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Photograph of A. Schwab store front on 163 Beale St. advertising a sample sale. Four individuals are in the photograph and are unidentified.

This is a photograph of the storefront at 149 Beale, the second location of A. Schwab Trading Co.

Abraham Schwab, the store's founder, stands in the center of the photograph with his hand on the post.

The young boy, second from the left and in…

The photograph is of a crowd in front of A. Schwab Trading Co. located on 163 Beale St. Memphis, Tenn.

The photograph is dated June 1922 before the store's expansion into 165 Beale St., which housed a Piggly Wiggly.

This photograph is of the storefront of the A. Schwab Trading Co. on May 5, 1950. Displays in the front windows include merchandise on sale and the latest blues records of the time period.

In the fourth window from the left on the second floor,…

Image of people standing outside of A. Schwab's Dry Goods store after a riot erupted during a Sanitation Workers' strike march that was lead by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., March 28, 1968. The march was intended to be a peaceful, non violent event…

Image of the A. Schwab storefront at 163 Beale St. after the march that turned into a riot, March 28, 1968. The march was organized by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and was intended to be a peaceful, non violent event and devolved when marchers reached…

Image of the A. Schwab storefront at 163 Beale St. after the march that turned into a riot, March 28, 1968. The march was intended to be a peaceful, non violent event and devolved when marchers reached Beale St. where windows became broken and…

An Air Mail envelope to Sam Schwab on business in New York City. The contents of the letter include two hand written letters from Leo, Abram, and Elias Schwab about different goods being recieved at the store. The exact author of the letters is…

A bill of sale for items sold by S. & A. Rosenbaum & Schwab to Mr. F.B. Harris.

The location of this store was at No. 106 Broadway in Paducah, Kentucky.

The item is a black and white photograph that is of a young male wearing boxing gloves. On the front of the photograph the male has been labeled "Eddie." One the back of the photograph Morris Goldstein has written, "Do you remember him? This was…