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Bossert's Hardware Store

ca. 1895-1900

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Bossert's Hardware Store
  • Title
  • Bossert's Hardware Store
  • Date
  • ca. 1895-1900
  • Identifier
  • 20091110-ocl-0029
  • Source Identifier
  • 2003
  • Description
  • Obadiah M. Bossert's hardware store located at Fourth Street and Maryland Ave. Pictured are Obadiah M. Bossert himself (1847-1921) and his daughter, Ella B. Bossert Hepler (1881-1963). The window announces Bossert's is also a branch of the Home Protective Building & Loan Association of Pennsylvania. The store originally began as a tin shop in 1884, in a location further down Fourth Street. In 1885, Bossert's moved to its present location and became a hardware store. This shop was the first place in Oakmont where radios were available for purchase. Originally from the collection of J. Bossert.
  • Type
  • still image
  • Genre
  • photographs
  • Subject
  • Oakmont (Allegheny County, Pa.)
    4th Street (Oakmont, Pa.)
    Maryland Avenue (Oakmont, Pa.)
    Bossert's Hardware Store (Oakmont, Pa.)
    Hardware Stores--Pennsylvania--Oakmont
    Businesses--Pennsylvania--Oakmont
  • Source
  • Oakmont Carnegie Library Archives
  • Contributor
  • Oakmont Carnegie Library
  • Collection
  • Oakmont Historical Image Collection
  • Rights Information
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