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Weller's Hotel Supply and Gift Shop Records, 1914-1990
DESCRH'TION
Wellet's Hotel Supply and Gift Shop was started by George Walker Weller and his wife Pansy Sawyer
about 1901 near the comer of College and Pearl Streets in Beaumont. George Walker had been selling
pots and pans on the street prior to opening his store. He was bom in 1883 in Russellville, Kentucky, but
was a Beaumont resident for most of his life and was considered one of Beaumont's first entrepreneurs.
The Weller's Hotel Supply and Gift Shop was located at a number of locations over its years of business
including at 495 Fannin Street. The Weller's Hotel Supply and Gift Shop grew to offer a large inventory
including glassware, dinnerware, silverware, china, hotel equipment and supplies, home furnishings, and
domestic and imported gifts for wholesale and retail. George Weller managed the store with his sons F.R.
and John Weller until his retirement in 1978. The store continued to ran after George WellePs retirement.
This collection contains business record books for the Weller's Hotel Supply and Gift Shop including cash
journals, charge books, ledger books, inventory ledgers, and memo books.