Pankratz Paint and Wallpaper
1928
Gresham, Multnomah County, Oregon, United States
A photograph of the interior of Pankratz Paint & Wallpaper, in downtown Gresham. There are shelves of paint cans on the right side of the store, and flags advertising paint brands strung across the room. A note in pen on the top right of the photo says "Ben and Anna, opened 1927."
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- Description
- A photograph of the interior of Pankratz Paint & Wallpaper, in downtown Gresham. There are shelves of paint cans on the right side of the store, and flags advertising paint brands strung across the room. A note in pen on the top right of the photo says "Ben and Anna, opened 1927."
- Provenance
- Donated by Anna Pankratz (nee Lind) in 1983. The Pankratz Paint and Wallpaper store also offered sign painting and picture framing. Ben Pankratz moved to Gresham from Minnesota in 1927, opening the store shortly afterwards. He was one of the charter members of the Gresham Chamber of Commerce. He and Anna married in 1928, and ran the store together for several decades.
- Date
- 1928
- Subject
- Paint industry
- Paints & varnishes
- Stores & shops
- Wallpapers
- Location
- Gresham, Multnomah County, Oregon, United States
- Rights
- http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC-RUU/1.0/
- Identifier
- ghs0805
- Contributor
- Gresham Historical Society
- Extent
- Print, Photographic
- Type
- StillImage
- Item sets
- Gresham Heritage
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