1906 DALLAS TEXAS SCHOOL BOOK DEPOSITORY SOUTHERN ROCK ISLAND PLOW LETTERHEAD

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1906 DALLAS TEXAS LETTERHEAD TEXAS SCHOOL BOOK DEPOSITORY, SOUTHERN ROCK ISLAND PLOW COMPANY. OF COURSE THE SITE OF THE JFK ASSASINATION. ORIGINAL
ORIGINAL 1906 LETTERHEAD OF THE SOUTHERN ROCK ISLAND PLOW COMPANY BUILDING WHICH LATER BECAME THE TEXAS SCHOOL BOOK DEPOSITORY, DALLAS TEXAS.
OF COURSE THIS WAS THE SITE OF THE KENNEDY ASSASINATION IN 1963.
YOU CAN DEFINATELY SEE THIS WHEN COMPARING THE VIGNETTE ON THE LETTERHEAD AND THE MODERN PICTURE. A TRUE PIECE OF HISTORY. ORIGINAL, NOT A COPY.
PRESIDENT: F A HEAD
VP: F B JONES
SECRETARY TREASURER: CHARLES HANEY
SOLD TO: R H NORRIS HARDWARE, CHILDRESS TEXAS
The site of the building was originally owned by
John Neely Bryan
.
During the 1880s, Maxime Guillot operated a wagon shop on the property. In 1894, the Rock Island Plow Company bought the land, and four years later constructed a five story building for the Southern Rock Island Plow Company.
In 1901, the building was hit by lightning and nearly burned to the ground. It was rebuilt in 1903 in the Commercial
Romanesque Revival Style
, and expanded to seven stories. The land was bought in 1937 by
D. Harold Byrd
, who by 1963 had leased it to the Texas School Book Depository.
TEXAS SCHOOL BOOKDEPOSITORY
. The Texas School Book Depository, the building identified by the Warren Commission's report on the
Kennedy assassination
as the location from which
Lee Harvey Oswald
shot the president, is at 411 Elm Street in downtown Dallas and is now the Dallas County Administration Building. The building has seven floors and a basement and forms a 100 by 100 foot square with 80,000 square feet of space. The Sixth Floor, on the floor Oswald is said to have used, has been made into a memorial to President John F. Kennedy.
The site of the building was originally owned by
John Neely Bryan
and during the 1880s
Maxime Guillot
operated a wagon shop on the property. In1894 the Rock Island Plow Company bought the land and four years later built a five story building on the property for the
Southern Rock Island Plow Company
,its Texas division. A fire caused by lightning destroyed the original building in 1901, and the plow company rebuilt the present building, in the commercial Romanesque Revival style, on the old foundation by 1903. In 1937 the Carraway-Byrd Corporation bought the property but defaulted on the loan, and the property was bought by Col.
D. Harold Byrd
.
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ORIGINAL, LETTERHEADS, BILLHEAD, BILLHEADS, HARDWARE.