Print, Photographic

1958.301.0008

1958.301.0008

Name/Title

Print, Photographic

Entry/Object ID

1958.301.0008

Description

Cullen Commercial Company Meat Market. Sign: No Dogs Allowed. Update - 2009: 4 black & white contact prints. Snapshot. Image of the interior of a food store. Black & white checkerboard tile floor. Store decorated for Christmas with wreaths, small trees, streamers, & crepe paper bell hanging from ceiling. Large white light fixture on ceiling. Left side has large display case, refrigerated with milk bottles & other foods on display. Back wall has food displays, another refrigerated case & large group of hanging fowl. Right wall has another display of hanging fowl & display case of meat. Down center are boxes & baskets of what appears to be nuts & potatoes. 1. Written on back in black ink: "Cullen Comm Co. Meat Mkt" Badly stained - liquid damage from reddish substance. Nail hole in upper edge at center. Splotches all over emulsion surface. Lower right corner bent - emulsion cracked; damage to other corners. 8 x 10. 2. Written on back [black ink] "Cullen Comm Co Meat Mkt" [pencil] 'Interior Business". Back soiled & slightly yellowed. Emulsion missing around edges & to right center at top. Emulsion cracked around. Dents in emulsion through center. Emulsion scratched; crazed in places. Front yellowed. 8 x 10. 3. Written on back in blue ink: "Cullen Comm Co Meat Market" Paper yellowed. Back soiled. Front soiled & scratched. Edge & corner damage. 8 x 10 4. Written on back in pencil: "Cullen Co Meat Market[.] Cullen bldg on corner of 4th & Cedar. Page 36, Pic 2" Corner & edge damage - emulsion missing in places. Upper right corner bent - emulsion cracked. Irregular emulsion; scratched. 8 x 10

Collection

Photograph Collection