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[Businesses in the Five Points Neighborhood]

Description: Photograph of two-story business fronts along a street in the Five Points neighborhood in El Paso, Texas. The building on the right has "El Paso Conservatory" written over its top row of windows. Businesses in the first story include Douglass Bros. hardware store and Wayne M. Tinkler & Co.'s appliance store.
Date: 1949
Creator: Escontrías
Partner: El Paso Public Library

Merchandise-Cabinet

Description: Patent for a cabinet made up of concave bins to hold merchandise such as nails. The cabinet also has a removable chute for filling the bins with merchandise.
Date: June 13, 1911
Creator: Montgomery, Franklin M.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

[Ad for Silliman Hardware & Grocery Co.]

Description: Ad, which was in the Palestine Daily Herald for Silliman Hardware and Grocery Company, a business in Palestine which was founded in 1871. It was one of the largest hardware stores in the region toward the end of the 19th century. Proprietor was John H. Silliman and he and his family resided at 638 S. Magnolia.
Date: 1880~
Partner: Palestine Public Library

Robinson Street, Looking North From Grand Avenue. Oklahoma City, Okla.

Description: monochromatic reproductionof a painting on a postcard showing Robinson Street, looking north from Grand Avenue in Oklahoma City, Okla. The correspondence reads, "Hello Pap: I am having a fine time, wish I could stay a month but will be home Wed. Lovingly, Rose". It is addressed to Mr. Alf. bassano, 527 So. 18th Street, Paris, Texas. It is postmarked Oklahoma, Okla. on Aug 25, 1907.
Date: unknown
Partner: Private Collection of Joe E. Haynes

[Ketelsen & Degetau Store in Flames]

Description: Photograph of the Ketelsen & Degetau Hardware store in Ciudad Juarez engulfed in flames. The store is said to have been destroyed by Pancho Villa's troops on the second day of the Battle of Juarez, May 9, 1911.
Date: May 9, 1911
Creator: Aultman, Otis A., 1874-1943
Partner: El Paso Public Library

[Fifth and Main]

Description: Photograph of Fifth and Main Streets in Orange, Texas, looking south. First National Bank is to the right and the Wells Fargo Office is to the left. Horse-drawn carriages are in the street.
Date: 1915~
Partner: Heritage House Museum

[Western Windmill Company, Interior Counter]

Description: Photograph of the interior of the Western Windmill Company, a hardware store on Main Street in Midland. Display shelves are placed along the left walls and along the middle of one the store's aisles, and a large shelf of merchandise is along the right wall. Lamps hang from the ceiling, and buckets and other implements are placed atop the shelf of merchandise. Five men stand between the shelves: from left to right, E. J. Mumford, a "windmill man" (unidentified), John Tolbert, another "windmill m… more
Date: unknown
Partner: Midland Historical Society

[Photograph of Higgins Tornado Damage]

Description: Photograph of the destroyed Laubhan and Schwab Hardware store after a tornado. The ground is covered with wreckage, including wooden planks and beams, tables and chairs. Four men in jackets and hats stand on top of the wreckage in the center of the photo. Shelves remain standing in the background. Across the bottom are the words, "Laubhan & Schwab Hdwe. Bring on the Bulldozer."
Date: 1949
Partner: Wolf Creek Heritage Museum

[Interior View of General Store]

Description: Photograph of an interior view of a general store, also identified as Lee Hardware store in Mobeetie, Texas. One man is standing beside a stack of metal buckets. Another man is leaning against a glass display counter. In the foreground, there are barrels and stacks of buckets on the ground, and corn cobs hanging from a post. In the background, there are various products, including wooden chairs and ceramic dinnerware.
Date: unknown
Creator: Born, Julius
Partner: River Valley Pioneer Museum
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