Name/Title
Print, PhotographicEntry/Object ID
1948.021.0149Description
Black & white print. Snapshot. Mounted on brown matboard. Image of the interior of a hardware store. Cluttered interior. Floor to ceiling shelves on right wall filled with merchandise. Counters & display cases in front of shelves & heating stoves in front of counter. Shelves of buckets, lights & other merchandise on left wall; cook stoves in front; buckets in rafters.
Four men - two at right & two at center. Black ink numbers on or near each man for identification. Written on lower mat in black ink: "1. J.A. Bennet 2 Ed Bennett 3 Tom Reid" "Bennett Hardware"
Written on back: [black ink] "Copied by State - Mounted"; [pencil] "Neg No. 6642" [pencil on white adhesive label pasted to back] Interior Hardware Stores".
Stamped on back in black ink: "Neg No.[black pen] 6642" "Print No. [black pen] 93".
Post it removed from back 5/27/09: "Page 37 picture 6".
Mounted on acidic matboard. Cut down from original size - top edge uneven & rough; upper left corner torn & surface missing. Mat warped. Edge & corner torn & surface missing. Mat warped. Edge & corner damage. Mat front slightly soiled. Image surface slightly soiled & scuffed.
One glossy copy print: Typed on adhesive tag on back: "Bennett Hardware Store, Rawlins J. A. Bennett, Ed Bennett, Tom Reid"
Stamped in black: "Copy provided by the Wyoming State Archives & Historical Department"
Good condition. Wrinkled, small indents top left, emulsion impacted. Size 5 x 7"Collection
Photograph Collection