Some cool business register images:
NRHP #94001265 Randecker's Hardware Store (1909)
Image by chicagogeek
Don't ask me why this particular building is on the NRHP.
William Randecker was a German immigrant who settled in Bloomindale, IL and started his own hardware store in 1909. The business remained open and family-owned until Randecker's nephew's death in 1976. The building is now used by an insurance company.
Overton Hygienic Building (1922)
Image by chicagogeek
NRHP #86001091
3619-27 S. State Street
Chicago, IL
Architect: Z. Erol Smith
From the Chicago Landmarks Website: "Built by noted entrepreneur Anthony Overton as the headquarters for the Overton Hygienic Company, which was one of the nation's foremost producers of African-American cosmetics. This four-story structure also housed several of Overton's other business ventures, including the Victory Life Insurance Company and Douglass National Bank, the first nationally chartered, African-American-owned bank. Offices on the second floor were rented to area physicians, lawyers, music producers, and architects. It is one of nine structures in the Black Metropolis-Bronzeville Historic District."
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overton_Hygienic_Building
