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[Ice Coolers Containing Beers]

Description: Photograph of four ice coolers with bottled and canned beers in it inside a 7-Eleven store. There is an advertisement that reads "Ice Cold Beer." There are displays and other advertisements in the background.
Date: May 28, 1949
Creator: Mears, Dewey G.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Austin History Center, Austin Public Library

[Three Men Standing Next to Large Ice Coolers]

Description: Photograph of three men standing next to a large ice cooler full of beers in a 7-Eleven store. There are multiple advertisements along the back wall. The three men are wearing work uniforms, and one of them is placing a bottle inside of a paper bag.
Date: May 28, 1949
Creator: Mears, Dewey G.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Austin History Center, Austin Public Library

[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

[Food Store]

Description: Photograph of a grocery store called Town and Country, located on St. Johns Avenue, Austin Texas. The photo is taken from the side of a road, where a full view of the small store and its parking lot can be seen. A single car can be seen parked to the left of the lot, and further to the left a tall sign with the store name can be seen. A large field and several houses can be seen in the background.
Date: March 22, 1963
Creator: Mears, Dewey G.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Austin History Center, Austin Public Library

[Department Store Interior]

Description: Photograph of several aisles of store displays in a department store located at 5621 Inter-regional Highway. In the foreground, a display of stacked chairs and tables can be seen, along with a scooter or bicycle. Each aisle in the background is packed with store goods, and each has a Santa shaped sign posted on it.
Date: November 10, 1961
Creator: Mears, Dewey G.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Austin History Center, Austin Public Library

[Group of men on horseback, including Sheriff George S. Matthews, in front of Barnes and Company Grocers store]

Description: Photograph of a group of men on horseback in front of Barnes and Company Grocers, including George S. Matthews, who served as Travis County Sheriff from 1902 to 1920. Prior to that Matthews was a deputy sheriff. The men are wearing suits and hats, and some are wearing sashes and ribbons. Horses and buggies are visible behind the men on horseback, just in front of the store. Two women on the store's front porch are wearing long skirts and large hats. The Barnes and Company grocery was a two-stor… more
Date: 1900/1901
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Austin History Center, Austin Public Library

[Achilles Grocery]

Description: Photograph of Achilles Grocery as seen from the corner. Located at 16th and Guadalupe Streets. Men are standing in front on the porch, and the sign on the building reads "W.A. Achilles General Merchandise."
Date: 1895
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Austin History Center, Austin Public Library

Shopping center with HEB, Allandale Village

Description: Photograph of a building with the name "H. E. B. Food Stores" on the sign across the roof. The photograph was taken from an empty parking lot in front of the store; the store windows have advertisements written across them. Several people are visible on the roof behind the sign letters and outside the side of the building.
Date: February 25, 1950
Creator: Douglass, Neal
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Austin History Center, Austin Public Library

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

Walker's Austex [beef stew pie display]

Description: Photograph of Walker's Austex Beef Stew Pie display at a local retail fair. The display is a giant beef stew pie with cans of Austex beef stew lining the booth walls. Signs for the product claim "Austex Beef Stew Pie: It's Quick, It's Inexpensive, It's Easy to Serve. Just fill a pie shell with one can Austex Beef Stew" and "An Austex Budget Meal costs less than 50 cents to make an Austex Beef Stew Pie."
Date: March 22, 1952
Creator: Douglass, Neal
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Location: 30.262475 -97.753630
Partner: Austin History Center, Austin Public Library

[Adams Extract display]

Description: Photograph of a D.G. Benjamin Advertising campaign for Adams Extract displayed at a local retailer. A grocer in a white shirt and apron and bow-tie holds up a box of Adams Best, priced fifteen cents. Adams Pure Almond and Pure Lemon extracts retail for twenty-nine cents. Adams Extract is a top-shelf item in the spice aisle above McCormick and Colman's spices and extracts.
Date: July 14, 1956
Creator: Douglass, Neal
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Austin History Center, Austin Public Library

[Libby Products Display with Hula Dancing Girl]

Description: Photograph of a young woman in a grass skirt and lei dancing in front of a display of Libby Hawaiian Week products at a local grocery store in Austin, Texas. Cans of Libby's pineapple juice are visible down the aisle behind the woman. Two young girls are visible at the far end of the aisle; one looks at the cans and the other looks at the dancing woman.
Date: April 4, 1956
Creator: Douglass, Neal
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Austin History Center, Austin Public Library
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