[Photograph of Barbee Butane and Appliance Company]

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Photograph of the interior of Barbee Butane and Appliance Company, with displays of small appliances in the middle of the room, and refrigerators, stoves, and other larger appliances lining the walls.

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1 photograph : negative, b&w ; 5 x 7 in.

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Rogers, J. R. 1949.

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Photograph of the interior of Barbee Butane and Appliance Company, with displays of small appliances in the middle of the room, and refrigerators, stoves, and other larger appliances lining the walls.

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1 photograph : negative, b&w ; 5 x 7 in.

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Dee R. Barbee (1889-1964), his son Durwood (1909-1988), and his son-in-law Don Bramlett (1912-1991) built a network of businesses in Dublin on Grafton St. between Blackjack and Elm. Barbee started a used implement business on Elm in 1937, then moved into a rock building on the corner in 1943. They sold John Deere tractors and implements and bought the building that had been the Utterback-Harris farm implement department on the west side of Grafton St. The grand opening was July 14, 1945. They started selling Maytag washers and other appliances there, and in 1948 they modernized the old implement building and several others across the street, including the Pontiac dealership, old firehall, butane and appliance business, and filling station and garage. The grand opening for all the modernized buildings was in 1949, and Ralph Rogers made exterior and interior photographs.

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Rescuing Texas History, 2014

Rescuing Texas History collects photographs, newspaper articles, letters, postcards, and other historical materials from across the state and beyond to document and preserve the rich history of the state.

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Ralph and Dossie Rogers Historic Image Collection

These 19th- and 20th-century images from the Cross Timbers area of Central Texas include, but not limited, to Erath, Hamilton, Hood, Somervell, Palo Pinto, Comanche, and Eastland Counties.

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Rogers, J. R. [Photograph of Barbee Butane and Appliance Company], photograph, 1949; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth531550/: accessed May 20, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Dublin Historical Museum.

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