessary part of the people of the villages and county towns. They were also important part of the sight of the settlements. The building in the collection originally was a peasant house of Tápé. In the 1910's a Jewish family bought it and converted the room facing the street into a grocery.

According to a tradesman, Szeged was placed on the map in because of its paprika. The paprika originated in Middle America. In Hungary it became acclimatized in the second half of the 16th century, but was used as a grocery only in the second half of the 19th century. Professionalism, diligence, and the conjecture made the paprika producers the most bourgeois layer of society in Szeged.