Metal sign for H. S. Myers General Merchandise store at Tyson's Corner
Signs and signboards
Tysons Corner (Va.)
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metal sign
English
Petrified wood
Trees, Fossil
Tysons Corner (Va.)
A piece of petrified wood found at Tyson's corner in the late 1960s.
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1 million - 100 million years old
Myers property at Tyson's Corner
Tysons Corner (Va.)
Myers property at Tyson's Corner
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early 1900s
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Husking corn
Corn
Tysons Corner (Va.)
Four women standing in front of a horse drawn wagon filled with corn. On the left side of the image there is a man feeding corn into a machine that will cut the corn and move it to the top of a silo.
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Husking corn
Corn
Tysons Corner (Va.)
Three men are husking and moving corn with the help of a machine. The larger contraption they are using is an ensilage cutter and silo filler. The men are feeding corn into the machine which cuts the corn and blows it to the top of the silo. The side of the silo is visible on the left hand side of the image.
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Two riders on horseback outside of a store at Tyson's Corner.
Tysons Corner (Va.)
Two riders on horseback outside of a store at Tyson's Corner.
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photograph
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Engine used at Tyson's Corner
Tysons Corner (Va.)
Engine used at Tyson's Corner.
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Myers store - Tyson's Corner Garage ephemera
Tysons Corner (Va.)
Two pieces of ephemera created as advertising for Tyson's Corner Garage. One is a pink notepad with a calendar on the back of it. The second item is a wooden fuel gauge.
The Novelty Adv. Co., Coshocton, O.
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1920s
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Fossil log found at Tysons Corner may aid science
Trees, Fossil
Tysons Corner - Fairfax, (Va.)
Newspaper article from The Evening Star reporting on the finding of petrified wood at Tyson's Corner.
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April 27, 1967
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newspaper clipping
English
TYSO_petrifiedWood_news
Inside the Myers Store at Tyson's Corner
Tysons Corner - Fairfax, VA
Inside the Myers general store at Tyson's Corner. Frank Myers (glasses), Charlie Myers (far right).
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