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[Grand Opening of T.A. Kilgore Grocery Store]

Description: Photograph of the grand opening of the T.A. Kilgore Grocery Store in League City. Inside the store, a huge crowd of people swarms underneath signs advertising in-store sales and featuring related illustrations and photographs. Visible amongst the crowd are products in stacks on the sale floor.
Date: 1947
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: League City Helen Hall Library

Car Dented with Bricks After Tornado

Description: Photograph of a car badly dented with bricks after the Higgins/Glazier, Texas Tornado. Behind the car is a row of damaged store fronts. The signs on the stores read, "Weis Dry Goods Company" and "Slack and Wassenmiller Grocery and Market". In the background on the left side of the frame is a group of men with a ladder and a man on top of the store's awning. On the right side of the frame behind the car is a group of men in hat and a boy carrying a broom.
Date: April 9, 1947
Creator: McCurry, J. W.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Wolf Creek Heritage Museum

[Photograph of Police Car and Debris]

Description: Photograph of an old police car in front of a row of damaged storefronts after the Higgins/Glazier, Texas tornado. The signs on the stores read, "Weis Dry Goods Company" and, "Slack and Wassenmiller Grocery and Market". In the background are three cars with three men in jackets and hats standing beside them. In the foreground are scattered pieces of wood.
Date: April 9, 1947
Creator: McMurry, J. W.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Wolf Creek Heritage Museum

[Photograph of Texas Town After Tornado]

Description: Photograph of a row of damaged buildings after the Higgins/Glazier, Texas tornado. A sign on one building reads, "Weis Dry Goods Company" and another reads, "Slack and Wassenmiller Grocery and Market". In front of the stores are five cars and one truck. There are eight men standing by the vehicles, all wearing jackets and all but one wearing hats.
Date: April 9, 1947
Creator: McMurry, J. W.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Wolf Creek Heritage Museum

[Exterior View of a 7-Eleven Store]

Description: Photograph of a view of a 7-Eleven store. There are no cars in the parking lot. Across the top of the building is a sign for 7-Eleven, and advertisements for food, ice, meats, and ice cream. a bin in the front has "ice cold beer."
Date: November 13, 1947
Creator: Mears, Dewey G.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Austin History Center, Austin Public Library

[Photograph of Men Cleaning Tornado Debris]

Description: Photograph of a group of six to nine men cleaning debris after the Higgins/Glazier, Texas tornado. On the right side of the frame is a large truck. The men are throwing a pile of bricks into the back of the truck. The license plate on the truck reads, "Farm Truck RB3207 Texas 47". The men wear jackets and some wear hats. In the background is another commercial truck and the brick side of a damaged store with a sign that reads, "Weis Dry Goods".
Date: April 1947
Creator: McCurry, J. W.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Wolf Creek Heritage Museum

Lomis Slaughter

Description: Man dressed in suit, tie and hat standing in a grocery warehouse. Lomis Slaughter owned and operated Slaughter Grocery Stores.
Date: October 25, 1947
Creator: Douglass, Neal
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Austin History Center, Austin Public Library
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