OTHER RESOURCES
To see additional material from our other digital collections, visit the DIG MEMPHIS Digital Archive. You can find A. Schwab-related material throughout the archive by searching the keyword ‘Schwab’.
Keep up to date with Storyboard Memphis‘ multi-year effort to tell a complete history of Memphis’ longest operating and most famous store. The project will include original content, in print and online, including new interviews, stories, anecdotes, collections, and material from the untapped archives.
Read more about the history of the A. Schwab General Store and see current photographs of the business on the store’s website.
Join Ms. Freda, librarian from the Benjamin L. Hooks Central Library, as she takes us all on a tour of the A. Schwab General Store with Elliot Schwab.
This collection of material represents an early effort to digtize material from the A. Schwab Archives. Compiled by librarians affiliated with the University of Memphis, here you’ll find digitized resources from the store itself, along with items from the University of Memphis Special Collection Department.