Dry Goods--W.H.H.Hightower

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This picture shows what is conjectured to be a business from either the latest nineteenth, or the earliest twentieth centuries. There appears to be no display window nor door to it, only two posts to hold up the story above. The second story appears to be a clapboard false-front, as the windows and balconet seem only to be painted. Three men stand stiffly inside, one of them by what appears to be a display of straw hats--which perhaps dates the picture to the end of the nineteenth or beginning of the twentieth century. The second story bears the legend DRY … continued below

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This photograph is part of the collection entitled: A. F. Weaver Collection and was provided by the Boyce Ditto Public Library to The Portal to Texas History, a digital repository hosted by the UNT Libraries. It has been viewed 182 times. More information about this photograph can be viewed below.

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This picture shows what is conjectured to be a business from either the latest nineteenth, or the earliest twentieth centuries. There appears to be no display window nor door to it, only two posts to hold up the story above.
The second story appears to be a clapboard false-front, as the windows and balconet seem only to be painted.
Three men stand stiffly inside, one of them by what appears to be a display of straw hats--which perhaps dates the picture to the end of the nineteenth or beginning of the twentieth century.
The second story bears the legend DRY GOODS/ BOOTS SHOES HATS &c.
GENTS FURNISHING DRESS GOODS &c. W.H. HIGHTOWER. Three flags appear to adorn the front.
A holograph on the back reads:
"W.H. Hightower
Grandfather of Mrs. Lyday
& Grady & Rayford Hightower
merchant from Georgia
first settled in Johnson Co.
near Cleburne

located near Lattners [sic]"

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A. F. Weaver Collection

This colorful panorama covers Mineral Wells' founding and its mercurial growth as a resort center and army town to the present. Photos are from local historian and photographer A.F. Weaver, local families and research sources.

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Dry Goods--W.H.H.Hightower, photograph, Date Unknown; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth60912/: accessed April 27, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Boyce Ditto Public Library.

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