With each map, brochure, diary, or photograph we learn more about the highway—what it looked like, who used it, what it was like to drive it.
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Location:
Devil’s Rope Barbed Wire Museum, 100 Kingsley St, McLean, TX 79057
Phone:
(806) 779-2225
Web site: https://www.barbwiremuseum.com/
Institution Type: Museum
Collections
Description: Items from different businesses along Route 66 in the Texas Panhandle, road maps showing stops along Route 66, photographs, a wall of fame with stories from locals who lived on Route 66, and miniature models of two gas stations that were on Route 66 in Alanreed and Shamrock, Texas.
Regions Covered: Route 66 in Texas
Type of Materials: Personal papers, institutional records, published material (books, pamphlets, periodicals, newspapers, etc.), photographs, maps, postcards, scrapbooks, newspaper clippings, oral histories, memorabilia (invitations, programs, souvenirs, etc.), promotional material (posters, brochures, advertisements, etc.), three-dimensional artifacts, local history (biography, business, goverment institutions, etc.), tourism, historic preservation, Dust Bowl history
Time Periods: 20th century
Access
Facility Hours:
Monday-Saturday 9AM-4PM
Online Resources and Finding Aids: None